Is Waymo a good company to work for as a Sr. Software Engineer?

Sr. Software Engineer professionals working at Waymo have rated their employer with 4.0 out of 5 stars in 23 Glassdoor reviews. This is an average score with the overall rating of Waymo employees being 4.0 out of 5 stars. Search open Sr. Software Engineer Jobs at Waymo now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Sr. Software Engineer interview questions at Waymo .

Does Waymo pay Sr. Software Engineer employees well?

Sr. Software Engineer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Waymo with 4.0 out of 5 stars based on 23 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is equal to the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Sr. Software Engineer salaries at Waymo.

How happy are Sr. Software Engineer professionals working at Waymo?

92% of Sr. Software Engineer employees at Waymo would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has increased by 14% in the past 12 months. Sr. Software Engineer professionals have also rated Waymo with a 4.7 rating for work-life-balance, 4.7 rating for diversity and inclusion, 4.8 rating for culture and values and 4.6 rating for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Waymo?

Software Engineer (54) , Senior Software Engineer (23) , Software Quality Operations Associate (19) , Program Manager (9) , Vehicle Operator (9) , Autonomous Vehicle Operator (8) , Fleet Response Specialist (7) , Hardware Engineer (7) , Systems Engineer (6) , Technical Program Manager (6) , Data Scientist (5) , Driver (5) , Engineer (5) , Operations (4) , Software Engineer (Swe II) (4)

What are the pros of working at Waymo according to real employee reviews?

"The people were great and very knowledgeable." ((in 43 reviews)); "The pay is good." ((in 25 reviews)); "Great teams and people are very friendly" ((in 15 reviews)); "Brilliant coworkers" ((in 14 reviews)); "Free food and bragging rights that I worked on a self driving car." ((in 11 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Waymo according to real employee reviews?

"Bad work life balance." ((in 11 reviews)); "inconvenient working hours, inexperienced managers, lack of communication" ((in 10 reviews)); "Poor upper management." ((in 6 reviews)); "Disorganized leadership and ambiguous instructions." ((in 6 reviews)); "awful communication, terrible feedback, not considerate of contractors (which comprise more than 80% of the workforce on some teams)" ((in 5 reviews))

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Item: Waymo
Rating: 1
Author: Current employee - Senior Software Engineer

4.0

92% would recommend to a friend

(23 total reviews)

Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov

92% approve of CEO

92% positive business outlook

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4.8

Culture & values

4.7

Diversity & inclusion

4.7

Work/Life balance

4.6

Career opportunities

4.5

Senior management

4.0

Compensation and benefits

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Waymo with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 23 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Waymo is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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23 reviews

5.0

Jun 7, 2019

Good place to work

Senior software engineer

Recommend

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Pros

Great place to work as an engineer, due to the likely large impact of self driving on the world, the many cutting edge problems that need to be solved, many awesome colleagues, great software engineering tools and infrastructure shared with Google, healthy collaborations with other research teams within Alphabet, leading to a fast pace of innovation, particularly in AI.

Cons

I'd say we're experiencing some growing pains as we try to scale everything up.

1.0

Feb 17, 2019

The exciting days have come and gone

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Waymo is doing this right and is definitely ahead of the pack. Fully driverless cars are very far away and many teams are making it to the 95% mark, but that last few percent is hard. We have a real big group of drivers and test systems and I do think waymo will be the first to get there, but not anytime soon.

Cons

3 things: 1 - there is a really long time horizon between the work you are doing today and its impact. Both that these cars aren't going to make a real impact for another 20+ years, but the company is also moving slower and being very cautious these days, so your code doesn't ship for months to years now. 2- the remaining challenges are relatively boring. All the cool sims, sensors, and pipelines are running solid. We're deep in the land of tinkering. 3 - the best team is long gone. Few OG Googlers still on the team combined with the above makes life here more and more boring by the day.

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