You’re right the main challenges seem to be around operations and scaling, not a hard problem to solve given googles depth.
It's a management initiative and being a management initiative cuts the chance of success by 67%. I lived through 60 failed management initiatives at my previous employer, they always took too long and missed the market window, or failed because they were a stupid idea and nobody stood up to management and told them, "hey management your $1B pet project is a stupid idea!"
What's a management initiative?
Waymo = worst of apple, Google and Tesla cultures with terrible pay.
@showmethe: valued at $11 per stock but at what overall valuation? $10B, $50B, $100B, $175B?
$15B
So is Waymo not really considered part of Google? Like nest? Or can you transfer internally?
Avoid Waymo - particularly Mapping Ops like the plague. They burn through engineers with zero retention. Reason? Management is beyond horrible, completely disorganized and run by arrogance. Run far, far away. Am leaving waymo for cruise.
I like Waymo more than I liked Google. The outlook is good as far as I can tell. Generally the culture is mission driven.
Do you guys get waymo stock or google stock?
Interviewed with them a while back. They seemed like a faster moving Google. Their future has always been kind of a question mark to me. SDVs will take time.
Competition seems strong but their testing is simulation based and trying to solve problems through computing. Why do you think there is a question mark on their future since autonomous vehicles are the future?
Oh they are 100% the future. I just meant that future is far and I see them having a hard time monetizing in the meantime. Also I don’t trust anything Google with anything operations heavy. Also what you said kinda summarizes one of the problems they have. Relying too much on hardcore computation and trying to figure out the biz later. I just don’t see them winning this, sorry. Car companies and transportation networks are much more likely to win the race. Waymo has too much to figure out. Personal opinion obviously and of course I am biased. :)