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 43 reviews)); "Great benefits as an Alphabet company." ((in 35 reviews)); "The pay is good." ((in 23 reviews)); "2. Talented coworkers and good opportunities to learn new technology." ((in 15 reviews)); "Fantastic team members working together." ((in 14 reviews))

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

"Bad work life balance." ((in 12 reviews)); "And Waymo takes their time to hire another manager so current one has to do double work." ((in 9 reviews)); "Disorganized leadership and ambiguous instructions." ((in 6 reviews)); "TVC churn is highly exploitative; upper management extremely resistant to increase FTE quotas" ((in 5 reviews)); "No growth opportunities for contractors" ((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

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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

3.0

May 11, 2021

Alright for a temp job, don't expect anything more.

Vehicle operator

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Neat technology. A shadow of google culture for better or worse.

Cons

As a vehicle operator you are somewhat of a second class employee. There are maybe 2% of contractors that move into salaried positions, don't expect that you'll be one of them. By the time I left they were letting contractors go to hire new vehicle operators at lower wages. Also they were reducing the snacks! That used to be a strong point. Come on, Waymo.

4.0

May 6, 2021

Good combination of startup culture and mature infra

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

* Shared a lot Google talent and mature infrastructure. Don't need to waste time on bad infra support.

Cons

* Still some distance away from IPO

4.0

May 2, 2021

Challenging and purposeful work with some of the brightest

Marketing specialist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Innovation meaning and groundbreaking work

Cons

Right deadlines commuting stress and design by committee.

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