Lyft product manager interview questions
96 questions asked in Lyft product manager interviews: 39 product design, 21 strategy, 26 metrics, 7 estimation, 1 behavioral, 2 AI & technical. Each has an answer guide, and you can practice any of them in a mock interview.
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Product design questions (39)
- How would you improve the Uber app?Lyft · Product design · Easy
- Design an app for making someone a better cook.Lyft · Product design · Medium
- How would you design at ETA system for Lyft drivers?Lyft · Product design · Medium
- Design Lyft for kids.Google · Product design · Hard
- How would you design a bicycle renting app for tourists?Google · Product design · Medium
- Design a referral system for a grocery app.Google · Product design · Medium
- Give an example of a badly designed product.Adobe · Product design · Easy
- How would you design a car sharing platform like Uber for disabled people?Lyft · Product design · Hard
- How would you improve Uber?PayPal · Product design · Easy
- Design Dynamic Pricing for Lyft.Lyft · Product design · Hard
- How would you improve Uber for a football event?Google · Product design · Medium
- How can Lyft break into the private ambulance market?Lyft · Product design · Hard
- Design Lyft for delivery.Lyft · Product design · Hard
- You have been assigned as the manager to design an incentive structure to the drivers of a cab aggregator. How would design it?Lyft · Product design · Hard
- How do you design the Lyft app for the blind?Lyft · Product design · Hard
- Imagine that you are a product manager at Uber. And you want children to use Uber as an independent user. How would you tackle this problem? Feel free to either build a new app or modify existing app.Lyft · Product design · Hard
- At the end of any event (Sports event, Concerts, New Year Event etc.), there is a rush of people leaving the venue all at once and there is a mismatch in demand & supply for Uber. Surge pricing is not so effective in managing it and it also gets us bad press. You are a PM at Uber and have been asked to solve this problem. What product interventions can you introduce here?Lyft · Product design · Hard
- Design Lyft for deaf drivers.Google · Product design · Hard
- How would you improve video calling on Messenger?Lyft · Product design · Easy
- What are the key Metrics to measure the performance of a company in food delivery business and how can we improve the ones related to churn rate?Google · Product design · Hard
- You are a PM at Lyft. Design a product to assist with patient transportation.Lyft · Product design · Medium
- How would you design an Uber riding pass?Lyft · Product design · Medium
- Design Lyft for large parties.Lyft · Product design · Medium
- You are a PM at Lyft, You are asked to build a product for grocery delivery. How would you build it?Lyft · Product design · Hard
- Design a shared carpool experience for Lyft.Lyft · Product design · Hard
- Design a dashboard for Lyft Drivers. What metrics would you use to measure success of this dashboard?Lyft · Product design · Medium
- Redesign the city parking experience.Lyft · Product design · Hard
- How would you design Lyft for commuters?Lyft · Product design · Medium
- Design the next version of the scheduled rides product to allow drivers to accept scheduled ride requests in advance.Lyft · Product design · Medium
- Imagine you are a PM for UBER for a default pickup location feature. How would you improve this feature?Lyft · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve Uber for a concert/festival?Lyft · Product design · Medium
- Design a contactless ride experience for Uber.Lyft · Product design · Hard
- Design a self drive car rental Mobile app.Google · Product design · Medium
- What would you build to replace service dogs?Lyft · Product design · Hard
- How would you design an app for truck dispatchers?Google · Product design · Medium
- How would you roll out an algorithm improvement for driver matching?Lyft · Product design · Hard
- How would you solve the problem of having more than 6 people ride requests for Lyft?Lyft · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve the post-booking experience on Lyft?Lyft · Product design · Easy
- As a product manager at Lyft, how would you improve overall ride quality for both passengers and drivers?Lyft · Product design · Medium
Strategy questions (21)
- Should Uber Eats be a different app from Uber Rides?Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- Lyft wants to enter the Indian market. What should be the strategy?Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- You own 6 pizza shops in the city and want to improve revenue. Do you develop a mobile app or use Uber Eats?Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- How would you acquire more users for Uber?Lyft · Strategy · Easy
- Lyft wants to add Shared Saving rides. What factors will you consider to determine riders' willingness to pay? What experiments will you run to test your assumptions?Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- Launch Uber in a new city.Swiggy · Strategy · Medium
- What factors need to be considered if you want to launch your product in a new market?Lyft · Strategy · Medium
- You are a PM at Uber. Devise strategies to improve revenue.Swiggy · Strategy · Hard
- How would you design surge pricing for Uber or Lyft?Google · Strategy · Hard
- Should Lyft build ride scheduling functionality?Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- Should Lyft enter the food delivery business?Google · Strategy · Hard
- Design and prepare a go-to-market strategy for a cab scheduling feature for Lyft.Onehouse · Strategy · Hard
- Build and launch Uber for Events. Focus on rides to/from large events (10,000+ attendees) and create a magical experience for riders and drivers.Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- One of the ideas that was added to your backlog is the ride scheduling functionality. Analyze this scheduling feature from the product perspective and make a recommendation whether to proceed to the implementation step.Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- What pricing enhancements can we make to reduce driver rejections?Lyft · Strategy · Medium
