A rewarding but very challenging job - Software Engineer Cruise Employee Review

5.0
Apr 18, 2017
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Pros

The people are very smart. We do proofs for fun and hold employee organized talks about things like the topology of quaternions. The problems are interesting and unsolved. You will have the opportunity to advance the field of autonomous vehicles. Well thought out process and infrastructure for same-day testing of new code on actual live vehicles in San Francisco. Manufacturing and financial support from our parent company GM. Good work is recognized and very well compensated.

Cons

High time pressures sometimes force us to commit to a particular algorithm when a strictly better one may be hiding somewhere around the corner. Sometimes the technical challenges that need to be solved can seem overwhelming

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