Lutron Electronics reviews

Aging upper management / ownership is content in operating as a 1960's company and refuses to adopt forward thinking ways instilling the unwritten philosophy that "the engineer is always right" (this applies to marketing, sales, personnel, etc. with disastrous results). No real advancement opportunities, miserly raises, infrequent and extremely incremental promotions. Lutron employees are looked upon as a collection of chess pieces, often hired from well known corporations or with excellent credentials but the company fails to utilize these people to their strengths and will repurpose individuals outside of their expertise, believing that successes translate to vastly different tasks. Questionable "leaders" with poor to non-existant management and employee development skills. Lutron fails to understand how to keep talented individuals from leaving (currently a large issue) and employee moral high. Lutron can be an extremely stressful place to work, individuals are expected to come early and stay late (beyond the scope of the typical 8-5 day) with no real concern for personal lives of employees. Employee feedback to the upper management means nothing, and will always fall on deaf ears. Lutron operates in its own bubble and fails to react to market demands, choosing rather to build "toys" for the aging ownership - often leading to questionable product and undermining company bottom line. This translates to excuses for the lack of raises (salary freeze) and bonuses for the masses. To recap, horrendous management with extremely inept leaders, no advancement and low pay, very stressful environment. Stay away if you value your career or until massive changes take place.

- Pay increases minimal and dont keep up with inflation. I was paid more than others I know from other companies to start, now im paid substantially less. I'm an above average performer who has never had other than excellent reviews. - Company is losing focus of the "Take Care of the People" principle as time goes on. Employees are seen more and more as mere resources which is also leading to a decline of the team atmosphere that was present several years ago. - Long hours are just expected without extra pay (no overtime, flextime, etc.). If you leave at 5 you feel like you're leaving early, even at 6-7 theres often quite a few people still working. Some engineers, SEs usually, work until 10, 11pm regularly, which makes the rest of the guys seems like slackers because their output is alot lower. So if you want to impress by working late, buy a cot. - If you don't have the title 'Engineer' at the end of your degree, your pay and availability to move up is limited. Both 2 year and 4 year technical degrees hit a glass ceiling at a certain point, no matter how well you perform. An EE of a few years can bang rocks all day, and an EET of 10+ years can do amazing things, but the EE will remain on top. - When issues occur you can expect to work ridiculous hours, including nights, weekends, scheduled vacation days etc. Taking care of the customer is number 1, so sometimes this is expected, but it happens too often for poor reasons. When issues are resolved, dont expect much more than a pat on the back, and for it to be forgotten about by upper managment in less than a day. - Travel is often scheduled on weekends to save the company your time, so not only do you leave your family for a period of time, but you lose a weekend day or days too, with no additional pay (if you're salary) - Things can be very personal. If you want to move up you need the right friends. If the right person doesnt like you, don't slip up or you may suddenly decide to resign. - Unfortunately, with alot of really smart people as coworkers and leaders, arrogance runs amuck which can be really frustrating at times. It makes you feel good to be made an idiot of in front of your peers and other leaders (Some leaders are better than you could ask for, just a select few act this way)