Pros: Great people, cool product, and awesome food.

Cons: Stock options (ZARs) are hard to evaluate and haven't created much value for employees in the past few years.

Pros: Good work-life balance at Zoox

Cons: Long vesting schedule, like 6 years.

Pros: Great culture and WLB! I feel that I'm treated very well here. They do a good job of trying to move fairly quickly without putting too much pressure and stress on us (this may depend on the specific team you're on). Great pay, pretty good benefits. Good people. I like my manager and all of my coworkers. And I have a good impression of Aicha and Jesse, although I haven't really interacted with them yet. Pretty good tech stack. Appropriately high standards for the code and development processes, given the industry we're in. Safety is taken extremely seriously, which is critical for this industry. Interesting work.

Cons: Some growing pains. They are trying to hire a lot of people and are having decent success, but some positions are vacant for a while. A lot of the people who laid the foundations early on have left; sometimes there are knowledge gaps due to this. Some tools we use internally have frequent issues that can be frustrating and make it harder for me to be productive. I dislike our 401k provider. Also, there's no 401k matching. I hear complaints that top positions are too often filled by hiring new people rather than promoting from within. But I don't have firsthand experience of this since I've only been here about 1 year.