I moved here for this?! - Manufacturing Engineer Rivian Employee Review

2.0
Dec 8, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay, benefits are good, it's a very inclusive environment, clean, the food is decent. Cute town, albeit small and a bit behind the times.

Cons

Massive workload, unrealistic timelines, excessive pressure to produce without proving out the process. Flawed product design. Indirect threat of unemployment. No plan for production fallout. Poor resource management(this one is a pet peeve, a lot of people got used to WFH recently but a manufacturing environment requires hands on engagement and oversight. Zoom meetings don't build things, engineers and technicians with boots on the ground and tools in their hands do). This feel like just another business built to extract every last bit of value from the workforce with very little regard for the human cost. Depression and anxiety are rampant here, sure a degree of stress is healthy and problems will always keep coming up, but forcing people to give up their lives outside of work and to ignore their health, both mental and physical is exactly the type of environment that destroys lives in pursuit of adventure? "greatness?". A cooler truck? Not sustainable, not adventurous.

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