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

Software Engineer professionals working at Waymo have rated their employer with 4.2 out of 5 stars in 52 Glassdoor reviews. This is a higher than average score with the overall rating of Waymo employees being 4.0 out of 5 stars. Search open Software Engineer Jobs at Waymo now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Software Engineer interview questions at Waymo .

Does Waymo pay Software Engineer employees well?

Software Engineer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Waymo with 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 52 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 2.5% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Software Engineer salaries at Waymo.

How happy are Software Engineer professionals working at Waymo?

72% of Software Engineer employees at Waymo would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has increased by 38% in the past 12 months. Software Engineer professionals have also rated Waymo with a 3.6 rating for work-life-balance, 4.2 rating for diversity and inclusion, 4.3 rating for culture and values and 3.9 rating for career opportunities.

What Waymo locations are top rated by Software Engineer employees?

Mountain View is the top rated Waymo location by Software Engineer employees.

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 41 reviews)); "Great benefits as an Alphabet company." ((in 35 reviews)); "The pay is good." ((in 28 reviews)); "Great teams and people are very friendly" ((in 20 reviews)); "Brilliant coworkers" ((in 13 reviews))

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

"Bad work life balance." ((in 12 reviews)); "Poor upper management." ((in 6 reviews)); "Disorganized leadership and ambiguous instructions." ((in 6 reviews)); "No growth opportunities for contractors" ((in 4 reviews)); "startup environment with all of the growing pains, even a decade + later multiple rounds of layoffs that go unannounced" ((in 4 reviews))

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4.2

72% would recommend to a friend

(52 total reviews)

Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov

84% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

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4.3

Culture & values

4.2

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Senior management

4.1

Compensation and benefits

3.9

Career opportunities

3.6

Work/Life balance

Software Engineer employees have rated Waymo with 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 52 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Waymo is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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52 reviews

4.0

Jan 3, 2024

Good place to learn things, but not a good place to make money

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

You got lots of learning experience.

Cons

Not a good place to make money, WLB is pretty bad.

5.0

Dec 4, 2023

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Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

good culture, good pay, moving fast

Cons

poor work life balance, small company

1.0

Nov 23, 2023

Toxic culture

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

access to partial google perks. I cannot think of anything else

Cons

Compensation: the stocks are worthless so you only have base salary. The company's goal is not making revenue. It blows off every possibility of profitable business - L2&L3 and trucking due to poor business decisions. It is working on L4 robotaxi only to satisfy someone's ego. Work life balance: the company implicitly expects you to work 100+ h per week. You need to work on short term projects all over the year with deadlines every 1-2 month. You will barely have chance to sleep 1 week before each deadline. Culture: toxic. The company wants you to feel insecure so you work harder. And it's famous for really bad people managers.

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