Rigetti Computing reviews

Intense environment with highly ambitious goals for the technology and business - definitely has an impact on level of work/life balance across the team. I don't hear people complaining about doing the work - in fact, it's the opposite - but the company needs to be mindful about how long this pace can be sustained. The company has grown so quickly that better communication on our goals and the awesome things that are happening will help motivate people even more. There is strong communication between adjacent departments, but could be much better across the board on business goals and in highlighting achievements of various departments.

As one of these more senior scientists/engineers I struggle regularly with: 1. Lack of a clear job description and responsibilities. 2. Many employees feel used like a pawn and moved around every month. 3. Egocentric CEO (Chad Rigetti, founder), who lacks basic management skills and overestimates his technical reach. If he is in a meeting with key managers/engineers, debate is discouraged, orders are given (often yelled), and fear for upcoming deadlines is often the only thing conveyed by him. This is the cause of chaotic and weak management, prone to prioritization of short term actions (despite the huge amount of breakthroughs yet to happen for this technology to ever materialize). 4. Ambitious, smart and hard-working engineers becoming demotivated is unfortunately frequently seen as a result of bad management. 5. Overworked employees.