TORC Robotics reviews

Over the last year it has become clear that new senior leadership does not trust anyone they preside over. That can be the VP's under them all the way down to managers over teams. Every small decision has to run through the CTO and his office (thus it takes forever to get things back). What is the point of middle management if they never make the decisions themselves or the people they preside over and/or are constantly scrutinized without good reason. Senior leadership wants "data driven decisions" (and there is nothing wrong with that). However, when the engineers turn around and provide those data driven decisions, senior leadership make decisions regardless of the data that is handed to them.

If you are considering working here, I recommend you look elsewhere. Torc is a shell of the company it once was: constant re-orgs, growing pains, CTO ambition, aggressive timelines -- there are a number of things to point to. Torc was great when I first started: pay, benefits, good infrastructure, good tooling, people that were committed to making things better and getting to where we need to go. Then we hired a CTO that told us we weren't product-focused, and in the process of redoing things we have gone backwards in many areas. I am a remote employee who feels like my days are limited due to in-office focused decisions. All new engineering positions are in-person in Ann Arbor. Three significant office shuffles have occurred in the last 6 months causing hundreds of people to make tough decisions. They want us to get to a 2027 commercial launch, and yet have destroyed the culture and caused constant pain and change for its employees.