Layoff Protected Employment - Stressful Customer Support - Engineering Lutron Electronics Employee Review

2.0
Aug 26, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Lutron has never laid off a full time employee. They can accomplish this by hiring many contracted employees from domestic and international contract companies, especially in engineering. This provides protection for full time employees because contracted employees are usually lost first when people are let go. This has not happened recently, luckily for everyone. The benefits are decent and income is average. You won't get rich working here, but you will have a solid average career. Typically employees who go back to school are the ones that advance through the ranks fastest. Lutron also offers tuition reimbursement. I believe $5250 per year or up to 4 courses per year, whichever comes first.

Cons

Stress, but I suppose this depends on what department you work in. Working in Engineering I had opportunity to be involved in many different parts of the company including software designs, customer facing situations, training courses, tradeshows, and travel to different parts of the country. Lutron's culture of using contractors to support engineering is a blessing and a curse. Blessing because we can hire and release contractors depending on needs, which protects full time employees from layoffs. A curse because full time employees are constantly retraining new contractors that rotate into the company for a few months to maybe a year. This is a complete waste of time. Customer support scenarios are great when you're on the receiving end of support, but what employees go through to "talk care of the customer" is painful. Lutron markets "the best" products which are no more immune to software defects that our competitors. Ours just cost more. Working in customer support, be prepared for a tough career. Tech support positions are nearly impossible to get out of which means you're likely spending years on the phones until you can back-filled and moved to something else. New employees go through great introductions to the company with different classes at "Lutron University", but after that new product training is non-existent leaving you out to dry unless you take time to learn yourself. Documentation is a joke. Specifications? Yeah right, but I know this is true elsewhere. Still doesn't mean it's right... No communication among teams. I concluded this is because how busy everyone is, they don't have time to think about it. What I've learned is that if you work hard take care of the the customer and the company, you'll eventually get assigned more and more tasks until you break. Which is essentially where I am at right now. No breaks at this company.

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Cons

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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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