Joby Aviation reviews

There are some toxic personalities which hold lead/chief roles and this can heavily degrade morale and team cohesion on those teams. Advancement and leadership roles are not based on merit, experience, or understanding so much as on who is friends with who. This is causing some holes to form in the company cohesion, some gaps in understanding, lack of correct decision making, and real consequences to morale of many of the team members. Diversity is improving rapidly, but is still lacking. People who raise concerns about managers/leads can find themselves subsequently undermined and treated exceptionally disrespectfully.

Outrageous disconnect between leadership and the engineers on the ground. There's no rhyme or reason to decision-making outside of what will make Toyota or other investors happy, OR whatever is needed to prop up the stock whenever some other player makes a move. Tons of time and effort spent working on approaches that were shown to be no good months previously, and the boomerang of revisiting work to correct the shortcuts taken before is endless. It's a merry go round of effort lacking direction, and the burnout is SO real. I can't recommend this job in good conscience, not for the money they pay. Oh and your raise will only be in RSUs that you won't sell because it's worth nothing until anything is certified.... which needs a miracle to happen on time.