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• System designMedium

  Design a Chat/Messaging System

  Design a real-time messaging system like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger that supports 1:1 and group conversations, message delivery status tracking, user presence features…

  Companies: Lyft, Addepar, Airbnb, Airwallex +22

  System Design

  Last reported Nov 2026

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• System designDifficulty not specified

  Design Wikipedia Crawler

  Design a distributed web crawler system that can crawl and store Wikipedia pages at scale using multiple machines or edge devices, with focus on coordination…

  Companies: Lyft, Glean, Google, Meta

  Last reported Nov 2026

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• ML system designMedium

  Dynamic Pricing for a Ride-Hailing Marketplace: Supply-Demand Model, Algorithm, Metrics

  Companies: Lyft

  ML System Design

  Last reported Oct 2026

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• System designMedium

  Design a Charity Donation System with Payments, a Ledger and Payouts to Charities

  Companies: Lyft

  System Design

  Last reported Oct 2026

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• System designDifficulty not specified

  Design a Donations Website

  Design a short-term (24-48 hour) donations website where users can contribute to pre-selected charities, with focus on payment processing, failure handling, and backup payment…

  Companies: Lyft, DoorDash, Whatnot

  Last reported Oct 2026

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• System designMedium

  Design a Wiki Crawler That Keeps Every Stored Page at Most Five Days Stale

  Companies: Lyft

  System Design · System Design Fundamentals

  Last reported Sep 2026

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• System designDifficulty not specified

  Design a product voting system

  Design a voting system that allows users to vote on products, enabling the most popular products to qualify for a deal of the day feature.

  Companies: Lyft

  Last reported Aug 2026

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• CodingHardLeetCode 76

  Minimum Window Substring

  Find the smallest substring of s that contains all characters of t (including duplicates), or return "" if none exists. This is typically solved with…

  Companies: Lyft, Amazon, LinkedIn, Meta +2

  Hash Table · Sliding Window · String

  Last reported Aug 2026

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• System designDifficulty not specified

  Design LeetCode

  Design an online programming judge system for coding competitions where users can submit solutions to algorithmic problems, get real-time feedback on code execution, and…

  Companies: Lyft, Amazon, LinkedIn, Meta +4

  Last reported Jul 2026

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• CodingMediumLeetCode 981

  Time Based Key-Value Store

  Design a time-based key-value store that records multiple values per key with timestamps and returns the value whose timestamp is the largest <= the queried…

  Companies: Lyft, Amazon, Anthropic, Apple +8

  Binary Search · Design · Hash Table · String

  Last reported Jul 2026

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• CodingDifficulty not specified

  Design an in-memory database to handle transactions

  Design an in-memory database system that can efficiently handle transactions. Consider aspects such as data storage, transaction management, and concurrency control.

  Companies: Lyft, Anchorage Digital, Coinbase, Uber

  Last reported Jul 2026

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• CodingDifficulty not specifiedLeetCode 41

  First Missing Positive

  Find the smallest positive integer missing from an unsorted array while meeting O(n) time and O(1) extra space. The classic approach uses in-place index-based placement…

  Companies: Lyft

  Last reported May 2026

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• Behavioral and leadershipDifficulty not specified

  Tell me about a time you promoted inclusion in the workplace

  Companies: Lyft

  Last reported May 2026

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• Behavioral and leadershipDifficulty not specified

  Tell me about something you are most proud of and why

  Companies: Lyft, Google, Robinhood, Roblox

  Last reported May 2026

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• Behavioral and leadershipDifficulty not specified

  What was a situation where you didn't agree with your manager or superior's decision?

  Companies: Lyft, Amazon, Automata, Datadog +6

  Last reported May 2026

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• Behavioral and leadershipDifficulty not specified

  Tell me about a time you disagreed with a cross-functional partner.

  Companies: Lyft, Meta, Oracle

  Last reported Apr 2026

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• Behavioral and leadershipDifficulty not specified

  Tell me about your approach to make conversations more inclusive

  Companies: Lyft, Meta, Microsoft

  Last reported Apr 2026

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• Behavioral and leadershipDifficulty not specified

  What project are you most proud of?

  Companies: Lyft, Adyen, Amazon, Anthropic +37

  Last reported Apr 2026

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• System designMedium

  Design a Job Scheduler

  Design a distributed job scheduler that can handle high-throughput job processing (10,000+ jobs per second), support both scheduled (cron-based) and ad-hoc job execution…

  Companies: Lyft, Airbnb, Apple, Autodesk +25

  System Design

  Last reported Apr 2026

  Open workspace
• System designHard

  Design Instagram

  Photo delivery and social feeds: safe publication, celebrity fan-out, stable pagination, and high-volume interactions.

  Companies: Lyft, Amazon, Bloomberg, Datadog +9

  content-delivery · feed-fanout · idempotency · media-storage

  Last reported Feb 2026

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• System designDifficulty not specified

  Design a Social Media Feed Generation System

  Design a social media feed system that generates and populates personalized feeds for users on platforms like Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.

  Companies: Lyft, Amazon, Apple, Atlassian +5

  Last reported Feb 2026

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• Behavioral and leadershipDifficulty not specified

  What does diversity and inclusion mean to you?

  Companies: Lyft

  Last reported Aug 2025

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• Behavioral and leadershipDifficulty not specified

  Tell me about a time you had a conflict with a coworker. How did you resolve it?

  Companies: Lyft, Adyen, Airbnb, Amazon +31

  Last reported Jul 2025

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• CodingMediumLeetCode 91

  Decode Ways

  Given a digit string, count how many ways it can be segmented into valid codes 1–26 (two-digit codes cannot start with '0'), handling invalid zeros…

  Companies: Lyft, Anduril, Meta

  Dynamic Programming · String

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• System designHard

  Design a system to run commands across a fleet

  Large command fan-out with durable offline delivery, bounded execution, and honest handling of uncertain outcomes.

  Companies: Lyft, Meta

  agent-architecture · backpressure · durable-workflows · failure-detection

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