2 Year personal feeling at Waymo - Senior Software Engineer Waymo Employee Review

4.0
4 June 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great people around you. The overall engineering quality is very good in Waymo. Sharp to understand each other, and good communication to collaborate. - Large amount of projects to choose. Self-driving has large amount of long tail problems to solve, and usually no general solution, could be challenge for any of them. - Solid infrastructure tools to use.

Cons

- Scope maybe limited, large effort may be required to resolve a small set of problem. - Occasionally urgent requirements comes in, distracted between large amount of projects.

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5.0
13 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This place is technical strong, and AV is on a good track than few years ago.

Cons

Some politics among the org. Top talent is attracted by LLM, and company have to pay higher salary to attract more people come in

4.0
8 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good team culture and lots of room for advancement.

Cons

A lot of temp and contract work can be unstable.

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