Pros
Connecting with other employees from different departments and factory employees.
Kontras
The work culture at Rivian is declining at a very fast pace. Toxic work environment and poor management. Managers and team leads don’t know how to manage projects efficiently and effectively. They throw a bunch of projects at technicians and engineers to be completed, but can’t manage any projects to be completed in a time efficient manner. Requires us to come in at dawn but end up just standing around for hours doing nothing, cause certain parts or information aren’t available, yet after a 10 hour shift, the leads require us to do more over time because, all of a sudden, things have to be completed by the next morning. A complete waste of time just to do some extra over time, which things could’ve been completed during work hours, if planned properly. There is absolutely no growth opportunities and work life balance. Previously required us to be on call all weekend, which allowed people to not be able to make any plans, only to never get called to go into work. The managers and leads are incompetent and inexperienced, they don’t know how to lead and manage their own teams. There is absolutely no communication amongst team members or even with the high ups. It is transparent when they have favorites within the team. They will go lengths to protect these people from getting fired, even when there is probable cause they should have been fired, yet people that have worked hard and get things done are getting laid off left and right. Rivian states “We challenge each other to deliver more as a group than we can as individuals, because the greatest impact comes when working as one team.” Yet, fellow team members and leads/managers will throw others under the bus to save their own face. A fellow team member should be happy about the accomplishments their teammates makes for the team, yet they are filled with nothing but jealousy, and when that person makes a little mistake they would constantly blame it on them. They have no problem with bringing each other down. Working with a bunch of immature he said /she said people, throwing blame at another person for their own mistakes. Everything I have experienced while working at Rivian is the complete opposite of everything Rivian claims in it’s compass work values.