Great pay, benefits, and mission - Senior Embedded Software Engineer Cruise Employee Review

2.0
Oct 17, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Top-notch pay, benefits, and mission - EXCELLENT cash bonus - Allows full-time remote work!

Cons

- SUUUUPER heavy and bureaucratic for a 2500 person company! - virtually no flexibility to do personal growth or learning on work time - 15% pay cut for working remotely - hard push to deadlines - poor work/life balance - squashes engineering ownership and creativity and learning - documentation, code cleanup, and long-term code cleanliness is not only *not* rewarded, it is actively *punished* if you do it on company time and it slows you down from crunching through tickets - transferring internally is probably just as hard as leaving Cruise and re-applying again from the outside

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