your standard startup turned giant tech company culture - Software Engineer Lyft Employee Review

2.0
12 Oct 2021
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Pros

• bagel Wednesdays • small engineering teams made it generally easy to do good work • they made efforts to have All Hands be relevant to most people • lunches were pretty good

Cons

• didn't compensate their early employees well • didn't make a point to make up for the poor compensation over the years • later employees with less experience and less knowledge about the company were given many times more in compensation due to the competitive employee market

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5.0
21 Jun 2026
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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
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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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