Is Waymo a good company to work for?

Waymo has an overall rating of 4.0 out of 5, based on over 476 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has increased by 1% over the last 12 months. 69% of employees would recommend working at Waymo to a friend and 68% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Waymo have been left by employees working as Software Engineer , Software Quality Operations Associate and Senior Software Engineer .

Does Waymo pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Waymo employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Waymo. This rating has improved by 5% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Waymo?

69% of Waymo employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Waymo 3.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.0 for culture and values and 3.9 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Waymo?

Software Engineer (54) , Senior Software Engineer (23) , Software Quality Operations Associate (19) , Program Manager (9) , Vehicle Operator (9) , Autonomous Vehicle Operator (8) , Fleet Response Specialist (7) , Hardware Engineer (7) , Systems Engineer (6) , Technical Program Manager (6) , Data Scientist (5) , Driver (5) , Engineer (5) , Operations (4) , Software Engineer (Swe II) (4)

What are the pros of working at Waymo according to real employee reviews?

"The people were great and very knowledgeable." ((in 40 reviews)); "Pay and Benefits are great" ((in 31 reviews)); "The pay is good." ((in 26 reviews)); "Great teams and people are very friendly" ((in 18 reviews)); "2. Talented coworkers and good opportunities to learn new technology." ((in 15 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Waymo according to real employee reviews?

"inconvenient working hours, inexperienced managers, lack of communication" ((in 12 reviews)); "Disorganized leadership and ambiguous instructions." ((in 6 reviews)); "awful communication, terrible feedback, not considerate of contractors (which comprise more than 80% of the workforce on some teams)" ((in 6 reviews)); "TVC churn is highly exploitative; upper management extremely resistant to increase FTE quotas" ((in 5 reviews)); "Overly bloated management, average appreciation for work and exceeding expectations, little growth opportunity." ((in 4 reviews))

What are employees saying about Waymo layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Waymo layoffs and their outlook for job security at Waymo in 2026.

What Waymo locations have received the highest employee ratings?

Novi , San Jose , San Francisco , Mountain View , Detroit

Waymo reviews

4.0

69% would recommend to a friend

(289 total reviews)

Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov

86% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.2

Diversity & inclusion

4.0

Culture & values

4.0

Compensation and benefits

3.9

Career opportunities

3.8

Senior management

3.5

Work/Life balance

Waymo has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 289 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Waymo employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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Reviews by job title

289 reviews

3.0

Aug 18, 2023

Mixed feelings

Fleet operations technician

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

You get to work with some bright people and make great connections. You're working on cutting-edge tech and potentially becoming a part of autonomous history. Compensation is good with great benefits. Team inclusion and diversity is strong. Safety is a big concern of Waymo's.

Cons

Poor communication at times from team to team. The Organizational structure is poor with inconsistencies among leads/managers. The company tries to bite off more than it can chew, often leaving employees feeling overworked and burnt out. Not surprising as there have been tons of layoffs this year. Some roles feel stunted with no real opportunity to grow past a certain level.

4.0

Jun 21, 2022

Google-like benefits w/ 8-5 work life balance.

Technical program manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

World leader in autonomous vehicle development with vehicles already on the road in SF and Phoenix. Great work life balance, apart from the last-minute crunch associated to each quarterly software cut.

Cons

Slow pace of development and improvement. Less of a startup environment and more metric driven.

3.0

Jan 27, 2022

Great benefits, bad work-life balance

Analyst

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits as an Alphabet company. But not as many company-wide days off as Google in the pandemic. Smart and humble coworkers to work with Interesting work

Cons

Bad work life balance. So many people I know work long hours, not sure which teams really have good work-life balance as written in other reviews. It’s hard to get promotion (probably even harder than Google), and no clear career growth path in some teams. Managers are hit or miss, probably the influence from the Google culture of promoting good IC’s, who are not necessarily good people managers. Start up, so almost no equity liquidity, translating into overall low cash flow in the expensive Bay Area. But of course, for people who can wait longer time, you might be paid off.

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