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Skydio reviews

3.8

63% would recommend to a friend

(168 total reviews)

Adam Bry

79% approve of CEO

86% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.9

Career opportunities

3.7

Culture & values

3.6

Compensation and benefits

3.4

Senior management

3.3

Diversity & inclusion

3.0

Work/Life balance

Skydio has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 168 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Skydio employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

Ratings by demographic groups

Reviews by job title

168 reviews
1.0
Mar 1, 2025

Good company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They buy you food and parties all the time

Cons

Start up environment, prone to terminate and lay off many employees

4.0
Nov 21, 2024

Great team, exciting product, growing pains that are being addressed

Autonomy engineer
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Skydio has done a great job hiring - I feel like every person I work with is awesome at what they do and also are humble and friendly, a great combination that is explicitly mentioned as being a priority in our culture. If there's any downside to this it's that it's maybe harder to stand out than at other companies I've worked for. Our product is out in the real world, which is relatively rare for robotic related startups. Our mission has become more controversial, but I personally think working in utilities, public safety and ICR defense applications is bigger upside than helping snowboarders make cool videos. As our CEO aptly says, impact trumps purity. The pay is solid, and the stock package is plausibly going to be very lucrative. There is a focus on shipping real working functionality and a pragmatic approach that scopes bike shedding. Has been a big investment in developer tooling that has massively improved things in the past couple of years.

Cons

Awkward transition from very flat org to having sufficient management. Better than having *bad* managers, but the existing (very technical and devoted) managers are spread too thin and it seems most people manage themselves and Skydio relies heavily on each person being very proactive. That's ok to a certain degree, but people could use more attention to career guidance and personal development. On a related note, people seem to either sink or swim. Most people swim, but there have been a couple of instances where someone was let go who I feel could have thrived with better guidance. Not great work / life balance. If you have the confidence to stop working, it can be ok (nobody is demanding you work weekends), but balance is not overtly promoted, and too high a percentage of the attaboys are related to working nights / weekends.

2.0
Sep 11, 2024

A National Embarrassment

Autonomy engineer
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Defense sales means stock is valuable * Work life balance is good

Cons

* Company is a national embarrassment; Ukraine chose to buy DJI instead of using Skydios they got for free * Management doesn’t prioritize making core autonomy work reliably, only interested in new features * Infrastructure and tooling extremely poor, extremely frustrating working environment * Very old and slow moving company resistant to change

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