Decent place to start but certainly not the company to last you for career - Design & Development Engineer Lutron Electronics Employee Review

3.0
Sep 7, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Opportunities to expand your role beyond the assigned responsibilities. - Company is still not very big so easy to expand networks and get noticed. - Leadership opportunities earlier in the career. - Come on time and leave on time for most of the time - Every team member is given a equal chance to voice their concerns. - Design and development cycle is very fast. From the project approval to market launch, often the time period is 6 months. This keeps the employees on their toes and work creatively and smartly. - Good opportunities for training - People manage their own schedule.

Cons

- HR is hard to work with, often very inflexible and adheres to their strict rules. - HR tries it's best to enforce company culture and often shoots down ideas for change. - No work at home or remote work policy. - Senior management often micromanages. - Transition of roles is not as easy as touted by HR at time of hiring. - No free lunches, food or any side benefits of a medium size company.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

— Legitimate portfolio work: the role involved a full website overhaul and product PDP writing, which has real value on a CV — The company name carries weight and looks good on paper

Cons

Pay was consistently late — sometimes by three weeks. No explanation, no heads up, no acknowledgment of the stress this creates for contractors who don't have the luxury of waiting indefinitely for money they've already earned. On the day-to-day side: we were required to produce detailed logs of everything we did — long, tedious activity lists that served no clear purpose and ate into actual work time. The broader culture was captured perfectly in a phrase that came up regularly in stakeholder meetings: "I won't fall on my sword" or "I won't die on that hill" — or some variation of it. Upper management had a consistent habit of deflecting accountability downward onto contract workers, who had the least power and the least protection. When things went wrong, contractors were the convenient explanation. When things went right, that credit traveled elsewhere. If you're considering a contract role here, get your payment schedule in writing and ask very specific questions about how your manager operates. What's described as a flexible, collaborative environment may look quite different once you're in it.

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