Company details

HEADCOUNT

25-99

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Transportation & Infrastructure

WEBSITE

http://www.otiv.ai/

About the company

OTIV builds assisted driving, remote control, and autonomous technology for rail operations, with a focus on safety and operational efficiency. Public materials position OTIV around ADAS for rail, supervision and control centers, and longer-term “self-driving” capability for locomotives and shunting environments. OTIV works with large rail and industrial players listed on the company profile, and hiring is centered on product and customer deployment in Belgium. The company was founded in 2020.

Locations and presence

OTIV is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium. The company also lists an office presence in Cologne, Germany, alongside the Ghent address.

Palpable Score

50.0

/ 100

OTIV offers real entry points via internships and a few junior-leaning roles, so graduates can find a way in if timing lines up with open vacancies. The score drops on hiring fairness and outcomes because public interview and review feedback includes both solid structure and serious red flags, plus limited published progression data.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

12.0

/ 20

The company publicly lists multiple internships, including “Internship Product and R&D” and “Internship Sales & Business Development,” which are direct student-to-industry on-ramps.
OTIV also advertises roles like Administrative Specialist (part-time) that can suit early-career candidates looking for a first operations role inside a tech startup.
The company’s overall vacancy mix still leans experienced (for example, Robotics Software Engineer and other product roles), so early-career access is present but not the default hiring pattern.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

10.0

/ 20

The company routes applications through a consistent ATS (Workable), which is a baseline fairness signal versus ad hoc inbox hiring.
OTIV’s publicly shared interview experience for a Machine Learning Engineer Intern includes a co-founder chat, a take-home assignment (with a week window), and a technical interview, which sets some expectation on evaluation steps.
The company has public employee feedback describing inappropriate interview questioning and poor management behavior, which is a major hiring fairness and safety concern for early-career applicants.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

12.0

/ 20

The company has at least one intern review saying interns are treated as legitimate employees and given real responsibility from early on.
OTIV’s technical role descriptions emphasize collaboration on real-time, safety-relevant software (sensor fusion, collision avoidance, calibration), which can create strong hands-on learning if coaching is present.
The company also has public feedback describing limited guidance and unstructured management, which makes learning support look inconsistent across teams or time periods.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

8.0

/ 20

The company’s public job ads do not consistently show salary ranges, making it hard for early-career candidates to compare offers without going deep into the process.
OTIV has a low compensation-and-benefits rating on a major employer review platform, which is a negative pay fairness signal even if the sample size is small.
The company does advertise standard stable formats for many roles (full-time employment, named locations), but the lack of pay transparency keeps this pillar capped.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

8.0

/ 20

The company has mixed employee outcomes signals in public reviews, including comments about job insecurity and weak feedback loops alongside at least one positive internship experience.
OTIV’s LinkedIn footprint shows a small but growing team and recent junior hiring updates, which is a positive sign for early-career entry and continuation.
The company does not publish early-career outcome proof like intern-to-full-time conversion rates, time-to-promotion, or representative junior career paths, so progression and retention remain hard to validate.

Useful links & resources

OTIV Job Openings (Workable)Internship Product and R&D (posting)OTIV on LinkedIn (company page)