Boston Dynamics reviews

3.7

64% would recommend to a friend

(14 total reviews)
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Robert Playter

82% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

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1.0
Apr 16, 2025
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Pros

When they were 90 people it was fantastic. Free lunch. Very smart people. Hard problems. Go for a few years but don’t expect to change anything. You won’t be able to. You *will* be pigeon holed.

Cons

Past their prime. Horrible at managing projects. Elevating all the old guard into management positions (with equity, which no one else has) was a disaster. Truly incompetent at managing software projects. Absolutely horrible product quality. Lots of secret discussions. Much politics. Many many bad decisions. An HR dept modeled after Attila the Hun. Most of the old guard are far more interesting in paying for their expensive cars and farms than in producing a quality product. Good people are pushed out, often frustrated beyond belief.

4.0
Mar 26, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Interesting work - Creative, dedicated coworkers - Hands-on experience - Although software folks say the pay is below average, it is above average for mechanical engineering

Cons

- Management doesn't listen to employees - Updated sick time policy encourages coming to the office sick, and discriminates against caregivers and those with medical conditions - Ethics Committee was a group with no real power who met 1 hour per quarter. Clearly just a performative effort to get employees to stop expressing concerns about robot use by law enforcement. - Of the 45 people laid off in December, I know the identities of 9 of them, and only one of those is a white man. Although individual employees have done great things forming DEI affinity groups, management decisions and promotions are not diverse or inclusive. - The "burden of proof" required to get management to support your idea is clearly different for different categories of employee.

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