A company that rewards and promotes some of the worst people you’ve met. - Anonymous employee Zoox Employee Review

1.0
1 Oct 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

As the review headline says, that could be a bonus!

Cons

People who are rude, abrasive, and difficult to work with reside at the top, and they hire similar folks with limited social skills and robot-like empathy-lacking behaviors. People will throw you under the bus to save themselves, and the culture breeds this kind of toxicity. I have never faced a more strange and concerning group of individuals. I’ve witnessed yelling in meetings, bosses openly mocking staff members' performance to their teams and meetings, and using it as a punch line, and borderline witch-hunt behavior from those they are not happy with. People would regularly go to me because my manager was known for her bad attitude, and people were frankly too afraid to communicate with her. And that was seen as a normal thing to do because those are the individuals in power. Someone in a similar position lasted just a few months after they were publicly screamed out by the organization leader, and (“allegedly”) rumors swirled that they were handed a separation by HR to keep quiet. It’s also clear that they are trying to clear house as the company moves on to its next steps. You’ll mysteriously see coworkers vanish (get fired) every month or so, which is concerning for a company of this size. I have never worked anywhere like this before, and hope to never again.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
31 Mar 2026
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Recommend
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Pros

The tech is cool and there are passionate workers making it happen

Cons

Negligent management, basically asking for burn out which seems to be on par with their parent company's model. Safety? Yeah, sure I guess. Dangling, exposed wires, unsanitary bathroom conditions, and being told "you don't have to be here" when bringing up genuine concerns. We're all adults here yet they seem motivated to treat you like children in a boarding school. I know 10+ individuals with years experience in the AV space who left less than a year into being onboarded. What a waste of resources. I was flown out for training, didn't get my flight ticket until a literal hour before departure after blowing up HR and local leadership (none of which responded or checked in after the fact). Borderline illegal, heck who am I kidding, straight up illegal OSHA violations at the depots. Scheduled less than 6 hours between shifts (hello??? Do we want an incident). Also, being a contractor is a joke. You never know where you stand, managers report you to the contractor before ever telling you anything. Straight nerve racking conditions. If it means anything, I have turned down two recruiters offering twice my current salary (ouch) because it meant I'd have to work for Zoox and their horrible management again.

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