Considering taking an offer at Lime in engineering. Anyone want to share pros/cons of joining ? In terms of work culture, career growth, impact at work, work life balance. Money wise initial offer is on the lower end. Current tc140, yoe4 Offer tc 160 without counting the paper money
Pro: it’s the next big hyped thing... Con: ... which might just be a hype and turn out that it’s a very seasonal thing Pro: you’ll work with a lot of ex-Uber people Con: ...many of whom are Uber 1.0 entitled bros. As well as millionaires. Pro: you’ll learn a lot... Con: ...after you put in the hours. Pro: paper money... Con: ...that could very well stay paper money. Just look up what happened with Ofo.
Pretty toxic culture thanks to the shear amount of uber bros coming in. There’s an inside joke here that if you don’t know someone(very common since we are growing so fast) that you can safely assume they are from uber. I’ll say eng is actually the least toxic part of Lime. You’ll work with a lot of smart, driven, and fun people and our CTO is amazing. Rest of leadership not so much. Product team is hit or miss. There’s some new hotshot that was brought in from twitter that is leading product now, but a lot of people don’t like him.
whats toxic about culture, alot of OT? tight deadlines? I dont mind putting hours in - just want to make sure is impactful work and how is their data science group?
Agree with tobystoots. The culture specifically is worse in those areas of the org where people came from Uber. There is a lot of cloak and dagger and self promotion trumping team spirit. Data is a mixed bag. There are good people but the head of data science came from Uber and has lost 3 good people in the last month.
The tech org is great. A lot of change and growth across the company. If you like helping companies scale, it’s the place to be.
It’s not for everyone. Don’t come if you can’t take risks, want to have a easy job or prefer work life balance.
How's the paper money?
paper money valued around 200k over 4 years even if turns to real money, it doesnt feel too much
True. It doesn't seem like FU money. Not even if it grows 5X in four years. So you better optimize for learning while you keep looking for that FU money opportunity.