Company is in a cultural death spiral - Software Engineer Zoox Employee Review

2.0
Jan 31, 2026
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Pros

Outstanding food, mostly nice peers

Cons

I do not recommend interviewing here. The company is making slow and steady progress toward commercial service, but it's becoming a terrible place to work. In the few years I've worked here we've gone from "managers, your employees are really hard to replace, let's plan effectively and execute at a sustainable pace" to "employees, please don't burn yourselves out" to a new program called "weekend push" where anyone might be required to work seven days a week with little or no notice. My entire department is working 60-80hrs/wk. Close to zero equity growth. Below market compensation. Benefits are decreasing each year. No internal training or professional growth. New hires are down-leveled and long-term employees are universally under-leveled. The only way to get promoted is to throw a fit and threaten to leave at a critical time. If you're coming from outside the bay area then this might be a step up in compensation, but the best people quickly jump ship to somewhere else. This company is a career dead end.

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5.0
Jul 7, 2026
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Pros

Good work, good teammate’s. Good projects

Cons

I don’t see many cons work gets difficult sometimes

4.0
Jul 7, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Best things in sequence - Food (breakfast, lunch, dinner), Very nice office environment, not high-pressure performance stress, mostly slow. I am very optimistic about their future.

Cons

Pay is on the lower side; most engineers are imported from Michigan - but still they say we are in Bay Area for the Talent lol. They don't always hire the best of the bunch - Interview is easy overall. Hiring friends/friends of friends might be a thing, who knows. Employee retention is an issue.

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