Bad work-life balance, impossible deadlines - Senior Machine Learning Engineer Cruise Employee Review

2.0
Aug 8, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Good pay - Skilled colleagues - Remote work possible - Cruise is one of the best companies in the self-driving cars industry

Cons

- Working on perception and machine learning implies undergoing extreme workloads. - Management sets impossible deadlines. Deadlines don’t take into account the estimated duration of tasks and team capacity. They are often set based on the next release date, and the team has to compress all the work in that time window. - Extremely stressed atmosphere which makes the work not enjoyable. People are too stressed to be able to enjoy what they do.

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Cons

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Cons

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