Chaotic and incompetent management - Senior Software Engineer Cruise Employee Review

1.0
Apr 27, 2019
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Pros

Good base pay, catered lunch

Cons

- Incompetent front line managers. - No goals - No path to promotion (90% receive an OT or "ok" grade and 5% each receive a good and bad because of stacked ranking). - Drama because most of the junior managers are drama queens and new to the role. - Chaotic - I have seen three people in my team fired without notice even though they were competent. The one guy who everyone hates keeps skating along. - HR/Legal is shady and unethical: They took away 50% of everyone's stock incentive plan and basically twisted everyone's arm forcing them to invest in the company. - Not kids and remote friendly. The 1201 office people are forced to commute to the middle of nowhere far away from public transport and they won't let people WFH without filling out a form and getting approval from HR - a process in which the snobby HR people want you to submit photos of your home. - They are burning a billion dollars a year on a product which is far away from seeing the light of the day.

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