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Rigetti Computing

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Engaging work, brilliant people, volatile CEO/Founder - Anonymous employee Rigetti Computing Employee Review

3.0
11 May 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

It is wonderful to be working on such a meaningful project side by side with a world-class group of scientists and engineers, most of whom are kind and warm people as well. We are making meaningful progress toward our goal of bringing quantum computing to the world at scale.

Cons

While the CEO is certainly smart and driven, he is prone to extremely angry and unprofessional outbursts and no one is safe from them. Yelling, table-pounding, cursing, accusations, etc...all directed at whichever employee is the object of his rage at that particular moment. Employees seem to just cower in fear, most not wanting to incur his wrath. Employees talk about this a lot in private moments and it seems to be happening to nearly everyone at all levels and in all types of roles. There has also been a recent round of terminations of without much explanation, other than the typical corporate vagaries, and the rumors are running rampant. The firings seem to have focused mainly on employees at the higher end of the age spectrum.

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5.0
12 May 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Rigetti is great place to grow in a number of dimensions as a software engineer. You will be surrounded by talented mathematics and scientists. Their discipline is infectious and you will likewise be treated with respect if you bring a strong software skill set to bear on the company mission. This is not a place to come work if you want to be the star of the show or catch a rocket to the moon (quantum computing is a long term technology). But if you like to grow technically in a number of dimensions, this is a good place.

Cons

The company is not new and the industry is still in an R&D phase. Technical challenges lie ahead before financial sustainability.

1.0
14 Jun 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nothing comes to mind - place was awful - left the minute the opportunity presented itself

Cons

Everything here was awful - tons of cons - too many to list completely Management was highly political, unfocused, unprepared Monitoring was non-existent Teams competed against each other instead of working together Non-trivial was the catch phrase for not doing the right thing ("collaboration" here was a joke)

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