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Bad middle management, top management in oblivion - Anonymous employee Rigetti Computing Employee Review

3.0
May 30, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great technically challenging work and interesting problems to solve on a daily basis. Working on moonshot impactful problems. Coworkers are brilliant and humble, lots of opportunities to learn from them.

Cons

Despite all the great things about working here, the erratic, chaotic and pompous middle management makes it hard to be happy. Culture of feedback and dialogue is lacking, decisions are made in a very hierarchical way and you are only informed of them. Aggressive deadlines maybe common in startups but here people literally whip up deadlines mid conversation. Lack of humility from management. While people in some parts of the company have growth opportunities, a majority of technical roles are dead end in terms of growth prospects.

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5.0
May 12, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Rigetti is great place to grow in a number of dimensions as a software engineer. You will be surrounded by talented mathematics and scientists. Their discipline is infectious and you will likewise be treated with respect if you bring a strong software skill set to bear on the company mission. This is not a place to come work if you want to be the star of the show or catch a rocket to the moon (quantum computing is a long term technology). But if you like to grow technically in a number of dimensions, this is a good place.

Cons

The company is not new and the industry is still in an R&D phase. Technical challenges lie ahead before financial sustainability.

1.0
Jun 14, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nothing comes to mind - place was awful - left the minute the opportunity presented itself

Cons

Everything here was awful - tons of cons - too many to list completely Management was highly political, unfocused, unprepared Monitoring was non-existent Teams competed against each other instead of working together Non-trivial was the catch phrase for not doing the right thing ("collaboration" here was a joke)

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