May Mobility reviews

May is the most interesting, diverse, quirky, intelligent group of people I've ever been welcomed into. Working at May for 3 years, starting when there were only 20 people, growing to over 100 has been dizzying and magical. It has been pretty much the best way to learn the nitty gritty of building a complex company from nothing, as good as it gets, if yer into that kind of thing. Seeing and understanding the how and why of company building as it happens, rather than just finding ourselves in an environment that's already set up and mature like a large well established facebook, just invaluable and rare to get to be a part of... Not to mention that omg, really, I get to design autonomous vehicles?! I wonder if we do enough to empower people to shape May into the company they want it to be, cultivating the attitudes necessary to make doing that hard thing possible... It's definately part of the job, and maybe some people aren't used to having such lattitude to shape the environment as we grow. For me the growth has been amazing, in that we get to focus more on our strengths and interests over time, filling in the gaps as we hire. We're all figuring out how to do this together. It's not just set up to work well, we need to actually make it what we want, the hard way, by trying stuff. Just my 3-year perspective, looking forward to another 3 years, it NEVER gets boring.

- The leadership and people at May legitimately care about each other - Especially the leadership at May Mobility truly seems to believe in the mission, vision, and values of the company - The technology that May is developing isn't being designed to create robotaxis for the rich, or some fun novelty for people in the industry, but, instead, a true transportation solution for people of all demographics - Even pre-COVID, work was flexible: the company offers terrific benefits for family leave, flexible work-from-home schedules, daily core hours between 10am and 4pm and freedom to self-determine one's own work schedule, and other ways in which to tailor work schedule to your life - Individual managers work - in my experience - incredibly hard to emphasize mental and emotional health and work-life balance. This isn't something that I can say with certainty for all people, but in my experience with my team and my managers this has been a plus. May offers unlimited Paid Time Off, and while of course this can be challenging to take advantage of in a fast-paced startup environment, I've never gotten the sense that taking vacation was faux-pas or frowned-upon, and I take every effort to encourage my team to take time whenever they can and need it. - The people are incredible. I've never worked with a team of people so committed to their cause and with the skills and competencies to back it up. - The work is fun! Not all days are good, but the results are legitimately cool and satisfying.