What are perks and other benefits like at Wisk?

Great benefits, above average pay, a lot of unique and challenging designs, some cool tests to run, free lunch, 9/80 schedule and plenty of learning opportunities.

This company was once an exceptional place to work; however, the pace and workload have increased dramatically, resulting in significant changes to the work environment. While unlimited PTO is offered, the current workload renders it impossible to take advantage of this benefit depending on which department you work in. Work-life balance has deteriorated substantially. Compounding the issue, the company is eliminating the 9/80 schedule due to falling behind on deliverables which was met with boos across the company all-hands. Leadership has established aggressive goals that are widely recognized by the engineering team as unattainable. The company's goals have already been revised twice and are now on the verge of being adjusted for a third time. With each revision, leadership continues to demand increased effort and longer hours without addressing the underlying issues or acknowledging the unrealistic nature of these expectations. The company's ambitious outlook stem from leadership's lack of experience and understanding of proper design cycles and production cycles. While this inexperience was previously obscured by a slower operational pace, the recent increase in work pace and workload has exposed their shortcomings. These flawed assumptions are reflected in the company's unrealistic timelines and goals. The engineering team has repeatedly escalated concerns about these issues, but it appears that someone in leadership is filtering this feedback before it reaches the CEO. Alternatively, it is possible that someone in leadership made unrealistic commitments to secure continued funding from Boeing. In addition to these systemic challenges, there is a specific director who has received numerous complaints from managers and other directors and has been the subject of multiple HR reports. Despite these issues and a lack of positive contributions, this individual remains in a leadership position without facing any repercussions. If this message reaches the CEO, it is strongly recommended that this matter be investigated further. Beyond organizational issues, cultural challenges also persist. One department, in particular, consistently avoids accountability. This department has repeatedly failed to meet expectations but manages to deflect attention by shifting blame onto others. Accountability and responsibility remain significant deficiencies within the company, extending from the departmental level to leadership level. In summary, while the company maintains ambitious goals, a lack of experienced leadership, unrealistic expectations, and accountability issues threaten its long-term success. Addressing these concerns is critical to restoring balance, improving morale, and ensuring sustainable growth.

Work environment is healthy and positive, colleagues are great, high standard of excellence, and benefits are fantastic.

Program planning has a tendency to hinder proper development.

Benefits are nice, working on cool technology and the individual contributors are top-notch!

Leadership is a mess. It's a bunch of career-ladder climbers who are defensive of their fiefdoms and power, don't want to collaborate with other teams, and don't have appropriate backgrounds/experience to run the company. This company is riddled with defensiveness, functional land-grabs, and unnecessary politics about ownership and RAAs. There is no communication between upper management and the other tiers of employees (but constant communication in the other direction is expected, past the point of micromanagement).

The catered daily lunches and the benefits are good.

The management is not very supportive. It is a toxic environment.

You’re working on new autonomous passenger vehicle technology, but you’re trading sanity for the opportunity to work on it. One of few aerospace companies offering remote work, but leadership is pushing to RTO slowly but surely. Intelligent and interesting people. Most of them are a pleasure to work with. Some bad apples like everywhere else.

Extremely poor leadership. Duplication of work, little to no communication, no accountability, and lack of coordination among teams. Everywhere you look there is in-fighting and in some places mismatch of leadership for what they’re leading. Most managers are just trying to survive with their own workload. There is an atmosphere of every person for themselves going around. Eroding benefits and catfish-like tactics with new hires. If you were hired last year (‘24) and promised a 9/80 work schedule. That’s now gone. Higher ups kept one off-Friday per month and said working the remainder was for “better collaboration”. The reality is that the schedule change is nothing more than forced overtime. The CEO was kind enough to remind us that we’re all “exempt employees” when challenged about it in an all-hands. Leadership forcing additional hours plays right into their needs because the organization is severely and laughably understaffed. It’s been going on for years without any end in sight. Good luck taking your “unlimited” PTO, which is a joke. Company is missing major goals and management’s response is to crack the whip harder and demand more out of those of us that remain. Deadlines keep getting moved to the left and last minute big goals popping up. All of which is a clear sign of Boeing pushing unrealistic demands or Wisk leadership making promises it can’t keep. Don’t have to look far to see people burned out. If you’re good at what you do, expect to be rewarded with burnout and an absurd amount of work. Given the amount of work required of each individual, the pay is mediocre. Go look at a job requisition on the careers site and it’s not hard to tell that they’re trying to hire 3 jobs in 1. The CEO is little more than a Boeing puppet/plant. Boeing offers “help” in the form of slowing us down with garbage software/tool/processes and their lack of competence about pretty much everything. To be fair, there are several really great Boeing engineers working with us. At macro level, Boeing had its strike and then moved to lay off 10%. Being a subsidiary people wanted to know if Wisk would be effected. The CEO said headcount would be relatively flat and our funding was in good shape for 2025 funding-wise. Intentionally giving the impression we were solid, but then the company turned around and laid about 6% of staff off right before Christmas ‘24. The company opted to be scummy about the layoff instead of being straight with everyone too. Place feels like you have a job year-to-year at best.

Great benefits and work life balance.

Unclear visibility on what executive leadership is prioritizing for the company.

-Good benefits -every other Friday off. (Sometimes)

-Management does not like a straightforward approach. -they also don’t take in consideration any feedback to improve the company -A lot of the people are remote workers and make it hard to communicate within different teams. Also, when they do eventually show up onsite there is a big disconnect. -Boeing culture is now taking over. -Budget constraints -It is becoming difficult to transition your career within the company to grow your career. -Not given the right tools to succeed. -Long hours.

Benefits, co-workers, 401K, remote option

Stay away from this company. Boeing's decisions heavily influence the management. Layoffs are being conducted cruelly, and high-performing employees are being scapegoats and asked to leave without notice.

Cool product and generally good benefits.

Promotions seem to be based off of who you know more than anything else. Did layoffs right before Christmas after promising they weren’t doing layoffs. Didn’t consult with bottom two layers of management before choosing who to cut. Most other companies in this space currently offer equity.

Great benefits. Flexible PTO. Every other Friday off. Remote work. Amazing bonuses.

Can be a little disorganized sometimes.