Great Culture and Opportunity for Impact - Sr. Director, Engineering Baton Employee Review

As a tech lab within a larger company, Baton has all of ownership and flexibility of a startup with none of the existential financial stress. Engineers within Baton are given ownership over projects that provide visible benefits for users across an established Fortune 500 company. This means career growth is basically built in. You will own projects that will scale and eventually replace core systems within the parent company. Since funding is guaranteed, there’s less risk of thrash and abrupt shifts in priority. As it grows, Baton has established a solid culture of collaboration and goodwill. While work gets busy, everyone is dedicated to the mission, and is willing to help out with technical challenges or product questions. Project roadmaps can be planned far ahead of time, so managers are able to assign engineers projects that support their individual career goals. In day to day work, there are many opportunities to pick up new skills through cross functional collaboration. This includes one-off projects, or longer rotations onto other technical teams.

Nothing glaring. There are some growing pains as Baton becomes larger and takes on a wider scope within Ryder. There have been times when information is siloed within teams. It does seem like leadership is aware of this problem and is working on ways to resolve it.

Best job I've had in my career so far, by far. A few things that stand out: * Wonderful colleagues and a great culture, * Challenging and high-impact problems to work on, * Engineering- and product-driven culture and leadership, * Great location in San Francisco's Hayes Valley, * Beautiful loft-like office with great lunch and snacks, * 3 days work from office + 2 days work from home, some fully remote weeks every year.

None that I can think of!