Overhire and layoff

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SWSb30

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SWSb30
May 15, 2020 39 Comments

I was working for lyft until 2 weeks ago and now moved to Google. 25% of my team was let go and noone was given a chance to look for job in different team. My manager and director had calls with me on the day I left. They both shed some crocodile tears, gave some suggestions on resume and referred to few companies. They told lay offs came at the VP level and their hands were tied.

Now they got green signal to hire new folks and giving new offers. What bs is this? My past team members were smart and some have got offers from FAANG and some havent started the process.

On the last day Lyft engineering head Eiser told shit happens and Lyft self driving chief told decisions were suboptimal in fort night. I am on Visa and had 2 crazy weeks.

Overall I am extremely disappointed and since they pay slightly more than FAANG, management thinks they can get away with hire and fire.

#severance #layoff #lyft

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  • Google
    DPPL54

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    DPPL54
    How did you move to Google in two weeks? Did you turn down a previous Google offer within the last year?
    May 15, 2020 6
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  • I just interviewed with an engineer in Lyft and it was pretty bad. Either his morale was very low or he has too much ego or could be his working style, he wasn't talking properly not even listening, looking here and there. Lyft folks why are you still hiring if you have condition like this.
    May 15, 2020 1
    • Bruh, if a Lyft engineer is interviewing at a shit tier company like Expedia, then either he is just interviewing for practice or for getting a counter offer lol. His tc at Lyft would be multiple times the equivalent title at Expedia.
      May 18, 2020
  • Lyft
    HMe

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    HMe
    Yes situation is pretty bad, I was affected by the layoff and the preparing for the interviews is so stressful. Any help/advice for google interviews?
    May 15, 2020 2
  • Uber
    tsee

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    tsee
    Yeah i don’t get it. It’s like they just wanted to be able to tell investors they saved X dollars through cuts. Once that was done, back to hiring
    May 15, 2020 0