Company is in a cultural death spiral - Recensione dipendente - Software Engineer presso Zoox

I do not recommend interviewing here. The company is making slow and steady progress toward commercial service, but it's becoming a terrible place to work. In the few years I've worked here we've gone from "managers, your employees are really hard to replace, let's plan effectively and execute at a sustainable pace" to "employees, please don't burn yourselves out" to a new program called "weekend push" where anyone might be required to work seven days a week with little or no notice. My entire department is working 60-80hrs/wk. Close to zero equity growth. Below market compensation. Benefits are decreasing each year. No internal training or professional growth. New hires are down-leveled and long-term employees are universally under-leveled. The only way to get promoted is to throw a fit and threaten to leave at a critical time. If you're coming from outside the bay area then this might be a step up in compensation, but the best people quickly jump ship to somewhere else. This company is a career dead end.