Not positioning to be a tech company anymore - Senior Software Engineer Lyft Employee Review

3.0
Sep 17, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you know your stuff and land on the right team, WLB and effective hourly pay quite good People are generally nice

Cons

The company is moving in the wrong direction for technical folks. If you want to progress solidly into or past a senior level (and be recognized as such by other companies), you're going to have a hard time. Energy of the company is pretty low. Feels like things move at big-tech levels of slowness without the stability. Lingering doubts about job security and company's long-term growth. Some teams cut too deep. If you're joining a team with a couple of folks, prepare to have all your time taken up by ops load.

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5.0
May 7, 2026
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Pros

Good opportunities for career growth

Cons

Understaffed: not enough people to deliver on roadmap

1.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

You can make over $100 per day most of the time and you meet some nice people for the most part.

Cons

They stop paying you what you earn out of nowhere, then play dumb about it. All reps are Indian and very dismissive. The in app gps glitches constantly and sends you everywhere via the interstate, which forces you to spend more on gas. Riders make things up to get a free ride, which leads to the driver getting deactivated.

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