Does Luminar pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Luminar employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.6 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Luminar. This rating has decreased by 4% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Luminar?

31% of Luminar employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Luminar 3.1 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.9 for culture and values and 3.1 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Luminar?

Software Engineer (7) , Engineer (6) , Senior Staff Software Engineer (5) , Senior Software Engineer (4) , Manager (3) , Mechanical Engineer (3) , Sr Systems Engineer (3) , Staff Engineer (3) , Design Engineer (2) , Embedded Software Test Engineer (2) , Executive Assistant (2) , Project Manager (2) , Quality Engineer (2) , Quality Technician (2) , Senior Recruiter (2)

What are the pros of working at Luminar according to real employee reviews?

"Benefits are great." ((in 8 reviews)); "Great product and team." ((in 7 reviews)); "Free food daily" ((in 7 reviews)); "Working in latest technology and pay in very competitive" ((in 6 reviews)); "Hard working, honest, and good people, super technology, lots of growth opportunities." ((in 6 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Luminar according to real employee reviews?

"1. Bad management." ((in 10 reviews)); "Hours are long and overtime is weekly" ((in 5 reviews)); "Bad leadership here." ((in 4 reviews)); "not enough growth, clueless upper management" ((in 3 reviews)); "CEO was pretty much absent from day" ((in 3 reviews))

What are employees saying about Luminar layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Luminar layoffs and their outlook for job security at Luminar in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Luminar locations?

Orlando , Palo Alto , Sunnyvale , Menlo Park , San Francisco

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3.3

31% would recommend to a friend

(131 total reviews)

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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131 reviews

4.0

Dec 5, 2017

Fast growing, exciting start up

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

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

5.0

Nov 14, 2017

Forefront of autonomous driving

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Working on the state of the art tech behind self driving cars - Well funded and ready to take on the future of SDCs - Great team of experienced people building the hardware and software - Some massive clients like Toyota!

Cons

- Growing super fast so running into slight speed bumps here and there

2.0

Jul 1, 2024

Great engineers, Very poor management

Lidar engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The engineers are very motivated and sharp.

Cons

Management seems to lack direction and is unable to properly assess risk of projects. Churn burns engineers out.

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