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

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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

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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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2.0

Sep 9, 2018

Way-mo work and no life at all

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

All the google benefits, awesome mission and vision

Cons

Too many arrogant people who think too highly of themselves. There is a culture of disrespect because everyone thinks they are the best and it has to be their way or the highway. It gets too competitive. Compensation sucks. On the surface it looks like they overpay for the same job title outside of Google, but keep in mind that Google is known for downgrading your title by 2 levels, so your salary at Google as a manager is still less than your original salary as a director elsewhere.

5.0

Aug 19, 2018

Great Place to Work

Hardware engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Brilliant, tallented coworkers. Fascinating, cutting edge technology. Little bureaucracy. Fast product development. World changing technology potential. Caring leadership.

Cons

Sometimes program schedules are unrealistic and too optimistic.

5.0

Aug 10, 2018

Mechanical Engineer

Senior mechanical engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great environment and smart people Very challenging projects Self management much appreciated. Startup environment Very goof life and work balance

Cons

TVC are frustrated Lack of experience in mass production and science based oriented

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