- 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.
What does it mean for the on-demand industry?
This means they will likely exit California entirely since they can’t possibly support drivers as employees. Other states will follow. Likely to get appealed and drag out I suppose. I mean you may have good intentions fighting for drivers but the end result is… there won’t be any drivers at all b...Read more
https://www.geekwire.com/2020/seattle-adopts-minimum-wage-uber-lyft-drivers
Guess we played by the same non-rules https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/25/lyft-god-view/
Labor Department Proposes Changes to Independent Contractor Rules https://www.wsj.com/articles/labor-department-proposes-changes-to-independent-contractor-rules-11665498794 Letting taxi drivers set their own price will make Uber and Lyft expensive to use, rip gig economy.
https://qz.com/1537401/lyft-and-juno-sue-over-rules-to-raise-pay-for-ride-hail-drivers/amp/
https://qz.com/1537401/lyft-and-juno-sue-over-rules-to-raise-pay-for-ride-hail-drivers/ We did not sue. So why are we still bad?
Kudos to coinbase who recently implemented a no politics rule at work. Sadly nobody else has the moral courage to follow. Do you know of other tech companies that are not woke and politically neutral AND pay at least Microsoft not Amazon TC? L63, $240k TC, 7 yoe. #tech #google #facebook #snap #ub...Read more
Like if you failed two on site interview opportunities, then you won't be allowed to try for any openings of same role in the future. Does anyone of the FAANG or PULPA company have such kind of rules? Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix Pinterest, Uber, Lyft, Postmates Airbnb, etc.
Just heard from multiple friends about Lyft firing 13% of employees. Some of them were top performers whose EMs, skip, and multiple VPs fought to retain. One was up for promo and clearly exceeding expectations, and apparently not even the EM or skip were consulted ahead of time or agreed. It seems ...Read more
Mobile engineer here. Want to increase TC at a quickly-growing spot where mobile engineering has a big impact. TC: At least $350K/year, with $180k/year in cash for a Senior SWE role Size: Probably Series B or earlier, with a fast-growing trajectory. This rules out - Almost IPO places like Instaca...Read more
This post isn’t about Lyft vs Uber. Lyft has been kicking our asses over the last 2 years. The article below though is a reminder that when governments interfere with pricing set by a competitive marketplace, there are negative consequences. Drivers demanded higher pay, now they are being locked o...Read more
"Prop. 22, the gig worker exemption for Uber and Lyft, is ruled unconstitutional" https://twitter.com/i/events/1428887645149483015?s=09 What is your outlook for Uber. It's crazy that people want to turn a gig into an actual job. Being an employee makes things alot more tricky for people that just w...Read more
Lets say you have a job at a respectable company, Microsoft in my case. How many YOE of experience would one need to reliably be hired as L4 at FB/Google. What about top tier startups like Uber/lyft/dropbox/square etc? I understand the answer will vary greatly based on your type of experience and ...Read more
rules: 1. No interns, and no internships - lyft does not allow internship referrals 2. No director levels or above - same as above. 3. You must have a specific job posting in mind (link), and a few sentences about why you are a good unique fit for the role. If you don't meet the YOE requirements ple...Read more
I'm interviewing this month and next and seemed to oversubscribe myself. I'm looking for caliber upgrade and $. WLB is non factor. Help me rule out companies. Doing: g, fb, u, amz, lnkd, lyft, snap Unsure about doing: stripe, dbox, zillow, apple, sift, voleon, citadel, two sigma Need help on the ...Read more
I am trying to rank companies where I want to apply. My target is to maximize first (TC, WLB) and then (reputation, growth opportunity). So far I have: - established and safe, good WLB/TC: google, netflix, dropbox, twitter - healthy pre-ipo: stripe, databricks - healthy post-ipo: twilio, square - hi...Read more
I’m starting a new job soon and I’m trying to figure out what to do with my existing retirement funds. I have my pre tax 401k and a Roth 401k which I used for the mega back door through Lyft. My initial thoughts are to roll the Roth 401k into my personal Roth IRA with vanguard. However it seems if...Read more
For low-risk flights with alternatives, I've found myself playing a game. I try to push how late I can leave to still make it on time. Rules of the game 1. Have to Uber or Lyft to the airport (friends aren't allowed to drop you off) 2. No TSA PRE or faster security check 3. Clock the latest time...Read more
Hi everyone! This is my first time posting, so please excuse me if I'm breaking any rules. I'm a CS junior at a top 3 CS school in Pittsburgh, and I'm currently a SWE intern at Linkedin working full stack. I have done 110+ LC and have started the grind again. I'm a good communicator and very passio...Read more