- kind working team… genuine and authentic - incredibly smart and thoughtful people at all levels, on most teams - interesting opportunity space with tangible problems to solve and high potential for innovation - thoughtful focus on customers/users on most teams, with more and more company investment in how to do this effectively - recent investments in strategically aligning the organization and creating clarity in operations to support initiatives are beginning to help
Executives and senior leaders are terrible at investing in, growing and empowering the leaders under them, rather than holding them accountable and valuing their expertise and insights, they tend to bottleneck, micromanage and ignore the smart and thoughtful people they have hired. This has a three fold effect of eroding confidence in leadership overall, alienating working teams, and causing a culture of distrust, speculation and poor communication. Because everyone is “so nice”, and leadership is taking the tactic of micromanaging, a lot of things that could be worked through are left unsaid, and candor is absent at all levels. If Lyft can rightsize the above, by working with their leaders rather than around them; and investing in more leaders that are held accountable to contribute, drive, communicate and deliver …it will absolutely find itself on the right path.
Am I a traitor for leaving Uber and join its direct competitor: Lyft, given I received higher TC and title.
Uber is 13 times bigger than Lyft and that converting from duopoly into monopoly by simply buying out the competitor seems to be the right approach TC: 320k
Lyft had only one competitor in ride sharing still they failed miserably. 1) Do you think they have incompetent engineers monkey coding their Jira’s aligned by Product 2) Bunch of Product owners who got in by doing some coursera courses 3) Poor management who thought with almost no or just one co...Read more
Would you join / have you joined your company’s primary competitor (I.e Uber —> Lyft or the other way around)? If so, why and did you regret it?
Considering the latest rounds of layoffs in high paying companies like Lyft, Stripe, Meta and the rest, do you think we will enter a new era of more cost effective companies where the engineering costs are slashed? Somebody on Twitter pointed out that while Stripe and Lyft were burning money and had...Read more
Asking for a friend who works for Lyft and considering applying to Uber. Did anybody jumped ship and moved from Lyft to Uber or the other way around? Are there any restrictions that prevents you from joining the competitor? TC 200 #tech #softwareengineer #jobs
Uber/Lyft competitor that automatically routes your request to whichever app is either cheaper/faster at the time, for only a small fee.
Very smart of Uber to launch this plus give me platinum right off the bat. Ever since Uber Rewards, I’ve stopped opening all of the competitor apps, not just Lyft, but also Doordash and Postmates and Caviar.
What does it mean by “competitor” really? I mean if I quit Uber and join Lyft, does it mean I’m violating the non-compete agreement (usually on the offer)? People also suggest that when quiting do not tell the employer where you are going. Can they sue you if they find out later you are working for...Read more
Just got an offer from both, similar package, I like both for their mission, culture, engineering team, very difficult decision for me. Airbnb is profitable, growth slows down a little bit since last year, have some new initiatives, some competitors, but not as fierce as lyft is facing. On the side...Read more
There is usually a non-compete clause in offer letters but how often and how is it enforced? Does your current company prevent you from joining your competitor by warning you when you resign and/or proceed to legal actions afterwards (or whenever they find out), or does the competitor ignore your ap...Read more
Uber partnered with Waymo. Uber's one of the largest investor is banking on GM Cruise. GM have 10% stake in Lyft (Uber's competitor) haha top investing firm and companies showing how they diversify. https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2018/05/31/general-motors-cruise-softbank...Read more
I’m not gay and I don’t use any dating apps (though I’m not sure that’s even what Grindr is) but it strikes me as odd that it has no real competition. I mean sure there’s technically gay options on the straight dating apps, but Grindr is apparently very different, it’s much more location based and m...Read more
I got an offer to switch to Lyft. The salary is better and so is the job, I also think that I will be a better cultural fit there. I am worried, however, about how that will look into my resumé. How do you see someone who changes to the main competitor?
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could provide referrals for FB/Apple/Amazon/Uber/Lyft. I realize I should only expect new grad offers given YoE. I have interviews with Google, a couple of our competitors, and a startup coming up. Can DM resume if required. Thanks! YoE: 8mo TC: 115k
OpenAI wants a 90B valuation. Joining now you’d have to believe in a future where that number is not only stable but also going to go up. That seems unlikely. Bard is the competitor everyone mentions but no one seems to use. Also your equity is in Google which isn’t bad but you’re not going to see ...Read more
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-05-31/waymo-adds-62-000-chrysler-minivans-to-self-driving-fleet Any ideas: - With cheap LiDARs technology, what will be the range of a low-end self-driving car? With current hardware price, I saw $200k tag. If EV + SD can be del...Read more
I’ve noticed in the past 1 month that in multiple cities where Uber had competition (Lyft, etc.), their rides are now cheaper than the competition. The opposite used to be the case. I suspect Uber is adding more discount to rides and not charging the true cost I.e incurring more loss on each ride t...Read more
Candidates are 1. Airbnb. They overreacted during the pandemic, sold their equity at a fire sale, laid off 25% of their employees and then rehired some of them a month later, and didn’t go IPO when they could at a hefty valuation. Now they are trying to go IPO in a middle of a pandemic when traveli...Read more
Feel really sorry about recent layoffs. Curious to know how is atmosphere and general mood at Lyft L5 currently? Sounds like this is important (which will cost money in short-middle term) strategic bet but I am just trying to understand on how well it is positioned against competitors? Is L5 anymo...Read more