Incompetent, pretentious management
Incompetent, pretentious management
Great food, good work-life balance, and financial security, at least for the time being, with the Amazon acquisition.
The company built its reputation on its urban self-driving capabilities.
The company has been experiencing growing pains as its size doubled last year.
Generally speaking, it does not have good, strong leaders for a young, inexperienced team.
Often, you see an arrogant attitude from management, who are weak technically but strong in opinions, as they view disagreement as a challenge to their authority.
Find good leaders, promote good engineers, not yes-men.
Ninety-five percent of the meetings are status updates, and there are so many of them. What else could this indicate if not a lack of engineering leadership?
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Hardware Engineer
Very young engineers. Most of them are energetic but somewhat naive about hardware development. I would say about one-third of the people interviewed know what they are talking about.
Mechanical Design Engineer
Grilled on technical questions from resume for the first round. I did not make it past this round. Emphasis on projects I have worked on. Know them in and out. The interviewer was tough, very rushed and specific.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Very long process. The interviews weren’t bad, but they need to move faster. They have a unique math interview which is fun. Other than that, standard coding, ML design, and behavioral interviews.
Hardware Engineer
United StatesMarch 11, 2019Very young engineers. Most of them are energetic but somewhat naive about hardware development. I would say about one-third of the people interviewed know what they are talking about.
Mechanical Design Engineer
Foster City, California, United StatesOctober 28, 2025Grilled on technical questions from resume for the first round. I did not make it past this round. Emphasis on projects I have worked on. Know them in and out. The interviewer was tough, very rushed and specific.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
United StatesOctober 13, 2025Very long process. The interviews weren’t bad, but they need to move faster. They have a unique math interview which is fun. Other than that, standard coding, ML design, and behavioral interviews.
