Lyft reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(2,157 total reviews)
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David Risher

65% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Lyft has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,157 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
2.0
Apr 7, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Free food, good health benefits, Lyft credits, hot brand that has truly untapped potential

Cons

COO came over from Tesla and installed his supporting cast of leadership, which is destroying the culture (just see Lyft's ratings trend from Feb 2018 onwards). Leadership (director level and above) focused on land grabbing, infighting, and territory expansion. Feels like morale is dead after recent re-org that led to layoffs that came out of nowhere right before employees would have vested, and saw those with the loudest voices and most visibility promoted (over merit). Company has two marketing orgs for some reason which leads to unnecessary tension, and aforementioned land-grabbing is a blocker from consolidating and having one cohesive team -- the re-org did nothing to solve this. For a 5,000 hc company, the lack of processes is absolutely SHOCKING -- and then we wonder why there's so much duplicative effort and people feel like others are trying to do their job. We tend to have no work life balance, which would be OK in other fast growth companies but we could avoid this if we were better about planning and processes (kind of important for a 5000 person public facing company)

2.0
Apr 3, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible hours, not micro managed

Cons

Not organized, on an island by yourself, no exposure to fellow peers in other markets, everything is segregated, everyone is only trying to make their numbers for their bonus instead of the companies image

4.0
Mar 27, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great company values, excellent work space, opportunity for growth

Cons

Change happens quickly and sometimes there is little to no direction in new positions or positions where a lead has been promoted

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