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      NIO reviews

      3.7

      61% would recommend to a friend

      (366 total reviews)

      William Li

      66% approve of CEO

      28% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      NIO has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 366 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The NIO employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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      366 reviews
      1.0
      Jan 31, 2018

      Worst leadership ever!

      Staff software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Free food if it counts

      Cons

      Way too many politics for a startup. Promotions were favoritism based and mainly for those who can talk. Hard work were never appreciated. All the teams are trying to hide information from each other. No cooperations at all. Every meeting became a blame game. Quite a few teams were hired for no reason, they didn't contribute at all!! Stock options were wasted on early bad hires, lots of good candidates didn't join because of uncompetitive offer.

      1.0
      Jan 30, 2018

      Do not come if you have other choices. This is not a startup.

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good PR, Good Concept, China team is doing something eye opening. Some interesting problem to solve. Current leader in China EV startup industry

      Cons

      No management, no transparency from management, no timeline, no quality control for both hiring and product. Most ppl just want to keep their jobs

      2.0
      Jan 29, 2018

      Some good, mostly bad

      Compiler of computrons
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good, free lunches, modern building and work environment, convenient location and healthy investment in general day to day infrastructure that sometimes gets overlooked. Had a pleasant experience working across teams with some very talented individuals. Communications team very talented. The team I was hired into was beyond excellent and I am still great friends with all of them today - an anomaly for this company.

      Cons

      Politics, politics, and more politics. Many teams have absolutely abysmal leadership which caused employee flight, but those leaders are in turn protected by even less competent upper management. This has led to massive "brain drain" in the company in all but a few departments which do have good, if indirect, leadership. Severe misunderstanding of what it takes to ship a successful car from all of upper management. Very poor internal communications from the top down. Many in upper management didn't even know what my group did because they never paid attention in any of the many meetings where we had to report the status of our projects to them. Toilets that don't flush. Seriously, this is embarrassing to even have to mention here, but the plumbing in the San Jose office is terrible. Good luck finding a bathroom stall that functions post-lunch. In summary: a very typical ex-Cisco CEO running yet another startup into the ground.

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      NIO Response
      8y
      We're disappointed to hear your experience at NIO was not positive. In order to accomplish our vision, we’ve hired great talent and grown quickly to bring a vehicle to market. As we’ve rapidly grown, sometimes information doesn’t filter down as quickly as some people need. We pride ourselves on having an open culture that encourages people to come forward with any issues, either through their manager or directly to the CEO. We are an exception in this regard. NIO is taking on one of the most challenging industries in the world and necessitates a level of leadership and communication that is difficult for some to achieve.
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