Great Tech, Chaotic - Staff Software Engineer Lyft Employee Review

3.0
5 Aug 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Amazing tech - Smart helpful people

Cons

- Organizational thrash - Too much going on at once, leads to chaos, no true vision unifying LOBs - A lot of decisions become political

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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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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