- How will you improve the monetization strategy for Uber drivers?Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- If you are CEO of Uber, what should you do next?Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- What would be the strategy to increase Uber's revenue in the taxi in the ride hailing business?Lyft · Strategy · Medium
- You are a PM at Uber and you have to evaluate whether to add "Cash" as a method of payment. How would you decide?Razorpay · Strategy · Hard
- Maximize Lyft's net revenue given the following condition described.Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- You are a PM for Autonomous Rides at Lyft. Lyft is launching self-driving cars in Palo Alto. Due to mapping constraints, you can only enable a limited number of pickup and drop-off locations initially. How would you prioritize them?Lyft · Strategy · Hard
Metrics questions (26)
- Late deliveries lead to customer churn. What data we should look at to prove this hypothesis for a food delivery app?PayPal · Metrics · Medium
- How would reduce cancellations for Uber?Shopify · Metrics · Medium
- There is a data point that indicates that there are more Uber drop-offs at the airport than pick-ups from the airport. Why is this the case and what would you do within the product to change that?PayPal · Metrics · Hard
- How would you measure the success of Uber Ride?Lyft · Metrics · Easy
- If a large number of drivers are dropping out of a particular city, why would it be?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- Drivers are dropping out of a city on Lyft. How do you figure out what's going on?PayPal · Metrics · Medium
- If you were the PM for Lyft, what dashboard would you build to track the health of the app?Google · Metrics · Hard
- How would you increase the average Uber driver rating in your area from its current 4.5?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- As a Product manager at a food delivery app, you observe a downward trend in number of orders fulfilled. How would you identify the root cause??Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- What is the success metric for Airbnb's booking experience?Lyft · Metrics · Easy
- The rider experience with Airport rides is going down. What would you do?Google · Metrics · Medium
- How do you know there are enough drivers for the number of deliveries at any given time and area?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- Assume you are the product owner for Airbnb’s Mobile app and that there is a data point that indicates that there are more mobile web than mobile app users of Airbnb. Please describe why this could be the case, and describe what you would do within the product to change that. Lower fidelity mockups, where applicable, would be helpful.Lyft · Metrics · Hard
- There is a spike in Lyft ride cancellations this week. Why could this be the case?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- What metrics would you use to measure success in designing the estimated time of arrival?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- How would you triage a 10% drop in rider cancellations?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- What would be the next big feature you would launch on Uber to improve Customer Retention and Average Spend?Lyft · Metrics · Hard
- What metric would you track for Lyft's debit card program?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- As a PM for Uber, how will you help riders from forgetting their phone in Uber?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- How would you measure the success of Uber Instant Pay?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- As a PM of Uber, how would you solve the problem of sudden increase in demand of cabs when an event is over?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- Uber is facing a challenge with the increase in cancelled rides especially during peak hours. As product manager, how would you solve this situation?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- You are the product manager for Lyft Direct Debit Card for drivers. The product just launched. How do you build this product's first dashboard?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- What are product success metrics for the Uber Split Fare and how you measure it?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- You are the PM for a certain feature. What dashboard would you build to monitor its effectiveness? What metrics would it include?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- You have to launch an Uber Rider pass in your city. What should be the price of the pass?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
Estimation questions (7)
- You have a grocery delivery service that delivers food within 24 hours. How many trucks would you need to operate it?Google · Estimation · Medium
- What is the market for driverless cars in 2020?Google · Estimation · Easy
- How many drivers does Uber have in a medium sized US city?Lyft · Estimation · Easy
- How would you determine how many trips are taken on the London Underground each year?Lyft · Estimation · Easy
- How would you price a Tier 1 and Tier 2 Uber subscription?Lyft · Estimation · Hard
- How many ride-share trips occur in the US daily?Google · Estimation · Easy
- How much more or less should Lyft pay drivers per trip (by changing Lyft’s take) to maximize net revenue for the next 12 months on this route in Toledo, Ohio? The goal is to find the optimal balance between Lyft's take and driver pay to improve the match rate and reduce failed rides while maximizing net revenue.Lyft · Estimation · Hard
Behavioral questions (1)
AI & Technical questions (2)
- Build a system to predict if something can go wrong in a cab ride.Lyft · AI & Technical · Hard
- Create the algorithm for ridesharing concept for uber pool. Explain the goals, logic, factors considered and success metrics.Lyft · AI & Technical · Hard
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