Increasings politics and lack of process are killing the culture - Anonymous employee Lyft Employee Review

COO came over from Tesla and installed his supporting cast of leadership, which is destroying the culture (just see Lyft's ratings trend from Feb 2018 onwards). Leadership (director level and above) focused on land grabbing, infighting, and territory expansion. Feels like morale is dead after recent re-org that led to layoffs that came out of nowhere right before employees would have vested, and saw those with the loudest voices and most visibility promoted (over merit). Company has two marketing orgs for some reason which leads to unnecessary tension, and aforementioned land-grabbing is a blocker from consolidating and having one cohesive team -- the re-org did nothing to solve this. For a 5,000 hc company, the lack of processes is absolutely SHOCKING -- and then we wonder why there's so much duplicative effort and people feel like others are trying to do their job. We tend to have no work life balance, which would be OK in other fast growth companies but we could avoid this if we were better about planning and processes (kind of important for a 5000 person public facing company)