Nikola Motor Company

Let’s face it you are working on future products. Lots of potential. Before when the former ceo was around it was radically different. So many false promises (not to employees) but to shareholders engineers were left wondering how they could complete tasks for so many products that just weren’t conceivable in the time allotted such as….a fully operation production ready and truck durable hydrogen semi. A refuse hauler garbage truck, a pickup truck, a wave runner electric. None of these things are unrealistic but the timeframe to produce them was. Most of what was displayed was either full scale non operational models or design renderings utilizing a plethora of off the shelf components from partners. Unfortunately that means there is no secret sauce at this firm. In other words the DTNA Paccara VTNA forms of the world can also play this same “off the shelf” design game. And that is ok! Firms like Bosch supply the industry (not just Nikola). It’s a firm to work with good people. Enjoy!

Nikola will vary vastly based on who your director/department lead is. I got stuck with a bad one, ours says yes to everything. We have no work life balance and are expected to travel 50% of the time at 2week to month long stints. Our middle management has ZERO previous management experience, they harass micromanage and abuse the low level employees and are TOXIC. The do nothing but sit being computers all day, facing you and watch you work, critiquing everything they see, you literally have to tell them when you use the restroom. Middle management technicians, not engineers or safety "make up" tests to allow employees to advance to the "next level". Everything from driving, HV work, flashing is done with an arbitrary "test" that is done in the name of "safety" but is actually there to promote cliques. As a result our department has extremely high turnover and very sad and broken employees, they can only keep people employed by outsourcing new technicians thru staffing agencies.