Terrible Leadership - Losing Clients and Profits - Staff Engineer UL Solutions Employee Review

1.0
Jul 16, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good engineers who have a mindset to help people. Nice cafeteria food.

Cons

Junior management does not back up staff on decisions. Senior management has been destroying the company and the mission by promoting laziness, bad behavior, poor performance, and chasing clients away. Half of the executive staff including the president are not even there for most of the year. Where are they? They don't even come down from the 3rd floor to talk to people. Standards are written poorly and vaguely, thus the competitors end up taking advantages of any loopholes. PDEs take too long to act on critical decisions. Overpaid executives and managers grow the overhead to astronomical proportions. This makes it impossible to compete with other companies.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

WFH policy and great coworkers.

Cons

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