Toxic Culture, Cliques, No Psychological Safety - Senior Software Engineer Cruise Employee Review

1.0
Oct 20, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cool mission, the comp seems competitive(until your first tax filing after stock/bonus)

Cons

Poor lower level management. Your manager will give new tasks to complete before you can take a sick day--during a pandemic, at that! The cliques rule every decision and have driven off most of the good engineers and managers who didn't come from the same background. I was honestly shocked at how unethical things are run, across organizations and from top to bottom. Don't even think about speaking up for safety concerns if it could negatively affect your manager's goals for his/her review. Engineers have been leaving in droves and with more engineering projects coming up, Cruise is using contractors to fill in the gaps.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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