Pros
The people at May are fantastic, passionate, and capable. The May Mobility mission and vision really differentiate the company from competitors in the space, and everyone from the executive leadership down keep them core to all conversations and work at May. May’s culture is light-hearted and fun, and for determined and hardworking contributors there is ample opportunity for growth and recognition. The company does a good job of engaging its entire workforce, making space for fun, and the benefits and flexibility offered are good. May can be a great place to work in the right roles for a while and for someone looking for a specific sort of experience or opportunity.
Cons
Senior leadership has been a revolving door - C-level executives come in and out, as do director- and VP-level leaders. With each change comes new approach, emphasis, and priorities and May spends as much time changing tack as it does moving forward. The leadership within the people team at May talk out of both sides of their mouth; in attempting to prepare May for growth they have implemented relatively rigid and frankly weird policies about growth and promotion, not to mention that compensation at May cannot hope to punch with competitors in the AV space. Performance evaluations are improving, but it still seems to take far longer than appropriate to remove or otherwise correct people who are not doing their jobs, putting an even greater burden on those who do perform well. People who do perform at an exceptional level are frequently blocked from promotion for apparently arbitrary reasons. The biggest concerns have to do with funding. May’s technology outperforms many competitors but the company has only been able to raise less than 1/10th of most of its true competitors seems bad. Adding to that is that public transit is based on economics and autonomous vehicles are a long way away from being viable versus traditional transit methods. The outlook doesn’t seem very positive, honestly.