Great benefits, bad work-life balance - Analyst Waymo Employee Review

3.0
Jan 27, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits as an Alphabet company. But not as many company-wide days off as Google in the pandemic. Smart and humble coworkers to work with Interesting work

Cons

Bad work life balance. So many people I know work long hours, not sure which teams really have good work-life balance as written in other reviews. It’s hard to get promotion (probably even harder than Google), and no clear career growth path in some teams. Managers are hit or miss, probably the influence from the Google culture of promoting good IC’s, who are not necessarily good people managers. Start up, so almost no equity liquidity, translating into overall low cash flow in the expensive Bay Area. But of course, for people who can wait longer time, you might be paid off.

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5.0
May 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

This place is technical strong, and AV is on a good track than few years ago.

Cons

Some politics among the org. Top talent is attracted by LLM, and company have to pay higher salary to attract more people come in

4.0
Jun 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good team culture and lots of room for advancement.

Cons

A lot of temp and contract work can be unstable.

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