Total gong show - If you're thinking about joining, run away... if youre in the boat, get out while you can. - Engineer Canoo Employee Review

1.0
May 10, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nostalgic memories of when the company was good. Still quite many good people. If we ever get this car to market it will be cool

Cons

This place fell apart real fast. We had a good thing going. We probably all expected some tweeks with the new management but what a disaster. Just read or listen to the most recent earnings report to understand what kind of an ego the guy running this place has. Tony Aquila is an uneducated crook who drags around the same bunch of loony tunes from place to place because they're the only ones who are dumb enough to agree to whatever he says. Every good thing that existed is questioned unless it comes from the new overlords. There seems to be no point to anything we're doing. Upper management and board has all been replaced by yes-men (zero women in company leadership, only on the board presumably because of CA law). The praise they have for Tony is so transparent. These guys have never get real jobs at a real tech company so they had to come screw up our company Culture is moving openly sexist. Every day something new to investigate because nobody is willing or able to make good decisions. Product launch is already gonna be delayed. Constant disruption--maybe we're moving to Dallas where there is zero automotive workforce. Many good people pushed out the door. The rest of us all looking.... New hires don't stay long. Especially in HR--we lost 3 HR managers in a few month.

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Cons

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