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 44 reviews)); "Great benefits as an Alphabet company." ((in 30 reviews)); "The pay is good." ((in 28 reviews)); "Brilliant coworkers" ((in 15 reviews)); "Free food and bragging rights that I worked on a self driving car." ((in 8 reviews))

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

"Bad work life balance." ((in 11 reviews)); "And Waymo takes their time to hire another manager so current one has to do double work." ((in 8 reviews)); "Poor upper management." ((in 6 reviews)); "Disorganized leadership and ambiguous instructions." ((in 6 reviews)); "No growth opportunities for contractors" ((in 5 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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289 reviews

1.0

Jun 19, 2020

Now there's no reason to stay

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The only Pros were the perks: the beautiful office space, the delicious food, the easy commute. With Covid/WFH, the realities of Waymo are only more clear, and the glitter of fancy perks is just a fading memory.

Cons

Where to begin: - Sr management is pretty political. There are often land-grabs and some pretty high turn-over - There's not much direction at this point. Technical progress is stalling and the team is getting restless. - We are bleeding talent. Progress in the industry is stalling, but it might be worse here because the best guys have moved on

1.0

Sep 18, 2020

Waymo tolerates sexual harassment

Fleet operations

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Free water and ramen, I guess, if food is more important to you than being treated with value, dignity and respect.

Cons

To name one... Waymo has fired a woman for reporting sexual harassment and they tried to cover it up. Waymo is not an equal opportunity workplace and does not protect the rights of women when bringing harassment to light.

1.0

Mar 18, 2018

Not Entirely Pleasant

Vehicle operator

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

* Meals * Interesting work environment * Your coworkers are your best friends

Cons

Adecco/Waymo was a stressful and tense work environment. Myself as well as my colleagues were treated like second class citizens in the work place and poorly informed of processes and how things would work internally. It was entirely a smoke & mirrors showing with Adecco poorly communicating with Waymo on the needs of its employees. Many policies that were freshly implemented were done so haphazardly and in a hasty manner. Witnessed fellow coworkers being treated poorly be Adecco management. There is little retention of employees, disposing of them casually. This was a seriously negative experience with only a few reasons to enjoy what I was doing.

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