I'm posting this as a warning to anyone applying to C3.ai. TL;DR – Look elsewhere. I interviewed with 6+ people at C3.ai and eventually got a verbal offer. They told me they just needed to tweak the job description a little and I should reapply to the new role as soon as it went live (in about a week). The updated job description never appeared and they ghosted me for 8 weeks and never contacted me again – despite regular contacts from me. Moral of the story is that the appear to be very disorganized, unprofessional, and sweatshoppy. They require you to be in office 5 days per week and the CEO "TS" hates Google and WFH culture. In fact, TS recently told staff "if you need to leave at 4:00 or 4:30 for your kid's sports game, you should take a day off instead." Look it up. So, unless you like working in the office 5 days per week and licking TS' boots 👅 🥾 , you should look elsewhere and AVOID this AI-wannabe sweatshop. TC: 300k
Never work for a multi-billionaire unless his name is Zuck.
From wallatreeet bets: C3 AI a potential scam? Watch the video, apparently they rebrand the company based on “what’s hot”? Also, a true AI company does not need 12k salespeople. [https://youtu.be/cb44ElJz65U](https://youtu.be/cb44ElJz65U) The lawsuit is about the number of sales people claimed previously. However, major red flag, they keep rebranding to appeal to market - what business are they even in?; 2009 founded as C3 Energy - 2016 rebranded to C3 IOT - 2019 then to C3 AI - Disclaimer; I am not an investor in C3 AI and never will be, for obvious reasons. I don’t have any positions.
A lot companies are afraid to get googliness
Many companies are like this. I remember having similar experiences of interviewing before. Also Google at times ask hard crazy lc questions that many google employees would not be able to solve. I sent that question to many friends who are Google employees and none solved even when they are not in interview settings. I think google at times just wants to bump up interview count and not hire at all wasting candidate time but more importantly putting a ban of 1 year of not applying to role in google. One of my friend who works at Google has a team mate who worked there for 15+ years. He said that person never gave a ‘hire’ for any candidate who he interviewed for Google
To be fair, there is the "luck factor" regarding interviewing because the interviewers are "us" the engineers. We are not a monolith, we are definitely not bias-free, and we may (or may not) be aligned with directives that come from above. There is a reason why there are such wildly different interviewing experiences.
A terrible company does terrible things. Thanks for letting us know, OP. I’ll avoid applying to this company in the future, and encourage others here to do the same. TC: 105K
That last statement seems inconsistent. Core hours at 10-4. Probably most of my days at C3 I left around 4pm It's got its issues but wasn't a terrible place to work. I stayed over 2 years because it didn't have too many major issues. Only left to move to a city without an office. The job offer process is always dumb though
Hi. Can you please elaborate on what your job offer process was like? I also got a verbal offer on Oct 25 and my manager has been in touch with me (last reply 2 days ago). He’s been replying and keeps saying my official/written offer is “awaiting CEO signature”. Should I be concerned?
Nope. The job offers can be done in a day with a team then TS takes six weeks to freaking sign the thing. It's absolutely bonkers and we absolutely lost hires over it.
Sounds about right. Thier interview process was a mess. Couldn't gave me availability for the first round until 2 weeks out. Then they canceled 5 minutes before and requested a reschedule. Got mad when I ghosted them after that.
You dodged a bullet, my friend. It's a scam. They have no real product or potential.
They do have products but they have pivoted so many times now its all a bit spotty...
Terrible company, terrible CEO, terrible managers, toxic culture..it’s a sinking ship..stay away
At least they’re upfront