What’s the inside scoop about Cruise? -culture -wlb -leadership -projects -teams -eng tooling -tech debt -tech stack Can people share their experiences and thoughts before the posts get flagged and removed? DM me if you can share info! if you’re ex-cruiser, currently at cruise, interviewed and turn down their offers, or working at competing companies. (willing to share my intel) TC: 450k YOE: 7
Seriously? Are you not following Blind posts about Cruise and it's horrendous culture. Stay away dude. Seriously. I'm entering my second year here, and it's only getting worse.
Please, share some examples.
@yxzcyx the VP RND is an ex-Amazonian who has brought with him from Amazon all of the worst behaviors. Including hire and fire, stack and yank, irrelevant time pressure, and expectations for 200% throughput. In essence, these boil down to an extremely intense and uncompromising working environment, where people are constantly working in fear of retaliation from management. People are afraid to take risks because heads get chopped. There is no place for WLB, and people regularly work 12+ hours a day. Add to all this the fact that the company has been attracting only people who are compliant, and you get a system where you really don't want to be the odd one out who wants to go spend the afternoon with your family. I have many friends in the company, there are some great and talented people there, and most of them are thinking of leaving. It is literally one of the worst working environments I've been to and I myself am on the way out. If any of what I told you sounds appealing, please do join.
I have been here 4 years and things are improving dramatically across the board. Past two years are significantly better than first two. No company is perfect but I assure you our blind posts are extremely negatively biased. Reality is not perfect but way better than portrayed here by a few. My bet is on Cruise to win the race.
Don't think culture is that horrible but certainly isn't great. My team has decent WLB. There are a few issues with people at staff level having big egos without that strong of a technical background, and kind of being petty tyrants. To me, most EMs (at least on the perception/tracking/prediction) side are alright, especially those hired more recently, and culture problems come more from the ICs (usually but not always staff level) leading projects.
I work with a staff level Engineer at MLP who is horrendous. Not only is he incompetent, but his idiot manager is safe guarding him. Know why? Cause coincidently they are both Chinese. This would not have happened anywhere else. But at Cruise it is happening and this is one example.
You mean xun kang ?
Cruise needs better middle managers, but you need to be high performing for meets expectations. However, leadership seems to be a little more sensitive to the struggles of WFH recently
Not according to Glassdoor reviews. Look at this fluff post from mgmt
I’m generalizing of course but there are good ones out there like any large company. To their credit, Cruise is investing in a lot of manager training. Unfortunately, there also seems to be a lack of trust or alignment between SLT and middle management
I was about to recommend a thread I made with a lot of pointns about the AV industry from user qibudtm, but it looks like cruise censorship team already made their rounds: https://www.teamblind.com/post/2OjKaAHG?cid=9256974. I guess the takeaway here is that Cruise HR team is doing well Edit: Didn't notice OP's commented there already lol
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Agreed, but public posts are more informative for everyone. This actually motivated me to reach out to blind about this issue. Has their HR team heard of the Streisand effect?
Where are the Cruise Bulls? I’m interested in joining. A few friends left to join, found it odd considering they’d be taking a pay cut for Monopoly money, but the mission does seem intriguing. What compels people to stay and believe in the AV dream?
It depends on your level but remember you will receive a portion of your income in Cruise RSUs. So you have to be a believer in the mission.
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I heard it’s around $10-15/share and around $200-400k in paper money
Based on what valuation for the company? Of how many outstanding obdiluted shares are out there