Very supportive environment, great culture - Data Scientist Lyft Employee Review

5.0
Jul 28, 2020
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Pros

Lyft is remarkably non-corporate for a company of its size. I almost never had to put up with BS as a data scientist, I was always able to make my case and be heard clearly. Everyone was really collaborative, and when I had to go on medical leave, the amount of support I had from my team was astounding. Also, the management structure for DS roles (report to a manager on the Science team but be embedded on the particular engineering team) worked really well for me- having a manager who knew my methods, and a team that was working with me to apply them, is very sensible.

Cons

Obviously they're under a great amount of stress while COVID-19 is decimating their revenue, and I don't know whether anything has changed since April.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Academic environment that has a lot of interesting science problems from mapping, optimization, plus all the usual user metrics. Rewarding and complex problems that often have a lo t of tradeoff.

Cons

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