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      Lyft reviews

      3.8

      71% would recommend to a friend

      (2,149 total reviews)
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      David Risher

      62% approve of CEO

      51% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.0

      Senior management

      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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      2K reviews
      1.0
      Oct 18, 2018

      Terrible. Two words. Politics and shadiness.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Free food and ride credit. HQ spoils employees. Catered lunch. It’s insane.

      Cons

      Politics. If they don’t like you, your career is over. They will get you fired without a second thought. If you speak up and have integrity, this job isn’t for you. They want YES people no matter what is being asked of you. No communication with upper management.

      1.0
      May 6, 2018

      Disappointed

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good benefits Young energy. Cool looking office.

      Cons

      Salaries below market rate. Lack of career growth opportunities. Lack of Transparency. Middle Management does not exemplify the Executive credos or values. Heavy culture lacking in collaboration. Too many people want the credit for being the one with the new idea, as a result backstabbing and deceit run rampant through parts of the organization. Lots of disorganization throughout certain teams. This is still very much a disorganized startup, even if they portray themselves as a real company.

      5.0
      Apr 1, 2016

      Great company to work at as an engineer

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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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