Is GM Cruise LLC a good company to have a long term career?
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
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
Wow that doesn't sound good especially for something that is suppose to drive itself at high speeds.
Everyone and their dog is building toy cars that can work on very specific set of conditions. If you have a better idea on how to eat the elephant, please don’t post it here. You of course should start your own startup and show everyone how it’s done. And no, before everyone gets all concerned. Hacky in this case doesn’t mean irresponsible. With all the hype in the industry people need to adjust their expectations. It’s prototype software on very much prototype hardware. Do agree there’s lot of politics. Maybe when we hire next batch of execs it will get better.
It might be because recruiter resigned and many moved to HR
I thought so too, but recruiting coordinator didn't hint at that when I tried to follow up through her instead
I really enjoyed interviewing there and probably would have taken the job if Atlassian hadn't come through. That said, I'm a little spooked by some of the things I've heard about the SoftBank investment and changes in the equity comp structure (I think I would have come in on the old one but the timing would bave been close.)
The food they serve for employees is not that good. My stomach is my boss and my advisor. Oink oink.
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)
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.
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.
Considering leaving goog for cruise, can you speak more specifically to the difference in experience?
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.)
I fucking love Cruise.
Well, looks like I dodged a bullet. Atlassian isn't perfect but 6 months in it is pretty darn good.
+1 — Got contacted by a recruiter