Nuro Reviews

- Autonomous driving is a really hard technical problem, one that even large companies like Google haven't figured out. On top of this and unlike most of the other companies in this space, Nuro is designing and manufacturing its own custom vehicles from scratch, which is incredibly expensive, risky, and time consuming. It all could all come out great in the end, but it will take a long time to find out. - Company is very secretive about key business metrics and timelines when talking to potential employees. This makes it hard to understand the risk/reward tradeoffs before signing. - Company has a high valuation due to a large Softbank investment. As a result, exercising stock options is expensive and carries a lot of downside risk. - Workspace in MTV has some issues- software engineers still don't have standing desks, parts of the office are consistently dirty or smelly, snacks are inconsistently stocked, etc. - SF office is small and doesn't have lunch. It's more of a once-or-twice of week stopover than a real office, and you'll still have to go down to MTV most days to get your work done.

The management team is nothing more than a clique of friends who weed out the employees they don't want to hang out with. The idea of contract employees may seem great, but when there is an issue no one cares because it's the contract companies problem, who is worthless at resolving anything.