Pros
- You will get a paycheck, although women get payed less than men under certain SE managers. - Great for contractors as they let them make hiring decisions(lmao rip). - Great for recent graduates or inexperienced coders to build their resume. With practically no code reviews you can get your code into prod quickly to meet arbitrarily incepted deadlines created by people who lack the technical know-how of whichever specific problem-domain the issue revolves around. - Company is well funded as Saudi's try to invest their oil money around the world. - Great for manager payout ($$$) as the company unfairly distributes stock/options to managers and contractors over lower employees that push the most work. - If you don't keep up to date with the software industry and want to build your resume by overhyping your achievements, this company is great for you.
Cons
- My code was stolen by other engineers who wanted to take credit. I was the only one at the entire company who knew how to implement a specific UI design correctly and once other employees felt like I 1-up'd them in no time at all, they stole code snippets(changed variable names/etc) and took credit over the weekend, after I worked 80+ hours a week, just like the CEO asked me too. There is a constant pattern of managers setting up employees under them to take blame via Jira/GitLab activity humping and what I like to call, perspective control. Upper management only knows what to think based off what managers under them tell them, so on and so forth. - Reputation laundering runs rampant at all levels of management. When managers create reports about themselves you can only imagine how things unfold over long periods of time; echo chamber management, they don't want to hear what they don't want to hear, so they don't say or report it. Even the reviews on Glassdoor are scoured by lawyers who contact Glassdoor to take them down all the time. HR even frequently pushes for employees to leave quick reviews via emails/promotions/etc because they know when experienced software engineers read about them on this website, they will probably hard pass on the company. - HR is only for show and virtue signaling to all employees to create the illusion that they actually care. Reports and complaints to them are considered inconveniences that they don't want to hear and they actively try to get rid of anyone that writes complaints. Brain dead. - Without proper oversight of software, people will probably die on initial product release, due to the nature of a moving vehicle(there is a reason the initial car launch keeps being pushed back). The company has for a long period of time struggled to get their software/firmware up to Silicon Valley standards and have continually been forced to push back the launch of the vehicle(which you can confirm via other Glassdoor reviews). This is for many reasons but mostly due to the fact that top-tier software engineers/managers do not want to work at this company and if they do, they encounter the massive pile of dog droppings that is their codebase and immediately jump ship and swim back to shore. - At one point in time there were 90+ engineers under a single manager because HR/recruiters would just throw all new hires under a single person. Yeah, NINETY+, no joke... dufooq? - I wish I was allowed to give technical examples of blatant software incompetence here on Glassdoor, but you are not allowed to give perceived technical specifics as the company will become offended and claim their 'secrets' are out in the open. This is another form of Reputation Laundering, when you are conveniently offended at every possible turn by people revealing your code-base is trash, you play the victim and claim that which makes you look bad is supposed to be a 'secret'. - The company does not walk new-hires through anything. You may not be able to push code to prod for the first few months because they will all refuse to reach out and help you understand how their system and/or process works, we're talking all realms of engineering here having to work together in a car(mechanical, electrical, hardware, firmware, software, etc, etc). All they do is write complicated technical guides and blame people for not being able to understand them. There are so many engineers that join and leave the company who still have no idea what is going on or how things work, because management doesn't care about new hires literally at all, it is a constant game of quantifying blame onto other employees over periods of time to these people. - Company/HR/etc creates the initial illusion that they want to change the world like most other companies in Silicon Valley. Do not fall for it, they want to capitalize on the electric xyz hype and government funding for electric vehicles. The large scale ambition radiating from upper management is a façade as they do not do the most work at the company by any means what-so-ever, and more importantly, they lack the technical know how to hire and manage engineers capable of designing cutting edge products. They hog the most stock/options/etc and give crumbs to new hires and brilliant engineers who don't know any better because they are relatively new to the business world(this will backfire, all pirates jump ship when land is near and the captain is incompetent). The mirage of sophistication at this company is quite large, the cars will have lots of whistles and bells. Investors, do not be fooled.