Tons of Learning and Fantastic People - Anonymous employee Motivo Employee Review

technically challenging projects, great team, fast pace, variety of projects, great inhouse manufacturing capabilities

occasional marathons, dynamic workload, somethings challenging projects coupled with challenging client personas

One of the pillars the company is supposed to be built on is "working with cool people," and they live up to that. Motivo has some of the best employees to work with of any job I've had. Functional managers seem to genuinely care about their direct reports. The company also lets employees access shop resources for personal use during off time, and they're flexible with working from home. There are opportunities to learn a wide range of skills, but not to much depth.

The other three pillars of the company's philosophy as presented are "good compensation," "cool projects," and "time to live your life." They don't seem genuinely committed to these. Pay is below market for the area and profit sharing is low to negligible, so it doesn't come close to making up the difference. How interesting projects are is subjective, but making your interests and reservations known to management has seemingly no effect on assignments, so it's likely you'll end up working on something mundane compared to the exciting engineering you hear going on around you in southern California. Personally I have seen very few interesting projects at Motivo in my time regardless of my involvement in my them. You will not likely have the time to live your life that you are sold in onboarding. The 4x10 schedule is a worse deal than it sounds, since days easily bloat to 12 hours or the extra day off is lost to work. Aggressive timelines and poor project/personnel management mean weekend work and 50 hour weeks will be common, especially if you're being moved around on projects often. Management is trying to change this culture by increasing the expected workload and placing the responsibility to keep work distributed evenly on the engineering team. Lastly, there is a bizarre culture of CEO-worship among the overhead staff that can be uncomfortable.