Business Model, Market, and Competitive Landscape Questions
Understanding how a company makes money and where it sits in its market: its customers, core lines of business, key revenue and growth drivers, and the competitors, industry trends, and category dynamics that shape its position. Covers discussing what makes the business succeed, where it faces pressure or threats, and how its offerings compare to alternatives. Signals commercial and market awareness beyond the candidate's own function, showing they can reason about both the company's internal economics and its external environment.
Propose three ways Lyft can partner with cities to reduce traffic congestion while still growing its business. For each, identify the likely city stakeholder, expected benefit to the city, and benefit to Lyft.
Describe how Lyft might use partnerships with public transit agencies to improve first/last-mile connectivity. Provide two product-level integrations and how you'd measure their success.
Explain what Lyft Business is and name three types of enterprise customers that benefit from Lyft's corporate mobility solutions. For each, provide one specific use case.
Lyft wants to improve marketplace pricing by introducing machine-learned demand forecasts. Describe the data pipeline, model inputs, model outputs, how these outputs feed into pricing, and safety checks to prevent price spikes or bias.
Lyft considers launching a long-term strategic partnership with an EV charging network to accelerate EV driver adoption. Create a high-level business case that covers costs, benefits, incentives for drivers, expected timeline to ROI, and potential regulatory hurdles.
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