No longer a great place to work post Covid - Software Engineer Lyft Employee Review

2.0
30 Nov 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- There's lots to do, never bored - Coworkers are smart, capable, and hardworking (eng + product) - Competitive total comp (before decline in stock price)

Cons

- Questionable leadership, constant re-orgs & change in direction - No engineering leadership - Very prescriptive, document heavy, process heavy culture - No culture. No social events. I hardly know the people I work with. I don't know others in my org. - Extremely high turnover - Had poor experiences with promotion / review process

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5.0
21 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Meaningful projects. Good science community environment. Good work life balance.

Cons

Company's primary focus is still on ride-sharing business so stock price does not go up.

4.0
29 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Academic environment that has a lot of interesting science problems from mapping, optimization, plus all the usual user metrics. Rewarding and complex problems that often have a lo t of tradeoff.

Cons

For how good the ICs are, leadership is equally bad. Just riddled with poor decisions top/down. Also given the current state, Uber is just too strong of a competitor and you feel that pressure every day.

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