Lyft L5 atmosphere and stability

May 15, 2020 10 Comments

Feel really sorry about recent layoffs.

Curious to know how is atmosphere and general mood at Lyft L5 currently?

Sounds like this is important (which will cost money in short-middle term) strategic bet but I am just trying to understand on how well it is positioned against competitors? Is L5 anymore safe comparing with the rest of the Company or the opposite way around? (Cruise just had layoffs..)

For quite a while wanted to break into this field, had my onsite recently and excited about the team but now evaluating if it is a good idea in general taking into account current market / Corona / layoffs.

Feel that my current job is stable but not exciting / not much learning.

Current TC 220 but for this decision I want to leave TC aside (and no concrete info yet)

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  • Apple
    Icml2017

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    Icml2017
    I don’t work at Lyft but interviewed & had job offer from Lyft L5 and am quite familiar with self driving car industry in general. Lyft L5 is way behind the leaders in autonomous driving like Waymo. Cruise, Argo, etc are quite ahead of Lyft L5 as well. What I saw during my interview at Lyft L5 was the lead/s heading teams of 30-40 people having minimal industry and no end-to-end product development experience. One of the heads of autonomous software didn’t even have any background in robotics, computer vision, planning, control, which are its key components.

    Magna, one of the top Lidar companies, scrapped its partnership with Lyft earlier this year as they didn’t see much value of L5 automation in coming years.

    With that above being said, I interviewed 1 and 1/2 years back and things might be different now.
    May 15, 2020 0
  • Google
    SWSb30

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    SWSb30
    I was with Lyft until few weeks ago. Management is not very happy with progress with Lyft L5 and large number of engineers at L5 are working on core Lyft ride share app after recent reorg. You can expect more layoffs or more people working on core ride share projects. This was called project elderado
    May 15, 2020 3
    • Does it mean that Lyft is slowly moving away from L5? Wondering why they are still hiring there?
      May 15, 2020
    • Lyft
      lyftlevel5

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      lyftlevel5
      This is not true, I doubt there will be more L5 resources being put on el dorado, and will be curious what connection has to determine that management is not happy with progress. I’m in that management chain and can say that the Executives are optimistic about the progress being made, albeit now on pause because of covid
      May 15, 2020
  • Lyft
    yupwhatdo

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    yupwhatdo
    Don't come unless we double your TC
    May 15, 2020 0
  • Lyft
    erlL581

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    erlL581
    Situation is very bad now. The Magna partnership ending means Lyft L5 can be shut down to entertain acquisition
    May 18, 2020 0
  • Lyft
    adssshgh

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    adssshgh
    L5 is too far behind all AV players. People are here because of the higher TC.
    May 30, 2020 1
    • Apple
      Icml2017

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      Icml2017
      Fully agree with this; the offer I (and some of my colleagues) got from Lyft L5 was pretty good from TC perspective. This was late 2018 though and Lyft stock was priced around $48 then. Going by current Lyft stock price, TC would have gone down quite a bit but Lyft stock can (and probably will) bounce back in the coming months.
      May 31, 2020