Empty promises came to no fruition - Engineering NIO Employee Review

1.0
9 Dec 2019
Recommend
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Pros

No longer many -- unless you are in desperation of working on EVs

Cons

The company seems pretty lost going in circles aimlessly changing directions on almost a daily basis. US location has lost nearly all mid- to senior management and large number of personnel along with it in less than a year. Mothership is applying increasing amounts of pressure to solve all the damage over last 4 years at once but without providing any clear direction. Problems of past, present and future projects are all attempted to be figured out all at once in random order. Perpetual start-up style mode means a free-for-all: lack of clear requirements, duplicated efforts by multiple teams, architectural holes, decisions are made by wrong teams, those that don't have expertise, or no decisions made at all. Unclear constraints lead to projects worked on by entire teams for many months then completely thrown away. Then those team can be deemed ineffective or redundant and get cut. Efforts to make forward progress made by any team is usually thwarted by someone key leaving and/or task being moved to China. Further, despite this being a public company, financial situation is kept opaque to employees.

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5.0
1 May 2025
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Pros

When i started at NIO 3yrs ago, My first few months i wanted to leave! only because i was not use to reporting to an individual that i had more experience and knowledge than for my position, Shortly after this person was let go, i was able to run my department the way it should be ran. Other than that, NIO is a great place, with great minds. NIO is a great place to work! Our cars are fabulous!!

Cons

Just like everywhere else, you have your ups and downs.

4.0
16 Mar 2026
Anonymous intern
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Pros

Supportive team and a good chance to learn about the industry and daily workflow.

Cons

Some tasks were repetitive, and the internship period was relatively short.

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