Poor WLB, high stress, high chaos, no strategy - Anonymous employee Zoox Employee Review

1.0
Jan 3, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Amazon aquisition means Zoox will survive and will ultimately deliver.

Cons

You are expected to work 10-12 hours a day with no respite. Young ambitious kids have become team managers here, but they are inexperienced and over ambitious and do not know how to manage teams at all. No long term planning, naive and aggressive timelines, and complete chaos with lack of strategy or planning. No stocks are given to employees. Just SARS which is an annual cash bonus. Employee retention is a huge problem and is due to employee burn out, but Management's "solution" is to increase hiring instead of fixing the underlying issues, especially the lack of work life balance.

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5.0
Jul 7, 2026
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Pros

Good work, good teammate’s. Good projects

Cons

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4.0
Jul 7, 2026
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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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