After two years of crunch, I was laid off when my wife got pregnant. No rsu, no negotiation on severance, thanks for the fish. It is not the same there as it is everywhere else, the crunch hurt the most. Also their claimed culture is dramatically different than reality.
They are practically...
While negative reviews in general will be posted more, it's important to remember severance and their nda are aggressive enough to scare people from saying anything too. The layoff ax is hanging over everyone's head now, ask your rivian employee friends about their mental health.
I refused to...
Rivian needs to stop having layoffs every 6 months to improve moral. Employees lose unvested options when they're laid off too.
Imagine startup crunch for 2 years only to have your position arbitrary eliminated and your unvested options evaporated. The ones that survive get even more work.
Hop...
Now consider the impact to the BPA. If rivian was under no obligation to deliver a vehicle, is it an illusory promise? Sounds like a good reason to render the BPA as unenforceable as far as a binding agreement, or that rivian bait and switched under the BPA. Considering their tonneau, I'm not...
If you're at rivian reading this, just know you're not alone and many people feel the same way.
Automotive unions are corrupt but also protect the workers from say, the failure to staff a true 3rd shift (so you work 10-11 hours a day under a ton of physical+mental stress to meet production...