Rivian

1. Learning opportunity and a good launchpad to further your career.

2. Business and go-to-market strategy.

3. The Rivian R1T makes a good filter for good-natured people to join the company. However, while I was at the company, I could never find the management following it in spirit. It has been followed strategically and selectively to move the agenda forward and attract talent cheaply. In either case (though deceptive), using a people policy to strategically motivate the team is a better approach. I hope this is only a growing pain and does not become systemic of Rivian.

1. The lofty ideals in paper do not materialize in reality.
2. The people's experience of managers is abysmal, very demotivating to an extent that it makes you leave the company.
3. What you did is immaterial if the forces in Irvine/manager could not decipher it. The organization is skewed towards Irvine; it's better to be in their good books.

If you are deciding based on this review, try to join the company in Irvine for better visibility and growth.

Your feedback process is biased. Please be open to listening to contributors, given their blood and sweat in building the organization. If you are not sure, just ask them whom to ask for it.

Your current process is skewed to find evidence for the top brass's preconception or witch-hunt.