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Luminar reviews

3.3

31% would recommend to a friend

(131 total reviews)
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Austin Russell

40% approve of CEO

14% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.6

Compensation and benefits

3.4

Diversity & inclusion

3.1

Work/Life balance

3.1

Career opportunities

2.9

Culture & values

2.0

Senior management

Luminar has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 131 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Luminar employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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Reviews by job title

131 reviews
5.0
Jan 31, 2018

Opportunity to transform the transportation industry with breakthrough AV technology

Anonymous employee
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Business Outlook

Pros

Best-in-class technology: Technology is orders of magnitude better than competitors. Luminar's LiDAR hits all the wish list items for the automotive industry Exciting time for automotive technology: Great interest from all the major players. Automotive industry is jumping head first into autonomous technology and many players are banking their efforts off our LiDAR. Experienced team: Very deep industry expertise with LiDAR. Luminar is hyper focused on continuing building out the team with A+ talent from a variety of industries Continued growth: This is only the start for Luminar. Rapidly building out the team to support customers and continue marketplace dominance

Cons

LiDAR industry is "smoke and mirrors" -- Always have to call out bogus statements from competitors Heavy workload and tight timelines, but at least I feel like I'm working towards something that really matters

1.0
Jan 5, 2018

Do Not Recommend

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free food. Some smart people. High tech. Interesting problems in the space.

Cons

The company culture feels very secretive and uncollaborative. Speaking to other departments except via official channels is frowned upon. Poor opportunity for career advancement internally. Quite a few high performers have gotten upset about not having opportunity for promotion. In case you do join, get your position clarified first and make sure you're happy with it! Some rude people here. A little bit of professionalism would go a long way! The worst: Fighting and yelling common at the C-level and VP-level. Really unenjoyable environment to be in. "Internal politics gone crazy" comment in another review is true in a quite a few ways! Perhaps those giving high reviews of the company probably are not exposed to this.

4.0
Dec 5, 2017

Fast growing, exciting start up

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- work on a great team, everyone is pretty friendly - lots of room for growth, opportunity to work on lots of different projects - free lunches and snacks - fast moving, always busy - exciting technology

Cons

- normal start up growing pains - need to put in more processes for recruiting and hiring - in the works - needs to hire better upper management

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