Fast paced, great place for an ambitious engineer - Software Engineer Lyft Employee Review

5.0
Jan 6, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Get to work on projects that have a direct impact on passengers/drivers and business bottom line. Everything FEELS important. - Culture of openness: you have opportunities to review and contribute on system designs across the company. Feedback is welcomed. - "You build it, you run it" culture, creates a sense of ownership and improves code quality - Decent deployment process (unit tests, code coverage, CI, monitoring), value placed on code quality. - Company values and gives back to OSS community (check out Envoy) - Good leveling track for individual contributor engineers - Regular company wide meetings to communicate important problems/projects/etc - Diversity/inclusion is a priority for the organization

Cons

- Fast pace is not for everyone. If you come here expecting to coast you might be disappointed.

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Pros

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