For some reason, I can't review this company on Glassdoor, but I hope to write the review so that people can take my review as part of the decision-making process. Disclaimer: This is my personal experience during my time, and please don't take it as advice. Thanks! Overview: A startup that moves 3 steps forward, then 2 steps backward Pro: - genuinely great and nice people to work with - interesting problem to be tackled with interesting technology - Company at a good location, where brewery and bike terrain is just within walking distance - You can work on pieces of stuff that have an impact on the company's operation Con: - conservative senior leadership with ambitious goals equal to nothing really gets done - lack of diversity in this company sometimes creates a blindside of decision - high turnover where people are leaving almost every other week - although there are many planning meetings happening among departments, it still always have communication gap and expectation gap even though the company size is small and creates frustration and confusion for the people below - many people have title inflation, where many of them lack the knowledge or experience to execute their responsibility on their position level - the company would let people go quickly for small reasons instead of working with the employees to empower them - The company keeps the layoff event low profile and provides the image to the public that the company is growing and well funded, whereas others are doing layoffs, which is a shame too. - they just had a layoff recently, and no senior leadership stood out and explained to the former employee. What a shame that senior leaders danced kumbaya to celebrate their new funding while some rockstar employees were layoff, and some just moved their families for the company. - HR lacks support to empower the employees, and this could be part of the reason for the high turnover Advise to management: - proper planning about the company's project, even the hiring plan, will help to reduce tons of unnecessary frustration - be bold and fast with the decision; otherwise, your competitors are going to be better than you (actually, it is happening now) - Severance package is peanuts, which also indicates this company doesn't empower or respect people in an indirect way - Listen to individual contributors seriously instead of just acting like you are listening. The outcome tells us if employees' voice is heard or not. - Don't promise if you are not 100% committed to it. Tons of false and empty promises during the hiring process - The company's culture is only like another slogan on the wall. Execute them well. #startup #outrider #autonomousvehicle #selfdriving
Who are the competitors that are becoming better?
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100% avoid Outrider. The entire leadership team needs to be replaced (especially CEO and CTO) and I’m shocked the investors haven’t taken over yet and put a competent team in place.
Hi there, Just wanted to say thanks for the post. I've been looking at Outrider for a year now and even interviewed some time back then decided not to move forward. My concern when interviewing was how far along the company is commercially. Sounds like they don't have any standalone installations yet. When it comes to adopting new automation in an industry that is a brutal barrier to cross and most don't make it. My company has been working on it for about two decades. I'm curious what work life balance is like there? My gut sense from an interview was there's still lots of scrambling and potentially long hours trying to deliver software day to day.