Product Management Topics
Product leadership, vision articulation, roadmap development, and feature prioritization. Focuses on product strategy and business alignment.
Customer and User Centricity
This topic assesses the mindset, practices, and decision making that prioritize end users and customers when designing, building, and operating products and services. It includes developing empathy through user research, discovery interviews, empathetic listening, usability testing, journey mapping, and personas; engaging customers and stakeholders to surface pain points and constraints such as budget and timelines; translating insights into clear product requirements, hypotheses, prototypes, and experiments; using customer feedback loops and metrics to validate solutions and measure impact; and applying user centered design methods to inform prioritization and trade offs. It also covers advocating for customer outcomes across teams, challenging internal assumptions, balancing short term satisfaction with long term product integrity and strategy, practicing quality oriented thinking such as testing and defect prevention to protect the user experience, and handling disagreements when customers request suboptimal solutions. Interviewers will expect concrete examples showing discovery conversations, evidence driven prioritization, specification of trade offs, measurable outcomes, and examples where technical or product decisions delivered customer value.
Lyft-Specific Product Problems & Analytical Approaches
Lyft-specific product challenges, problem framing, hypothesis generation, and data-driven decision making, focusing on experimentation design, metrics, and feature prioritization within the ride-hailing and on-demand transportation context. Includes product discovery, A/B testing, funnel analysis, and stakeholder alignment to improve rider and driver experiences and marketplace efficiency.
Requirements Elicitation and Scoping
This topic covers the end to end practice of clarifying ambiguous problem statements, eliciting and defining functional and non functional requirements, and scoping solutions before design and implementation. Candidates should demonstrate the ability to identify target users and user journeys, conduct stakeholder interviews, ask targeted and probing clarifying questions, surface hidden assumptions and root causes, and convert vague business language into measurable technical and business requirements. They should capture acceptance criteria and success metrics, define key performance indicators, and translate requirements into testable statements and test strategies that map unit, integration, and system tests to requirement risk and priority. The topic includes assessing technical constraints and operational context such as expected scale, throughput and latency requirements, data volume and read write ratios, consistency expectations, real time versus batch processing trade offs, geographic distribution, uptime and availability expectations, security and compliance obligations, and existing system state or migration considerations. It also requires evaluation of non technical constraints including timelines, team capacity, budget, regulatory and operational concerns, and stakeholder priorities. Candidates are expected to synthesize inputs into clear artifacts such as product requirement documents, user stories, prioritized backlogs, acceptance criteria, and concise requirement checklists to guide architecture, estimation, and implementation. Emphasis is placed on scoping and prioritization techniques, distinguishing must have from nice to have features, conducting trade off analysis, proposing incremental or phased approaches, identifying risks and mitigations, and aligning cross functional teams on scope and success measures. Expectations vary by seniority: entry level candidates should reliably ask core clarifying questions and avoid solving the wrong problem, while senior and staff candidates should rapidly prioritize requirements, anticipate critical non functional needs, align solutions to business impact, and communicate trade offs and timelines to stakeholders.