- 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.
Article: I If there were ever a time when Lyft had a chance to catch up with Uber, it was last year. A constant barrage of negative publicity, including a #deleteUber social media movement, offered Lyft a gift in terms of picking up business. But while Lyft made some gains, it still finished the ye...Read more
Saw this online someone made. These are directly from their S1 Airbnb has never made a dime ever. Even has operating losses. Anyone who says “we are profitable” is BSing. This is straight from their own S1 Airbnb also says “we might never make money” Doordash even had loss in a pandemic. Think ...Read more
Good write up from The Information. The People Who Matter at Lyft Below are 104 of the top employees at the ride-hailing company, including operations (the biggest group) and two organizations that are gaining importance within the company—growth and autonomous vehicle research. Employees a...Read more
For those who have worked at these companies, and you had to pick, where would you go? Please pick the option that best describes you. For example, L and U who likes D means that you are a person who has worked at Lyft and Uber but likes Doordash the most. Furthermore, you would pick this case inst...Read more
After being an IC for over 10 years, I moved into to a management role at a new company. The company is a well known (tech tier 4/5) bank. My team is extremely lazy, insubordinate, and writes poor code. The company is very political (it’s who you know - not what you know). Complaining doesn’t seem...Read more
Future engineers beware, below is the article from The Information that talks about Lyft buying share to make their IPO look good, and deal with the ramifications later: Lyft Kicks Off Price War with Uber Ahead of IPOs By Amir Efrati Feb 25, 2019 4:56 PM PST Photo by Bloomberg As Uber and Lyft p...Read more
Reversal is creating tension for workers who adjusted to flexibility gained during pandemic Tech companies that led the way in embracing remote work early in the pandemic are increasingly leading their workers right back to the office—whether they like it or not. Alphabet-owned Google, Lyft, Faceb...Read more
I live in Seattle so I can get away with not owning a car. However, I’m finding myself very limited: I can’t do random weekend trips at will, can’t go hike without taking the bus which is super slow, can’t even go visit friends without spending $$ on Lyft/Uber, can’t explore the PNW without spending...Read more
First off, anyone who was laid off at Uber, I hope you find a good job soon. Uber doesn’t deserve your talents. -From your big bro upstairs at 1455. To everyone else hyping the sh*t out of Uber pre-Ipo. Shaking my head to you. All you saw on blind were posts of how Uber was “supreme”. The hottest...Read more
In the future when the industry consolidates, car services like Lyft, Uber and rental car compaines are dead. Google or <insert name> will offer free car service for playing ads the whole time on TVs. Car compianes will no longer sell cars in mass beacuse who wants that cost when you have a fre
I’m 27 years old, living in a medium COL area. I finally achieved a net worth of 500k. Of course there are plenty of folks on Blind younger than me who have way more… But most of those people have really high-paying jobs, whereas I’ve never had a high-paying job. So this advice is for people who d...Read more
After reading few posts on blind it seems, to do MS in the US and then doing a job is better than Internal Transfers. Seems like Internal Transfers (especially in amazon) come with their own sets of issues like comparatively low pay and more work. Can someone please confirm if this is true and also...Read more
Dear blinders, I am a Bay Area resident who used to take uner/lyft and public transpotation to commute everywhere. I am planning to get a liscense soon as one of my new year resolution. I have been hearing from all my friends with shocking voice telling how could I survive living here without a car ...Read more
Uber, wtf are you guys doing that I have to update your app every week. Stop coding. The app is fine. And Netflix, your app is fine too. I swear engineers create more issues than solve them. Like seriously, wtf are you guys updating all the time? The app was fine 3 years ago. I choose what I want t...Read more
After a year of founding a startup, it's now stable enough to hire some full-time/part-time employees that I trust. They have been working with me on an intermittent basis, and I'm confident in their ability to manage/scale it. However, the business does not yet have enough revenue to support them a...Read more
UPDATE: Guys I would like to apologize for the misinformation I provided yesterday. It was not intentional, the data (link provided below) is there referred to as H1b program data and description field for Case Status is given as "Status associated with the last significant event or decision. Valid ...Read more
Hi I'm a 21 year old who wants to work at the big 4. I'm sorry if you guys had to answer this question so many times, but I want to know the objective opinion on my chance of working at the big 4. These are what I have until now ● Goes to Kyung Hee University (top 31 ranking in Asia) majoring Inter...Read more
YOE: 12 TC: 780k Is a joke? Yes Now that we have the important stuff out of the way, onto the fun because it's performance/holiday season and I'm procrastinating. Facebook - Harvard. Fitting that Zucc went here. Everybody still wants to go here, it has the name brand, prestige, and controversy. An...Read more
I wanted to share my own journey over the last 7 months and hope it helps people out there. I’ve been on the lookout for a PM gig since March 2023 March-May 0 recruiter calls I used a generic resume to spam roles that interests me without caring if my domain experience matched the role May-July ...Read more
--FAANG tier-- Facebook: Too political, disorganized, elitist Amazon: 'nuff said. Harsh culture of algorithmic stack ranking, long hours, low pay. Apple: Secrecy breeds siloed culture, top-down tyrannical, cheap about pay. Netflix: ? Don't they do stack-ranking but it's not as bad as in Amazon o...Read more