Lyft Software Developer reviews

3.9

68% would recommend to a friend

(140 total reviews)
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David Risher

80% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Lyft with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 140 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Lyft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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140 reviews
5.0
Nov 6, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The most friendly and rewarding working experience I've ever had! I had the opportunity to work on exciting projects. I collaborated with top engineers and designers in the field. My work had a big impact. Competitive salary and perks. Awesome office space.

Cons

If I had to pick one, it might be that everything is moving and changing very quickly due to Lyft's incredible growth.

5.0
Mar 20, 2017

Like it very much

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great work culture, talented people, good work of balance. Cool working environment. Flexible working time, lunch & snack ... there are so much amazing thing

Cons

It would be wonderful if 401K match can be provided, Large Meeting rooms are not enough, other than that, everything is good

5.0
Apr 1, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Great team - good at what they do and fun to be with. I look forward to seeing my team at work. Most of the people at lyft are very friendly, willing to help you, and better socially than the stereotypical engineer. - High technical quality. There are some very good engineers at lyft who I can learn from - Fast paced: there aren't many organizational barriers (opposed to a larger company) to shipping code. You don't need to go through a hierarchy to get an idea across. At the same time, there are enough infrastructure (definitely could be better but better than nothing) that you can mostly focus on your job (assuming you're not an infrastructure engineer) instead of figuring out your environment (eg: why deploys don't work, problems with data platform..) - High impact to effort ratio. There were 4 server engineers on my team (2 at one point) and we shipped a completely new product. - Good comp (good enough that I never think about this. I only remembered when I had to rate my compensation down below)

Cons

- Development environment can still be improved. - A few teams need to work quite long hours so work life balance is harder to get right.

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