Was a great place to work - Anonymous employee Viam Employee Review

2.0
Aug 13, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- The people that you work with. Some of the smartest and kindest collogues I've ever had. - Great benefits

Cons

- Lot of first time managers who don't know how to manage people and makes the work environment terrible. - Favoritism is an issue here. - Serious lack of technical debate, Arguments are not heard/considered in technical decision making. - Too much bureaucracy for a startup.

Explore other reviews about Viam

5.0
Feb 17, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The mission is real, and the work actually maps to it -- you can feel the urgency and purpose behind what the company is building. High learning curve in a good way: you’re constantly exposed to new domains (hardware + software + real-world deployments), which keeps things interesting regardless of team or department.

Cons

It’s a fast-moving environment, so priorities can shift as the company learns. The pace is intense at times, and you have to be comfortable with ambiguity and imperfect information.

1.0
Mar 7, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's easy to park there.

Cons

Not as advertised they don't offer the free lunch instead what you get is expensive vending machines. You supposedly get paid alot of overtime but they clip your hours on Tuesday and pay you on Friday. You work 12 hour shifts with no training and some lady in a grey shirt yells at you to move to a new station but tells you NOT to log into that station which is important if they want to terminate you without cause. Some VIAM corporate guys just sort of walk around insulting random temp workers and the entire time you are breathing in powdered rubber. Also the machines are always broken but they never tag them out just sort of make the associates climb inside the machine and hit it with a hammer. The way they scam you here you will make the same money for less than half the effort bagging groceries it's not worth the hassle. DO NOT trust or respond to VIAMs Randstad recruitment texts they hired and fired our entire Crew in 2 weeks after production goals were met. Seriously F these people.

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All