Is GM Cruise LLC a good company to have a long term career?

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Jul 23, 2018 23 Comments

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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  • I have completely the opposite impression of everyone here... best place I’ve worked, including GOOG FB. I’ve accomplished more here than the others combined.
    Jul 23, 2018 1
  • I'm pretty happy. We're definitely going through growing pains. With that said, I've been here longer than most of the company now so I've seen the stuff that's happened.

    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.)
    Jul 23, 2018 0
  • No, it’s a huge mess. Be careful.

    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
    Jul 23, 2018 7
  • The food they serve for employees is not that good. My stomach is my boss and my advisor. Oink oink.
    Jul 23, 2018 2
    • Nope, it's the best (unless you hate vegetarian food, which we have once per week).

      Way better than Google or LinkedIn (although we don't have dessert)
      Jul 23, 2018
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      Luffy, M.D

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      I can confirm that when I was up for a candidate lunch, they had really good food compared to any of the other smaller single shared lunch places I interviewed at.

      Granted that's a single day data point in every case.
      Jul 24, 2018
  • Cruise Automation / Other
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    I fucking love Cruise.
    Jul 28, 2018 0