Joby Aviation reviews

3.9

69% would recommend to a friend

(26 total reviews)

JoeBen Bevirt

89% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

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5.0
Jan 15, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

--Extremely rewarding project --Ability to grow, mature, and advance in career is unparalleled. --Hyper-focus on safety. --Discipline leaders are highly skilled --Company is not afraid to part ways with under-performing individuals to make way for high-performing teammates.

Cons

--If an employee requires regular adjustment to work plan or hyper-frequent managerial contact, success can be difficult for that employee. --The flat-style organization, while maturing rapidly, can create a sense of a loose coalition of small teams. --Salary on the low side, but fair. --Work force needs diversification, which is happening, to happen faster. Compensation&Benefits: I removed one star for slightly-below-average salary but left four stars due to STELLAR benefits package. Work/Life Balance: I removed two stars due to the effort required to maintain good balance with such an engaged team and rewarding project. If you are not careful, life will become work. Senior Management: I removed one star for a lack of sufficient mid-level planning. Year-to-year planning is wonderful and daily planning is very efficient, but month-to-month level planning needs work. Culture&Values: I removed one star for the lack of fully diverse team. Culture is fantastic, but slightly tainted by homogeneity of work force.

1.0
Nov 4, 2019

The worst “leader” I’ve ever worked for.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Lots of good-natured and highly competent folks trying to bring this project to fruition.

Cons

Absolute naivety and resentful, pig-headed stubbornness from the top. Everything I’ve seen has been under-resourced, over-promised, and under-staffed with a constant compulsion to re-invent the wheel. Continuous pressure to cut corners. You’re not “innovating” when not getting permits for facilities work or not installing fire suppression in workshops. You’re not “innovating” by not having a receiving staff and warehousing. Or trying to run a small industrial complex off of a residential power system. I could go on. Joby Aviation feels like another Adderall-fueled, needlessly frantic Silicon Vally start-up that doesn’t have anything like a long-term plan. My impression is that the founder will bring the company only to the point of acquisition and sell. That’s why everything is “temporary”. Hopefully the good folks he’s managed to get will still have jobs after that.

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