- 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.
Horrible experience no option to cancel the ride. Due to driver not able to communicate in english it was hard to let him know the pick up location. Also there was no option to cancel the ride!!!
Do any product teams at Lyft use go? The few teams I talked to all use Python. I heard some teams in level 5 use Rust (drooling).
is it just me or does anyone else sense that Lyft’s matching algo and ETA estimations are far inferior to Uber’s? i have no association with either companies. started using ride share when Lyft first launched but organically gravitated to using Uber more over time. tbh, i notice the keyword “incomp...Read more
a lot of companies have moved away from python except for data science and adopted go for services. Lyft already gifts 14 cents from every ride to Amazon. Why doesn’t it try to reduce its AWS footprint by using a more efficient stack? With python, there’s no true multithreading due to the global int...Read more
Do you see yourselves using ride sharing even after number of infections reduce? Or would you resort to public transport/buying your own vehicle? Is this truly the end of rideshare (as we know it)?
Not referring to the XL/SUV options. I’ve never used the premium or upgraded options for Lyft and Uber, and I’ve never known anyone who has. It’s nice when it’s offered as a free or cheap upgrade though. Curious to know how others use the apps. I imagine this has to make up a minority of all rides...Read more
Can we use Uber/ Lyft commuter benefit while WFH or how are people using it? #wfh #benefits
I got an interview for DS at Lyft.. I currently use SAS and am very comfortable with it. I know only very basic python.. should I even bother taking the interview? I am shifting to python so will be very comfortable with it in 6 months.. So currently, is it worth doing the dance to get rejected a...Read more
What caching frameworks and data pipelines are being used to power Lyft?
I started getting this banner about community guidelines after rides with my commuter card even though I tip more than usual. Lyft needs to stop drivers from using the system this way, otherwise riders will just not tip if they're gonna get a poor rating either way. TC 250k
Why not just take the bus or go pick it up yourself/cook your own food?
Nobody cares about it unless it's FAANG. So stop embarrassing yourself. Nobody wants to know that you have previously worked at a mediocre company.
Question to folks from Snap/LA only Thanks
With road to profitability uncertain
Is there any decent alternative? The two mentioned are not bad, but I'd like more options for when they do the price surge.
https://www.cnet.com/news/lyft-acquires-yesgraph-and-datascore-to-bring-in-drivers/