interviewing at Lyft in a few weeks for a senior PM role on their growth team. would love to hear from anyone who's been through the loop recently, especially: what did the PM case study look like? did you get a take-home or is it in the interview? how much do they weight metric/analytics questions vs. strategy questions? anything about the hiring manager round, what's the vibe, is it mostly behavioral?
engineering data is helpful too if that's all you've got. just trying to build a picture of how their process runs these days. drop what you know.
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pm_priya
i went through the PM loop about 8 months ago, different team but probably similar structure. there was a take-home product case (3 days, submitted a doc), then an in-person round with a live case problem. the live case was numbers-heavy. they gave me a metric that had dropped and wanted me to diagnose it. classic PM exercise but they went deep, not satisfied with the first-level answer. come ready to pivot the analysis 2-3 times in the session.
growth_gabe
this is super helpful, 3-day take-home is a big time commitment but at least you know what you're getting. did the take-home prompt have a word limit or was it open format?
pm_priya
open format, they just said "make it as long as it needs to be, no longer." i did a slide deck, about 12 slides. heard others submitted a doc. no one seemed to care about format as long as the thinking was clear.
apm_aisha
i've heard the Lyft PM interview leans heavily on their core product areas: rideshare supply/demand, driver experience, or rider retention. knowing their growth levers well going in matters. they don't love when candidates use generic frameworks without tying back to rideshare specifics.