Is Lyft honestly a company that treats employees and driver partners with more class / dignity (and better compensation)? Or is it a ruse and Uber simply owns its long hours and challenged relationship with both parties in a more unabashed manner?
Same shits
Someone told me most of their team is contractor type roles
Lyft can pay well but so can Uber. It really depends on your experience. Plenty of friends I know have gone from Uber to Lyft and plenty (well a few) have gone from Lyft to Uber so they obviously were getting decent offers. For example one former Uber senior-leader person (all I can say) was getting around $750k/yr (total comp) to come to Lyft. I know Travis V. must have been getting at least a couple million annually to go to Uber, same with his buddy Steve. Honestly your best bet is to apply to both and have them negotiate against each other. Ultimately a big reason I choose Lyft over Uber was compensation, but others have been in a different boat. Also I wasn't a big fan of the leader who was heading the group I'd be directing (again all I feel comfortable sharing). As for culture I think it really depends on your leader. Some groups work nothing others are on Slack every Saturday and Sunday. Hope that helps.
It's all the same in terms of how employees and driver partners are treated. For driver partners, Uber has the advantage of a far better driver app, more efficient algorithms that net drivers more trips per hour, greenlight hubs for in-person support and phone support within 2 min. For employees, Uber has much more interesting and difficult engineering and product challenges due to scale, global reach and the fact that we're at least 2 years ahead of Lyft in terms of technological capabilities.
Come on man, at least give a fair and balanced view on the pros and cons.
Which part did you not find fair and balanced? The main upside I see in Lyft is that you're joining a smaller company, so if you're on the management track, it's a good place to be because there may be more opportunities to move up in the corporate hierarchy. I'm an IC so I value professional growth that comes from tackling technical engineering problems and I'm not interested in management.
I personally love what I do at Uber, and I'm sure my coworkers do too. I think the rumor of Uber employees slaving away is a false rumor.
+1. Uber is a great place to work