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

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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131 reviews
2.0
May 14, 2025

Lost in the Wilderness

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free lunch was a nice perk

Cons

-No vision -Management hired grifter friends for bogus trainings -Non-existent program management -Toxic, highly political environment -too heavy, everyone is a director, so who is doing work?

2.0
Apr 27, 2025

Leadership by fear

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Pros

Opportunities to learn and grow. Fair pay and benefits. Free meals.

Cons

Working at Luminar has been a challenging experience due to the negative culture being brought by the new management overseeing accounting, internal audit and IT. The management cultivates an environment of fear, often resorting to disreapectful and abusive language. Job security feels contingent on how well you can suck up to management, rather than on your own performance. The new management disscourages communication, making everything beaucratic and centralized around one person. The leadership team is severely underqualified, lacking the appropriate certifications and education. As a result, the attrition rate within the team over the last 6 months has been extremely high and majority of the individuals have chosen to leave rather than endure this hostile atmosphere. I like working at Luminar but had to quit because of the politics of the new management. Micromanagement and fear is rampant, which silences hard working employees and initiative among staff.

2.0
Apr 18, 2025

Beware of creative compensation packages

Anonymous employee
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Pros

95% of the team there are excellent, well intentioned people, working hard. the other 5%, not so much. Unfortunately, that 5% exists in the upper management. The tech is bleeding edge and has promise, eventually.

Cons

When I signed on I was given a compensation package which included stock grants, 401k match, and other perks. In my time there, one by one they all disappeared until it was not sustainable to stay. Management was chasing mistakes instead of making the tough decisions.

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