Poor management, poor benefits, and terrible morale - Software Operator Transdev Employee Review

2.0
Jul 8, 2022
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Pros

Our company is contracted by a subsidiary of a FAANG company from Silicon Valley. Work in the research and development of autonomy the pro being you are making roads safer tomorrow with your work today. Some free snacks.

Cons

Poor management, poor benefits, poor work life balance (12 hour shifts), unlike companies such as Aurora or TuSimple (normally M-F) shifts run 24/7 for no good reason. Can only see your kids on the weekend? Too bad, here's a overnight shift that runs through the weekend. Pay is also the worst in the industry coming in at a massive $9 an hour less than competitors starting pay. Management is completely disconnected or uncaring about the employees here (both drivers and operators are treated like children). Bad apples are rarely fired and the good employees are hardly given proper appreciation.

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5.0
May 29, 2026
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Pros

Honestly the pay was good

Cons

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3.0
Apr 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is decent, plenty of opportunity for over time. Management is decent most of the time. Opportunities for advancement and to work at other sights when work is down

Cons

University holidays, breaks, and summer semester create a lot of financial hardships because those days are unpaid. After a year you get a week of PTO. No sick leave. They have a very strict point system. If you call out or leave early you lose points. 2 points per call out. They do not accept doctors notes. If you miss 5 days you're out of a job. The union helps but they have been more focused on pay increases when their is so much wrong. You are not only monitored by AI on the bus along with cameras but also have supervisors onsight that heavily enforce protocol in a way that makes the job highly stressful. You get pulled to the carpet over the most minor stuff. All of this has been from my perspective as driver. Their are better places out there in the industry but for this area you feel the safest here. If you can stomach all of this then try to advance as soon as you can. It gets much more flexible once you are in the office or become a supervisor.

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