Is GM Cruise LLC a good company to have a long term career?
Jul 23, 2018
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Starting an interview process with Cruise. Want to know if Cruise is a good company to have long term career. How is career growth? Promotions? Overall culture?
Heard that they hired CTO and fired them soon. Company is going through some growing pains as well.
TC: $220k
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Yes, upper management seems to be having some trouble on deciding who amongst them is a good fit, but luckily afaik none of that has trailed down to ICs.
Pay is more than solid (at least for me), culture and co-workers are great. Most people seem to like/love their immediate bosses. There's lots of tooling and we're doing pretty well at the moment. All the benefits are great too (401k, food, unlimited PTO). One of my favorite things is that there definitely seems more to be a growth mindset (and not a dick contest).
It's too new to know about career growth or promotions but I'd say everything else is great. Just be careful if you yourself are upper management. (With that said - you can be promoted to a low-level manager if your team is growing fast enough and you step up to the plate.)
Cool Kids are building toy car that can work in very specific set of conditions to get more funding. Hacky engineering mindset, lots of politics
Way better than Google or LinkedIn (although we don't have dessert)
Granted that's a single day data point in every case.