Lyft Interview Questions

Debajyoti B. - "Long wait time can be the result of the following issues- park doesnt have a website/app to book tickets/pass park HAS a website/app but doesnt provide any early access (time slots) or premium tickets(not required to stand in a queue) considering avg ride time to be MAX 20 mins, its possible that crew members are not efficient in setting up rides making gap time longer some manual adjustments(time consuming) needed to be done after every ride check whether ALL popular rides have a simi"See full answer

Praveen - "Lyft's mission is to improve people's lives through better transportation. This includes economic opportunities, convenience as well as social impact. As a clarifying question - I will confirm that I was designing this for fully deaf drivers who can't hear and speak. They use visual signals to communicate with the people in their environment. Goal here is to help provide such drivers economic opportunities while increasing the ride-share supply and hence bring better customer experience (low"See full answer

M N. - "Potential ad creators: Brands Drivers Travel services. Goal: To create a revenue stream. Acquire new users? To potentially develop new products? For now, lets focus on generating revenue as the goal. Potential ad products: Ads from brands you can watch while you are riding. Most riders dont look at the app while riding but we can provide them incentives like 5% off next ride if they watch ads the whole ride and pay it via ad revenue. Drivers can pay Lyft to be matched more w"See full answer

Chetak C. - "Probability that one of the coupons is used = 1 - Probability that no coupon is used = 1 - nC0 p^0 * (1-p)^n = 1 -(1-p)^n"See full answer

Akhil S. - "solving too much demand and not enough supply; look at how many users are unable to find a ride within a reasonable amt of time (to be defined) would would increase prices everytime someone doesn't get a ride at small intervals. In a few minutes, the prices would increase to an equilibrium."See full answer

Unicorn 2. - "Here is what I understand from the question. Riders use "scheduled rides" to schedule rides for upto 24 hours in advance. Do drivers see these scheduled rides before? Assuming no. The drivers get matched 30min before the scheduled ride. Possible factors in matching Location of driver Location of rider No. of rides the driver has had? Maybe give preference to new drivers? Scheduled rides are only single party rides (no pool,etc) What is our goal here? Maximi"See full answer

Mark - "Clarifying questions: What's Airbnb goal in making this requirement? Are we talking about the listing for Airbnb's core business - lodging? Approach: Before we dive in, it would be beneficial for us to first discuss our base understanding of Airbnb's business, who are the user segments that this feature can impact, and some hypothesis on what Airbnb's goal should be Once we define the goal of this feature, we can go over our approach on how we will evaluate whether we should make"See full answer

Sai ganapathy S. - "Estimation - Estimate Lyft revenue Modes of Income Revenue through Ads Revenue earned from drivers and ride bookings Premium Subscriptions (Lyft Pink) and Other + subscriptions. Considering US as Lyft's primary market and hence estimating revenue for this market for Lyft Total Population of US : 330 Million Among this 330M, there are Low income families - Families who earn just to make their ends meet. So they won’t be able to afford cabs since it is a bit expensive. Assuming"See full answer

M N. - "Clarifications: What type of food? Let's assume cloud kitchens for this exercise. Lyft's mission: Improve people's lives with the worlds's best transportation. Lyft aims to achieve this in 3 ways: Socially, economically and environmentally. We can see Lyft playing a part in the cloud kitchen ecosystem and create economic mobility. Chef, Food consumer . Lyft is connecting these two users. Usecases: 1) Individual chefs who might be resource-constrained. Eg: Refugees who are skilled but don't"See full answer

M N. - "I'm assuming we are estimating lyft rides taken for attending Halloween parties since the usual daily ride data is already available. Let's assume Lyft is only available in the US. I'm going to start with US population and then estimate the number of people who might be party goers and then deduce number of rideshare users and then estimate how many of them will use Lyft to take them to and from the Halloween party. There are 300M ppl in US. Lets say I break down age groups 1-20, 20-40, 40-60,"See full answer

Prashant R. - "Goal of the pilot deployment: 1) Evaluate if riders would choose self driving cars (SDC) over regular driver operated cars 2) Test SDC performance/efficiency in given area before scaling operations Interviewer liked my goals and asked me to proceed , this is where I got stuck. I wasnt sure if this was an algorithmic based problem or something else and started saying about general issues SDC may have that may impact customer experience such as SDC waiting too long in traffic affecting ETA, SDC"See full answer

Tartan C. - "A transportation system that connects with stakeholders to make the treatment process more predictable and time-effective. Algorithm to send a push to drivers nearby."See full answer

Exponent - "This question is a Diagnosis Question. Let's follow the template for answering Diagnosis Questions: Ask clarifying questions List potential high level reasons Gather context (with TROPIC method!) Establish a theory of probably cause Test theories Give a potential solution Summarize Ask Clarifying Questions Before we begin, it's important to ask clarifying questions if necessary. This question is quite straight forward so we may not have ma"See full answer

Dominique H. - "Starbucks"See full answer