Beta Technologies Reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(52 total reviews)

Kyle Clark

Not enough data to show CEO approval

68% positive business outlook

Beta Technologies has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 52 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there.

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52 reviews
1.0
28 June 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Interesting approach to communication, learning, innovation, and organizational effectiveness.

Cons

During the second interview with upper management, the interviewer spoke down to me a lot. I thought I don't want to work for them. Then two months later they made an offer? So then I said why not? I won't deal with that guy on a daily basis. Bad decision by me. About two weeks into working there the big boss would call me up and say I was incompetent and I did not know what I was doing. I've been an engineer for many decades now. The person I reported directly to was a cool person at first. Then would Zoom and say stuff such as "We aren't getting our money's worth from you." Or "You don't know what you are doing". Or scream loudly at me on a Zoom call with about a dozen people and then another 24 people (mostly external) to shut up. Very condescending, demeaning, and insulting. How to make a very experienced person feel irrelevant. Not a good way to manage a department. Maybe another department with different people would have been good? Maybe not? One very experienced person I worked with at another aerospace company was treated worse. I'll let him add his review. He was an expert in system engineering. I supported his department at the other bigger company. Must be great to have the luxury to talk down to experts in their field. I assume we are a dime a dozen? Too patronizing for me. And I almost quit a few times. Their loss, not mine.

3.0
7 Nov 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Interesting engineering Good perks; if you use them

Cons

Beta is a great place to hang out, but it's becoming less of a good place to work. The number of employees has multiplied and the structure of the organization has not kept pace. Some people are slammed, others have nothing to do. Some engineering team leads are just the loudest person in the room, not the most thoughtful. Overall, I think the lack of structure is severely hurting the business. Also, there are some perks (flying for example), that I personally would prefer to see disappear in favor of higher engineering salaries. The culture at Beta is very conformist, somewhat cult-like; it would great to see more intellectual diversity.

3.0
17 Sept 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Depending on your role you can have a lot of autonomy -Mostly transparent on business strategy. CEO occasionally pipes in during weekly standup to realign teams on objectives and outlooks. -Free lunch? It was fantastic when the company was smaller. It is pretty meh now that the company has 600+ employees. The kitchen just didn't scale with the company. -Free flight lessons. Though the more people join the company the harder it is to use this benefit. -Opportunity to work with a lot of smart people. -Hybrid schedule. Which is great because the office is open concept and tremendously distracting. Of course, everyone wears headphones. -This company is probably a winner long term. Great backing, thought leadership in core roles, and partnerships. -The founder hosts an annual party at his mansion.

Cons

-Company is going through growing pains. The CEO is trying to keep a startup culture, and maybe from the top it looks to be working, but it's no longer the case at the lower half of the totem poles. -YMMV depending on which team you work on. -Very little career advancement and no mentoring/guidance. Wherever you join, that's where you'll likely stay. Now that the company has grown, people are very territorial and frankly too busy for you. -Flat management doesn't mean there isn't a hierarchy. Flat management just obscures lines of influence. You will have a managers, they just have an out not to have to be effective and inspiring leaders because employees are supposed to manage themselves. The not-managers still get manager pay though. -Culture pushing on borderline cult. We hire for specific character types and interests, but this just leads to mono-thinking.

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