Brilliant colleagues but challenging work-life balance - Autonomy Engineer Skydio Employee Review

4.0
30 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great employees and some of the most brilliant, hardworking and humble engineers I have ever worked with. You can learn a lot and grow very fast in the company.

Cons

Work life balance isn’t great and people put in crazy hours and feels almost expected of you.

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5.0
1 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

smart people, interesting engineering problems, high real world impact now.

Cons

bad work life balance at times

4.0
6 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

In general if you're positioned well, there can be a lot of autonomy and freedom to work on what you want at Skydio. Interesting opportunity to explore new areas and quite flexible on the type of work you can do.

Cons

If you aren't positioned well you might get kind of stagnant career-wise. A few people make all the decisions and if you aren't aligned with them you might get stuck. Also if you are aligned well then your work life balance can get pretty bad. Also though it markets itself as a multi-use enterprise drone, the major use cases are police and defense so would be good to make sure you are aligned with the company.

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