Lyft Employee Reviews about "leadership"

Pros

- Culture, people come first. If your miss a metric or a goal. No worries, just hit it next week. - Snacks, daily lunch allowance, MacBooks, feeling of a tech company even if the role is remote. - I worked for scooters and it was Lyft first 4 markets. So it was pretty cool to drive around and say yup those are my scooters! - You get to work with smart people that respect work life balance. Rarely will you see Lyft employees work more than 40 hours. - Good comp and benefits, pay was higher then market. Great stock vesting schedule, Lyft credits (no longer offered), commuter benefits, free health insurance. - Monthly fortnights with JZ and Logan. Its so cool to see the leaders in the company act like normal people. They would answer all sorts of crazy questions at the end! - Severance, I was laid off due to Covid-19 and they provided a solid 10 weeks severance plan. - Overall it was the best employer I worked for.

Cons

- Knowledge, I worked in operations and Lyft doesn’t know anything about physical asset operations. You would constantly be pushing initiatives without a real ROI - No sense of P&L for the market. We would spend $50k on a event to get about $60-70k in revenue. Not sure how this was ok for so long. - There was such less work that people would just make up projects and blow up every channel on slack just to be visible. - Slack, as long as you post messages in important channels. People think your doing your job. - There are like 200+ people on central ops teams supporting about 40 local OM/OLs. When we would go visit HQ, these guys would split up one project into 3 parts, meanwhile at the local level your juggling 1-2 projects + managing the actual operation. This is all happening while HQ is cutting 2-3 local markets every 6 months. - Lyft HQ doesn’t respect people in ops. They think their pink app can solve all challenges. - Higher level leadership would constantly ask us if we needed anything instead of providing actual direction. - Unfair layoffs, my team was laid off from a high potential market while they were currently going to launch a market which would only stay open for 4 months out of the year. Some OLs didn’t have markets for 6+ months and were kept on but my team was laid off. - No hiring freeze, Lyft cut 1000+ employees during covid-19 while still hiring externals. It would have been much cheaper and ethical to check their current talent first then offer externals.

Pros

* Uses lots of off-the-shelf software, only builds new things as necessary * Modern architecture * Good leadership in engineering and elsewhere * Fun culture

Cons

* Still figuring out multi-office dynamics * Not enough people to get everything that needs doing done

Pros

Good learning for engineers emphatic comp when you're hopeful

Cons

no results reorgs leadership and staff+ churn

Pros

Rapidly growing and well funded. Depending on the team you're on, you have the opportunity to make an impact and grow. The $200/month in ride credits is a great perk

Cons

Horrible office politics and inexperienced leadership plagues the company. Too many managers land grabbing and building empires. Senior leadership consists of inexperienced people, many of which haven't worked anywhere before Lyft. Very cheap company in terms of compensation and raises The CEO and President are nice guys but they're not the leaders you want to march into battle for. They're more concerned about being 'woke' than building the transportation solution of the future

Pros

Without a doubt you will never work with better people who are not part of leadership. I have made some incredible friends that I still speak with and see regularly. I have never been employed at a company where that happened. The benefits are by far some of the best I have ever had. Insurance options, PTO, Sick Time, and Commuter Benefits are very generous and start on day one of employment.

Cons

Management is potentially the most inefficient, inept, and ignorant group of people that I have had the misfortune of having as supervisors. Hiring Team Leads who are outside hires with zero experience/background in anything Lyft/Technology/Transportation led to an environment that caused deception and flagrant violations of their own code of conduct. All of this occurred while I was employed at Lyft, sexual harassment, hostile workplace, and discrimination based on sex, race, etc. HR is inefficient and ineffective because the HR persons did not care for, listen to, or protect employees concerns. Those that went to HR were retaliated against by their supervisors with zero fear of consequence. Upward mobility happens only if you are a member of the “Good ole boy” team. Unqualified persons were promoted with regular occurrence. This hiring practice caused a backlog of tickets needing to be seen and resolved. On three different occasions the backlog was reduced to zero tickets with agents in available waiting to take a call. Again because leadership was unable to manage with any effectiveness the backlog would grow again.