Interesting technical problems, smart, driven and accomplished colleagues, high compensation
Terrible WLB, favoritism, management churn, backstabbing, difficult industry, uncertain future.
Currently at FANG, 5 YOE, TC ~330K. Cruise offer: ~ 230K(base)/90K(bonus)/300K(RSU,4yrs)/25K(signing bonus).
Hi, got a verbal offer from Cruise for Senior Software Engineer (infra team). Base: 215k cash bonus: 65 RSU: 270k / 4 Sign on: 10k TC: 347 (excl sign on) YoE: 6/7 thoughts on this one?
What is it like to work at Cruise Automation. Currently: Amazon sde1 145k tc Cruise: IC2 210k tc Both are in Seattle
Received a verbal offer from the recruiter - Role - Sr. Software Eng. Base - 190 K Bonus - 57 K Equity - 170K in Cruise stocks (1 + 4). Location - Seattle YOE - 6 Current TC - 162K base + 21K Bonus + 85K equity (in seattle) Overall Cruise is offering more in cash but less in Equity. Not sure abou...Read more
Expecting Cruise offer for SoC design. Can't find much data here or levels.fyi Yoe:6 TC:225k I am thinking of asking 180k base + 50ksignon + 300k stock/4yrs as it's not IPOed. Cruise has 30% yearly merit bonus. #offer #cruiseautomation #hardware #semiconductor #microsoft #salaries
I am expecting an offer from Cruise. The recruiter provided below details so far: Sr. HW Engineer Base: 205k Bonus: 30% RSU: 200k/4yrs RSUs can not be cashed out before May 2023. Is this fair offer? Recruiter says Cruise does not offer sign on bonus. Is the bonus guaranteed? Currently at Microsoft...Read more
Current TC $230k, 5 YOE Cruise offer: $160 base, 50k bonus, $180k RSU (over 4 years) Similar roles in hardware. Thoughts on Cruise RSU value and chances of IPO?
Have a staff engineer from Cruise on the Perception team. After reading in the news and internal forums it looks like the company will shutdown by end of year. Is it worth still taking the offer? Does the company have any future? Offer: 600k TC YOE: 11
Recently, I was extended an offer from Cruise in vehicle integration. MS mechanical+ 7 YOE; 122k TC Detroit area L4 $160k 30% bonus $15k relocation (taxable) $15k sign on 100k/4yrs Any thoughts on offer/ pushing for L5? Is this offer worth compromising the great WLB I have currently? #auto #cr...Read more
I just got an offer at Cruise for a Senior Hardware role. Salary: 150,000 Annual Bonus: 50,000 RSU: 250,000/4 years TTC: 262,000/year Thoughts?
Received an offer for Cruise L6 in System Engineering and looking for thoughts. Base - 205 Bonus - 20% Equity - 900K How is this? Recruiter said I am on top of the band.
Hi, I just got a Technical Product Owner offer at Cruise. It is remote. I’m based out of Portland, Oregon. Base - 156k Bonus - 23.4k (15%) Stock - 300k (vested 25% each year) TC - 254k YOE - 5 No other offers yet. What do you think ?
Ex Cruiser here, just received a letter stating that GM is withdrawing the offer to buy Cruise stock from current and former employees. That is 450k down the drain. The worst part is they already deducted tax on it. How do I claim a tax refund now. Does anyone at Cruise know what is going on. Any ...Read more
Hi there, I have a verbal offer and expecting a formal offer from Cruise for an IC4 level role in Engineering. Tried to read some reviews here and I am confused if its specific engineering teams that have serious burnout or is it company-wide? I read that the Engineering culture is toxic in some wa...Read more
Title: Senior Software Engineer 2 Base: 200k Sign bonus: 45k Annual Bonus: 30% of salary (45% for exceeds expectations) RSUs: 340k over 4 years Should I accept or try to get better/similar comp at a different company? Concerned by some reviews of Cruise on here. Currently L5 @ AWS YOE: 7 TC: 200k...Read more
I was offered 220k vesting over a period of 4 years, am I being low balled?
6 yoe Both offers are L5 ML Eng Both Fully remote @ HCOL location Since Pinterest front loads RSUs, it's a bit difficult to compare the offers term by term. I will calculate the first 3 years of TC year-by-year for both companies. yr4 TC are not that critical because either promote or jump ship by ...Read more
I hadnt even started working there because of visa, but now they just called me they had to rescind offer for business reasons :( How’s waymo doing btw? What about other self driving companies? Assuming most are just burning cash - any worried about running out of cash any time soon? Are you all on ...Read more
Base / Stock (4 yrs) / Sign-On / Annual Bonus Apple: 215k / 300k / 100k / ~10% (TC ~340k) Cruise: 220k / 230k / 40k / 65k (TC ~350k) Suggestions? Both ML/AI-related positions. Still negotiating, but not sure how much higher I can go (Cruise already went up by ~120k). Also, Cruise RS...Read more
Hi all, I just got a verbal offer from Cruise for Sr. SE Embedded System and would love your opinion about TC. Looking for real and honest comments :) 170k base 30% bonus/year 250k rsu/4years YOE: 7 How good is the offer? Should I negotiate more? #swe #tech #cruise