Pros
Building a cool car? I guess? Free lunches
Cons
- Doesn't matter what time you arrive to start work in the morning, the expectation is to work till 5 30pm. They'll even purposely schedule 5:30pm company wide meetings on Thursday and Fridays that go till 6pm. Too bad if you wanted to try and have a life outside work hours. - Speaking of, overtime is a requirement every week. Who cares about Australian working laws right? Literally in the first week they said "we know your contract is 38 hours, but it's a minimum of 40 every week". Just so you guys know, that's illegal. - 100% on site which is very very far east. Unless you live around the corner it'll be a trek every single day into the office, and they're not flexible AT ALL regarding this. If you need to be at home for a rental inspection or house repairs or an important delivery or whatever it may be, they'll force you to take an annual leave day, even if you actually did work from home. No exceptions. Especially in a post pandemic world, if you have a slight cough, just work from home, Applied EV? They'll make you choose between using up all your sick leave or infecting the whole office. It's just the most idiotic management of a company. The CEO even admitted that all the software engineers could easily work from home but he doesn't think it's "fair". - 0 equity. Sat through a whole presentation from the CEO about how all the work we're doing is going to make him rich while we continue to work our butts off just for the knowledge you got to work on this car. He then gloated about getting to jet around the world to conferences and experience other companies technologies. For a start-up to not offer anything to those people actually doing the work is laughable. No bonuses either, no annual leave loading, just work overtime each week and travel an hour to and from work. So many other companies offer better packages as standard, this is a rip off. - Culture is terrible. Very cliquey, you'll find it hard to make friends. If you love living at your work place and commuting an hour each way every day and not being compensated for your input fairly than this is the company for you! Seriously though, there's so many better companies that you could be working for rather than here.
