Lucid Software reviews

Bad fit for developers with career experience. Training is designed exclusively for fresh college grads, with almost no onboarding for experienced developers. This, in conjunction with unrealistic expectations for senior devs, is a near-guaranteed setup for failure. The company touts their performance review process, but it's just a sugar coating around whether your manager likes you. Employees who do well have no concept of work-life balance, work much, much more than 40 hours per week, and have a cult-like obsession with the company - this is the "culture" they're so proud of. And if you have any personal or health challenges, don't expect much empathy from HR or management.

Compensation, in order to understand this feedback it would be helpful to understand historical context: In the pre-COVID era, Lucid was an outstanding place to work. Even then Lucid's compensation model was below average for the Utah market, yet employees were willing to accept this for the exceptional office culture. With the rise of remote work, however, this model has become increasingly untenable. Despite the changing landscape, Lucid has not yet adapted to meet even Utah compensation, let alone the national averages. No, i'm not talking about competitive bay-area/big city compensations i'm talking actual averages. This issue has been recognized by the senior leadership, who view market and competitive compensation as 'simply not in line with Lucid's philosophy.' It was interesting to see that with the recent round of layoffs, all of my effected colleagues (excluding two junior people) have successfully secured new roles with higher base salaries than all of the IC’s on our our team at Lucid even higher bases than our managers.