Lyft reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(2,149 total reviews)
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David Risher

63% 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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4.0
Nov 1, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people are incredible, and the main reason to be in the office. With a handful of exceptions, everyone is smart, caring, and wants the company to succeed. It is a very open culture with blameless incident review process within Engingeering.

Cons

It can be a hard place to navigate and move up if you don't have a good manager (I don't). HR is fairly useless if you want to switch teams and are being roadblocked by your manager. Recruiting is also extremely understaffed and not very effective at getting talent through the pipeline. Compensation across the org is a bit low.

2.0
Oct 30, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The convienient location downtown Lax Dress-code (very laxed) Free Apparel (backpacks,shirts,tumblers,hats etc.)

Cons

If you are a minority good luck being treated equally. Diversity and Inclusion is non existent Way to much disparate treatment

1.0
Oct 23, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is competitive and benefits are generous. Friday booze (if that's your jam). Equity is generous and looks like it'll be worth something soon.

Cons

Worst presence and execution of in office politics of any office I've ever worked at. It's not that things are overtly political and tedious, but that people don't even know how to be political effectively. It's sort of embarrassing. Slowest moving tech company I've ever worked at. The amount of hoops that you have to jump through are similar to large, old companies. Death by Power Point. Clandestine culture that's also poorly executed. People try to do a lot of work in the dark and change org structures in secret, but the secret always gets out, people always get nervous, and the execution is just horrific. Management is generally weak (although there are good individual contributors). Lots of people who were good ICs and just happened to be old timers end up in leadership roles even though they are really bad leaders. This is pretty prevalent in marketing, analytics, operations, and product. Think of large company process and progress with start up chaos. Tools are weak. Inability to focus on most important problems. For 60% of the teams at Lyft, I could not ever recommend joining.

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