Toxic leadership, no accountability
Toxic leadership, no accountability
Rivian's product is pretty amazing. People working on the ground are highly motivated, hard workers, and determined. Good pay.
Rivian has the most toxic leadership that I've come across in the last 10 years of professional engineering. My experience echoes others. Their leadership is focused on putting up roadblocks, injecting unnecessary bureaucracy, and surrounding themselves in an echo chamber. My senior manager was unable to let anyone on their team execute their job without micromanaging them. His actions felt discriminatory to me and the other women on the team. When I tried to address these concerns up the chain of command, they fell on deaf ears. I had a senior director tell me I was being a "drama queen." Come to find out that not only were it me and the other women on my team, these behaviors were echoed from other internal teams as well as external resources. Their leadership fails all the way up to RJ if they are unable to hold lower-level leaders accountable.
Get rid of your toxic leadership and promote your hard workers.
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Software Engineer (Internship)
One 2-hour interview that included behaviorals and small technical questions (resume-based, not LeetCode, no live coding). They seemed to really emphasize team fit and past projects. Smooth process; I had to reschedule my interview, and they were a
Manufacturing Engineer
During my first interview with the company, the recruiter was 10 minutes late to the call. He mistook me for another position, asking me questions related to a different role and correcting himself mid-interview after hearing my responses.
Supplier Quality Engineer
I was referred to Rivian through a contact in my network and was encouraged to apply for a position close to my current one. I applied in March, but then the COVID shutdown happened. I didn't hear anything from Rivian until I followed up with my cont
Software Engineer (Internship)
United StatesMarch 1, 2022One 2-hour interview that included behaviorals and small technical questions (resume-based, not LeetCode, no live coding). They seemed to really emphasize team fit and past projects. Smooth process; I had to reschedule my interview, and they were a
Manufacturing Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesJuly 1, 2021During my first interview with the company, the recruiter was 10 minutes late to the call. He mistook me for another position, asking me questions related to a different role and correcting himself mid-interview after hearing my responses.
Supplier Quality Engineer
Plymouth, Michigan, United StatesJuly 1, 2020I was referred to Rivian through a contact in my network and was encouraged to apply for a position close to my current one. I applied in March, but then the COVID shutdown happened. I didn't hear anything from Rivian until I followed up with my cont
