Bear Robotics Reviews

2.7

39% would recommend to a friend

(77 total reviews)

32% positive business outlook

Bear Robotics has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 77 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there.

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77 reviews
1.0
24 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* Free lunch and snacks?

Cons

* They ran a round of layoffs 3 weeks before announcing new funding round with LG! What a horrible company, stay away from them at all costs. * I worked there for a year and there were 3 (!) rounds of layoffs in different departments. Overall, they prefer to hire in Korea due to much smaller cost of engineer comparing to bay area and engineering is being moved there. Most of the customers and clients are in Asia as well, they don't have much business in the US. * Company is obsessed on saving costs and even a small expense has to go through managerial and cto/ceo approval. * No direction. No collaboration between teams and engineering offices in bay area, korea, singapore. Every team works in a silo and doesn't know what other team is doing. There are no line managers... * Toxic culture. Public shaming. Rude coworkers. * They call themselves a startup, but they move slower than a large corporation. Every decision has to be approved by leadership. * Very poor quality of software. Mostly written by interns as a prototype, not as production level software.

1.0
19 Dec 2023

Avoid this company, no future

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

none, should avoid this company

Cons

bad company to join, pm director and finance head left. lots of lying and culture going downhill. company has incompetent C level and management. no product roadmap and properly budget management so money needs to be raised. unfair review cycle and company heavily favors koreans. many people are leaving and the company has poor outlook

1.0
9 Feb 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Cool products and great other engineers to work with.

Cons

Management has no clue what they are doing. After assuring everyone for weeks that company was doing fine financially, they laid off the entire US MechE department by telling them "Move to Korea or take your severance." The C-level managers can't be trusted and have zero integrity despite what they claim about the company's goals and founding objectives. The manufacturing team in South Korea currently uses a single spreadsheet for BOM and revision tracking of their robots. Any time it was recommended that we put resources on fixing this issue management kept putting it off and kicking the problem further down the road.

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