Avantages
The cool aid is great, the language used to feed you the cool aid is exceptional. But if you don’t fall in line or actually start utilizing the experience you were hired for things change quickly for the worse. If you challenge the status quo you are sidelined. If you have tolerance for sub par leadership come work here.
Inconvénients
- The politics is like watching a mafia story. - The forward planning is limited to non, understanding of KPIs is negligible. - The use of data for decision making doesn’t exist. - No idea what the company goals are and roadmaps to achieve them are non existent. - Leadership is group of rejects from other high profile companies where they had limited scope/ responsibilities. Manager or Program manager with 1- years of experience jumps to Director /St Director at Rivian as long as they know the right people. - Sustainability is just a buzz word and the amount of waste generated is the same as anywhere else. - Basic principles and processes are non existent and the need to establish them not a priority. For the most part leaders don’t understand basic job function other than go hire like there is a unlimited need for redundancies. Rivian is portrayed as the company with environment in mind, the love for family and the goal of positive cultural change. Surprise surprise this place is like the rest of corporate America with politics, clicks and wolf packs. Undying loyalty to subpar leadership is more important than experience and ideas.