Great vision and smart people - Autonomy Engineer Skydio Employee Review

5.0
Dec 14, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- We're building a suite of revolutionary products, it's motivating to see the excitement and love around them - It's one of the rare companies that use state of the art algorithms and tech into production; iteration cycles are quick. - People are smart and eager to share their knowledge - Atmosphere and vibes in the office are really good, it is still a startup. There's a culture of getting together for happy hours and fun stuff that I appreciate a lot. - Work life balance is reasonable, it does vary a bit according to the development cycle

Cons

- The upper management strongly believes that employees are better on site than working from home. As a consequence, they'll rather promote people that are in person than remote. - The roadmap is very ambitious as compared to the workforce, which means delivering on time basically never happens. This can feel a bit demotivating.

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5.0
Jun 1, 2026
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Pros

smart people, interesting engineering problems, high real world impact now.

Cons

bad work life balance at times

1.0
Jun 22, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Free food that is about it.

Cons

Management is very very poor. nepotism referrals no experience or bad experience from small companies. I worked in about a dozen places too. This place takes the cake as the worst management. All their manufacturing lines are designed horribly. Some people don't speak English well here can't communicate ideas. They get all pissed off when you ask questions low EQ if you are trying to understand something deeper. High turnover job they slander you. People joking before the shift about how we all are going to get fired before the start of the shift

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