Rivian

Great pay, benefits are good, it's a very inclusive environment. It's clean, and the food is decent. Cute town, albeit small and a bit behind the times.

Massive workload, unrealistic timelines, and excessive pressure to produce without proving out the process.

Flawed product design.

Indirect threat of unemployment.

No plan for production fallout.

Poor resource management. This one is a pet peeve: a lot of people got used to WFH recently, but a manufacturing environment requires hands-on engagement and oversight. Zoom meetings don't build things; engineers and technicians with boots on the ground and tools in their hands do.

This feels like just another business built to extract every last bit of value from the workforce with very little regard for the human cost.

Depression and anxiety are rampant here. Sure, a degree of stress is healthy and problems will always keep coming up, but forcing people to give up their lives outside of work and to ignore their health, both mental and physical, is exactly the type of environment that destroys lives in pursuit of adventure? "greatness"? A cooler truck? Not sustainable, not adventurous.

Be better! Be the change! You want to be a disruptive business? Do so by showing people that the churn and burn model is trash and that more can be achieved through empathy and proper planning.

I came here to make the world adventurous forever and to build a better life for my family. I think some aspects are incrementally better, but how would I know?

I leave before my family is awake. I get home after the kids are asleep (6-7 days/week). My wife is growing more distant. I have no time to find or maintain friends outside of this place.

Rivian, you sold me a lie! I, unwittingly, sold the lie to my friends and former colleagues.

I understand that this is a critical time for the company, but you're not managing it properly. You're not making people feel like they are valued, and that's the opposite of innovation. It's the same old thing from just another American corporate cancer.