Don't believe the hype: it's not the place you want to work - Anonymous employee Lyft Employee Review

1.0
23 Oct 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is competitive and benefits are generous. Friday booze (if that's your jam). Equity is generous and looks like it'll be worth something soon.

Cons

Worst presence and execution of in office politics of any office I've ever worked at. It's not that things are overtly political and tedious, but that people don't even know how to be political effectively. It's sort of embarrassing. Slowest moving tech company I've ever worked at. The amount of hoops that you have to jump through are similar to large, old companies. Death by Power Point. Clandestine culture that's also poorly executed. People try to do a lot of work in the dark and change org structures in secret, but the secret always gets out, people always get nervous, and the execution is just horrific. Management is generally weak (although there are good individual contributors). Lots of people who were good ICs and just happened to be old timers end up in leadership roles even though they are really bad leaders. This is pretty prevalent in marketing, analytics, operations, and product. Think of large company process and progress with start up chaos. Tools are weak. Inability to focus on most important problems. For 60% of the teams at Lyft, I could not ever recommend joining.

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Cons

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Pros

Discovering parts of Las Vegas I wouldn't normally visit. Meeting nice people from all over the Valley and the world.

Cons

With the price of gas right now, my pay for using a mid-sized vehicle averaged out to $8 per hour (before taxes), even after 3 "bonuses." This is less than the Nevada minimum wage of $12. Regardless of what the app tells you, Lyft takes about 2/3 of the earnings for each ride, charging both for the rental and extra fees they claim have to do with the cost of car maintenance. Not sure why maintenance and everyday wear wouldn't be handled by Hertz as a normal part of their fleet ownership, as it would with any other rental. Indeed, if you're doing the Express Driver program, you have to take the car for service after getting a voucher from Hertz. On a different note, the number of riders with no picture or fake names is really high in Las Vegas compared to other places where I've driven. This issue has become a safety concern.

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