Software Engineer · Phone Screen · Coding

Lyft — Software Engineer ✅ Passed

Level: Mid-Level

Round: Phone Screen · Type: Coding · Difficulty: 3/10 · Duration: 60 min · Interviewer: Neutral

Topics: API, Data Fetching

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Interview date: 2025-08-15

Summary

I was asked to implement a function to fetch data from a paginated API.

Details

I was given an API fetch_page(page_number) that returns a page of data. Each page contains a list of results data and a next_page_number to fetch the next page. If next_page_number is null, there's no more data.

I needed to implement fetch(n) to fetch at most n data points by calling fetch_page.