Work life balance at Cruise?
I have a product management role offer from Cruise. I was wondering if I could learn about the work life balance in the company?
Depends on team and project I think. Company definitely wants to create the working environment employee like (good benefits and perks), but yet it’s a startup and has target to meet. Overall it’s good I think.
Yes, overall, pretty good, but you basically set your own. I've seen people leaving at 5:30 and I've seen people leaving at 10
It's big enough now that you can coast on 30 hr weeks, collect a decent paycheck, and not get fired. It's also got enough trouble that you can work 80 hr weeks, get payed the same amount as the 30 hr folks and not get promoted.
Does cruise support role changes or org changes? Say I worked in an org for a year and want to move to another team in the same role — is that possible?
Internal transfer is not very difficult, stay 6 months and get approval from manager
Also, say if cruise builds a perfectly safe car to be used on public roads, how will they acquire users? Waymo has google maps as a point of acquisition and Uber/Lyft already have users. Cruise will have to start from scratch to collect users
GM has invested 500M in Lyft valuing Lyft at 5.5 billion in 2016. I don’t know how we will acquire users, but think this info is useful.
How does anyone ever acquire users?Jesus fuck. It’s no secret that uber/lyft compete mostly on price. Barrier to entry is stupid low if you can provide same service at lower price. I’d worry less about acquiring users and more about manufacturing 40,000 cars to service just San Francisco.
Wlb is a more of a personal choice. I have seen ppl enjoying family life at Apple, FB, Amazon and many startups.
Any details on the PM compensation range these days?
You can just cruise all day!