How's the atmosphere over there? Any Woven Planet folks here?
Any Toyota research institute people out there? How's the comp, benefits, culture?
TRI pays well and has great benefits. Very research oriented culture since most of the leadership team are from academic. Not sure about Woven.
Would you say TC is comparable to what levels.fyi has for Lyft right now?
Nvidia is hiring for AV. Just saying.
TRI treats its people well. Uncertain what it will be like after Woven takes charge and L5 joins the fam.
I think it matters what you compare it to. Lyft is paying better than any other AV company. Being “treated well” might not cut it for people that have been spoiled by crazy high TC.
Woven Planet sounds like a discount clothing store.
I really wonder how they intend to retain those highly paid L5 people. Woven Planet or formerly Toyota Research Institute Advanced Development offers peanut TC for their Tokyo office. Either L5 people will flee or Tokyo staff is gonna riot once they learn that their L5 colleges make 5x their TC
I am in TRI for 2 yrs. I worked in other av company before. What I know is Toyota has been pretty patient and well informed on how hard L4 autonomy is. There are many top talents in TRI. You can check their publications and talks. The pay is competitive even compared with google/FB for good performers and the culture is very bottom up and liberal. It is less a top down company working like a machine but rely more on organic growth from the team. As a result, Toyota is not the fastest player at this time, but like a marathon, if you push too hard at the beginning and treat it like a sprint, it is not a good strategy. Toyota knows it is a marathon, it will maintain a good pace to win at last.
Future colleagues from Lyft, please Feel free to ask me anything.
We have beer and bbq every Thursday before the pandemic :)
Meaningless if TC is lower
I just work there. All I can offer and I believe most TRI folks can offer is a healthy inclusive culture and respect to talent and not treating individuals like coding monkeys. As for compensation, it is Silicon Valley, I think top talent will stay or leave without worrying about opportunities.
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Woven is an absolute shitshow. No talent, no tech, no competitive pay.
Ouch. That hurts 😅
And you know all that exactly how? Either provide details or stfu