In either direction... How did it go? Were you escorted out? Were there legal threats? I don't really plan on doing it but I am legit curious how they reacted. Especially since employees of one probably know business strategies and plans.
I think it's fine, but expect to get escorted out immediately and talk to the legal team before leaving. The best advice is don't take any trade secrets or talk about anything you did at the company.
Note to self: take trade secrets to Lyft then tell business insider
Haven't quite a bit of people from Lyft joined Uber over the past few years? I'm pretty sure people just get escorted out. But then again people got escorted out of Microsoft when they join the Google too.
Ya they work in our kitchen shoveling seasoned rice and halal chicken into the hustle machine
Sounds nice. I don't think we can afford to escort people out yet. We just kindly ask them to leave their computers and gtfu.
I wouldn't be surprised if we weren't following employee Uber accounts to Lyft headquarters. Case anyone was interviewing.
Lyft's former COO joined Uber. He was here for a couple years and left recently. He brought with him 3 other Lyfters who are still here
That guy allegedly took a bunch of files from his work computer (a la the Otto bro) and there was a long legal battle that was recently settled. Did not know he left Uber. Where did he go? To OP - California has very protective (to the employee) laws around employment and leaving a workplace. It is illegal for employers to make you sign a non compete or solicitation agreement, for example. But if you do quit and say you are going to a competitor, expect them to wipe your laptop and look for Dropbox, Google Drive, Flash, email transfers. That's the only legal risk, so don't be dumb and do any of that.
You are partially correct about the non compete but incorrect about the non solicitation. Non-solicitation clauses are generally enforceable. A non-compete can be enforced in CA if you move to a new job and there is a high likelihood that the internal trade secrets or internal information you received from your previous job would be revealed at your new job. This is a very narrow requirement so most jobs are safe.
Travis Vanderzanden was very sloppy. Specifically had chat records of him saying he was going to poach from Lyft and take them to Uber.
Sounds like history is repeating itself
Not good
It's probably the comment about saying Uber would buy them and replicating software that might be causing the issues.
Why is Uber <--> Lyft such a special case that you would fear legal retaliation? How about Google, Facebook? Google, Apple? Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat? Netflix, Hulu?
But you prefer being associated with Tableau?
I don't know if there is a legitimate competitor to tableau.