What is it like working at Lyft, Slack and PayPal as a SWE/SDE? Would you recommend it?
Which group/team at Lyft are you wondering about? Each is a little different, and focuses/sprints/pressure is different too. For example L5 and core are vastly different in terms of project and expertise
Any teams, just looking to hear different experiences
Entirely depends on the team/group at PayPal. Not the best of the engineers. Less than 5% good engineers. It’s an extremely stable company. Cash cow. Upper management obviously call the shots. Product people aren’t great! Engineers have autonomy mainly on tech upgrades rather than solving interesting problems. Anyone below Sr Director is just a puppet as far as I have seen. The reason work/life balance is good is because work is bad. However, the company is doing well. Pay has become decent because of the stock increase!
Vote for slack
Would say Slack
Venmo team would be super cool
Which team/group at PayPal?
SWE/SDE
Software engineer is not a team or group...