People are great, leadership is terrible - Software Engineer Lyft Employee Review

3.0
15 Aug 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I came to Lyft for mentorship, ownership and to improve my engineering skills. Overall I think that was achieved but the quality of the overall environment has been trending downwards the entire time I’ve been here. Coworkers are great, you work with some truly smart people Good work life balance Ownership of your projects

Cons

Constant thrash in priorities from leadership, cannot stick to a strategy for more than 1 or 2 quarters. Expectations of growth even though there’s not much scope past senior. Currently seeing a lot of burnout and attrition.

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5.0
21 June 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 June 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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