Rivian reviews

Company is defined by chaos and constant change. Leadership is incapable of providing a coherent overall strategy and sticking to it. The result is many organizations working in silos with poor communication. Projects are constantly started, paused, cancelled, and/or restarted and contractors are whipped around. Rivian doesn't go far in building relationships and trust with external partners. High turnover with frequent hiring and firing cycles. Layoff cycles are brutal with little notice. It's a matter of wrong place, wrong time. Also, there's significant arrogance amongst the tech/startup bros and ex-Tsla crowd. If you don't come from one of those groups and don't already have an internal network, g'luck. Lots of not so senior employees in senior positions because because they got buddies already in the company.

Where do I begin. Incompetent middle/upper management and executive team. Poor long term incentives. Terrible culture within and between teams. No exemplification if touted culture by executives. Promises made be leadership team that are reversed quickly or before those promises were ever even attempted. Inefficiencies all over the place with no action from leadership to fix them. Amazing policies to claw back cash spend, like eliminating cups in the coffee rooms and keeping travel per diem below federal rates while continuing to blow crazy amounts on travel and expedite fees to meet timelines that are a joke. The list goes on… what was a once fun, promising, innovative place to work has become a prison.