Lyft reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(2,149 total reviews)
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David Risher

62% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Lyft has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,149 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lyft employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2K reviews
4.0
Jun 30, 2015

Could do better

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Free lunch/food - Commuter benefits (although you could pay $250 for a monthly parking spot) - Young/friendly office culture

Cons

- Not enough experienced direct managers - Scrambling to solve issues --- very reactionary vs. proactive - Embarrassingly low pay - Not many opportunities to move up

1.0
Aug 12, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Onboarding process is the best I have ever had - The experimentation framework is decent - Some strong engineers and data scientists - Compensation and benefits are great, though RSUs are not promising

Cons

- Pink flavor of toxic Uber - obvious because a lot of folks here are ex-Uber. - Company will never be profitable - Engineers & PMs here are arrogant, toxic and political. They browbeat each other, torpedo each other's work, gossip, yell, falsely blame each other etc. This is the only company I have worked where the politics exists at the engineer/PM-level. Because the management is desperate to retain talent, if you are smart & arrogant you will be shielded at the expense of other employees. - The arrogance of the engineers does not match their talent level. Merely clever engineers, but lacking in maturity, experience and intellectual humility. If they worked at a place like Google, they will be humbled in a day. - My PM was a plagiarist and dating another PM in the same team, leading to all kinds of weird interactions but HR and upper management would not fix it. - Token DEI hires who do not meet the bar.

3.0
Sep 25, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent hourly rates and salary.

Cons

Benefits package declines year over year. Still offers health, vision, dental, 401k, but reduced quality of transportation reimbursement and nixed cell phone reimbursement among other perks that existed earlier in the company's history in favor of investors after the IPO.

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