A National Embarrassment - Autonomy Engineer Skydio Employee Review

2.0
11 Sept 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* Defense sales means stock is valuable * Work life balance is good

Cons

* Company is a national embarrassment; Ukraine chose to buy DJI instead of using Skydios they got for free * Management doesn’t prioritize making core autonomy work reliably, only interested in new features * Infrastructure and tooling extremely poor, extremely frustrating working environment * Very old and slow moving company resistant to change

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5.0
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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
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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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