There is complete lack of psychological safety at this company. The leadership likes to keep everyone on their toes all the time by making life unnecessarily miserable. Majority of the folks that I interact with aren't happy to be working here. My hypothesis on why folks continue to work here are: there is absolutely no time or energy to look for new opportunities; further exacerbated by a brutal job market; and some waiting on the company to do a successful IPO in the next couple of years.
I highly recommend folks on H-1B, OPT and CPT to stay the hell away from this company, as you can be let go at any time without any valid reasons. All the hard work and effort that you have put to build a good life in a foreign country will be at risk if you join.
I saw even folks who been with the company for more than 3-4 years being let go as they were no longer considered valuable. I saw folks who were let go, a few weeks before filing for their H-1B application. I saw folks that were let go and put on PIP after informing their managers about upcoming birth of their child and parental leave. It is only a matter of time for this company to be hit with lawsuits for unlawfully terminating employees.
In my several years of working in corporate America at various companies and industries, I haven't seen such a company that completely lacks empathy and regard for employees physical and mental health.
Speed above all else is the first leadership principle. But at the cost of speed; quality, compliance, safety-criticality and performance of software are all sacrificed and put on back burners.
The leadership consistently exhibits and encourages borderline unethical behaviors such as: lying about the maturity level of products in front of customers; falsely showcasing themselves as thought leaders and industry trend setters in front of c-level, board members and executive customers; using resources that are on-paper committed for one customer to work on projects for several competing customers; to even childish behaviors such as aggressively urging employees to like and promote posts on LinkedIn; forcing existing employees to refer connections for hiring and the list goes on and on and on....
The management is good a creating a mirage and a cult like setup especially for the new college graduates, that joining Applied Intuition is the best thing that could have happened to them.
The company has experience in building simulation products that run at scale on the cloud. But the company doesn’t have experience building safety critical, compliant and high-quality products that can run on thousands of vehicles and responsible for the lives of drivers and passengers. While they are hiring talent from the industry, they are not willing to listen to inputs provided by these experts and instead continue to run their business in the same way that caters to mainly non-safety critical simulation products that run on the cloud and demo/vapor-ware solutions. They instead use these experts as trophies especially the ones from Tesla and parade them around in front of potential customers.
All the recent negative reviews are on point. It is very evident from either 5-star or 1-star reviews, that majority of the critical feedback expressed in the reviews are unfortunately true. Due to the recent spate of negative reviews, it is even possible for the leadership to strongly urge existing employees to add positive reviews to balance and to falsely improve the ratings on Glassdoor.
It is sad to see such an amazing opportunity in front of this company, all thrown to waste with petty behaviors and focusing on all the wrong things.
