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Lyft was the first company in my last 10 years where I had to do stupid ass useless basic ass job (edit, disclaimer: 10 YOE, 1.5y at Lyft). Hell if I honestly tell anyone what was I doing back there I'd be straight up downleveled, or even worse, won't even have a chance to get an offer. I am trying to make a compelling story to tell in my next interviews but I can't even come up with any good ideas. I sold my soul to this company and now my head is empty and devoid of any bright ideas. I feel like a walking dead with my life energy sucked away.
What did you do? Was it non technical?
Low impact engineering work.
wait how was that possible? Lyft lost its lyf only in recent years but was a front runner in the ride sharing economy in the early years. If you had been there for a decade you should be super valuable to startups looking to scale up. Also, many real world business problems aren't that complicated; many people pretend to make it so but they really aren't. The imposter syndrome is real - and many people are faking it till they make it!
He wasn’t there for 10 years - he says first company in 10 years where he had dumb work
Yea i just assumed that OP was there for ten years. Hopefully OP wasn't there for ten years given what was described! p.s. OP didn't mention their gender either ! 😁😁😁
I have experienced something similar at Meta. Only maintaining and answering in support group chat about internal tools that my team made before I have even joined. Only some bugfixes, better error messaging were my only “code writing”. So when I had a chance, just jumped to Google and during team matching I was honest and said basically what I wrote above. At Google I am 200% more happier and feeling productive
I had the opposite experience when I joined Google, degraded from impactful world-class work to bug juggling and tiny fixes
I think the issue is these shitty roles exist at all these big companies
That's a pretty typical career at SAP. AMA.
favorite prime number?
Optimus
TC or GYFO
Who stays at a brainless job for a decade? Sounds like Lyft should have gotten rid of you long ago. Take some responsibility for your own life and stop blaming a company when it was you that wasted your own time. Lame
Nice to see the Good camaraderie amongst lyfters. Always pleasant
Sometimes you are stuck for external reasons and cannot just move. Plus, the slow-boiling frog experiment
Similar stuff at slack for me tbh. When I’ve been interviewing I can’t come up with a single impactful thing I’ve accomplished here.
I’m in the same spot kind of but at a much less known company. It’s so hard for me to even get an interview rn
Same position. I was in a really great job before cash app and I don’t have much to show for my time there. I have been interviewing, and I just try to make it as glossy as possible. It’s hard to show great results but you can still gloss over stuff as much as possible. Just think of a few use cases and projects and spin it.
You could always take more responsibility and ownership. Regardless of the company. I don't understand people who just sit and wait to be guided (managed, directed...). You are the master of your fate - don't wait for the daddy to tell you what to do.
Eh, depends on your leadership. I’m a go-getter but if leadership wants to keep you pigeon-holed then your sense of ownership a liability.
What Amazon said. Some leaders will kill your motivation and your ability to self manage. They will withhold information, not add you to the right meetings/docs, and only provide context in the format of micro-tasks. It is very hard to leave that pigeon hole. Best move is to get out.
Did you not do any work or was it just bad work?
Just some low ass impact work that any monkey can do.
Dude. Embellish. Lie. It’s okay. If you don’t you will always lose to those who do.