Sea Machines Reviews

The lack of focus and direction from management is profoundly detrimental. As an engineer, it's disheartening to see a barrage of projects being added without any strategic planning or understanding of the engineering challenges involved. This scattergun approach results in a perpetual state of chaos and inefficiency. Furthermore, the core business model of retrofitting boats for autonomy, while innovative, is not viable in its current form. Each deployment is a time-consuming, resource-intensive ordeal, which raises serious questions about the scalability and long-term sustainability of the business.

- Over-hired. Excusable for a massive bureaucratic organization like Google, but it makes little sense that a 30 person team would aggressively over-hire and then lay people off months later. - Lack of humanity. I was given 2 weeks of severance pay, which is unusually low nowadays. - Poor product direction. Too many lines of products for a small startup, and customers don't like them. They were working on an autonomy product, a situational awareness product, AND a fleet management product while I was there. None of them were offered together.