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Onsite Went Fine, Hiring Manager Call Was Discouraging

LyftSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Apr 2026

First, the technical screen. It was a sliding window LeetCode hard, but honestly not that hard — it was just 76, Minimum Window Substring. Next came the onsite, three rounds total. The first round was coding. The first 15 minutes were spent talking about past projects, then 60 minutes on the problem, and the last 15 minutes was free-form chat. The problem: given a set of jobs, each with a start t…

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