Looks are Deceiving: Toxic Leadership Culture - Anonymous employee Lyft Employee Review

2.0
12 Jun 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Great Corporate Benefits - Caring colleagues on a personal level - Socially minded culture - Inclusivity, Allyship, and Peer Support

Cons

- Hands-down the most toxic culture in terms of leadership, especially within the Rideshare org. - Credit for contributions made is taken by those who didn't do or contribute to the work. - Agreeable incompetence is awarded and promoted over legitimate experience or expertise—the folks getting promoted are rarely qualified for the role. - The HR and Employee Relations orgs are openly biased towards preserving leadership interests and headcount over the supporting individual contributor reports of issues, harassment, or inequitable treatment. - Performance and promotions are evaluated based on how happy you make your assigned stakeholders—not on actual job performance or contributing to the mission of the company. - Does not truly support a remote workforce model—openly biased towards working in an office over-investing in the technology and systems to enable distributed workforce success.

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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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