High pay but poor culture and misleading schedule - Maintenance Technician Lucid Motors Employee Review

2.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Pros

High pay, good benefits, fully paid parental leave (8 weeks)

Cons

Dishonesty in hiring process and inconsistent schedule: I was told I would be working 4pm to 1AM five days a week, somewhat manageable with a family. They switched my schedule immediately after hiring (before even going to shift) to 5pm to 5Am, then 6pm to 2:30am, then 6pm to 5 am, then back to 5pm to 5am. I never actually worked the schedule they said I would, which really messed up my home life. On top of this, they will expect you to work Saturdays and sometimes sundays on short notice, sometimes on a Friday you’ll find out that you’re working on the weekend, full shifts, 12 hours. The work itself? I felt completely unchallenged. My title was maintenance technician, but I can’t actually think of much real maintenance we did. Recovery technician would be a more accurate job title, and it was dull. I came from a very technical background, expecting very technical work at Lucid, but it ended up being mostly resetting sensors and resetting FANUC robots, then resuming the line. The work culture sucks. Night shift was brutal, the managers (one especially) try very hard to please their superiors at the cost of their relationship with technicians. You will have “one on one” interviews every month where it’s actually two managers interrogating you and letting you know about some vague training plan they have for you, for some of the most menial tasks I’ve ever done in a decade of manufacturing.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

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Cons

The “startup energy” pitch is completely false advertising. Nearly every person in a decision making role came from a legacy OEM think Mercedes, BMW, Audi and they brought every slow, bureaucratic, politically charged habit with them. The result is a company that moves at legacy speed while pretending it’s moving fast. The Bay Area location is almost cosmetic. The actual workforce is heavily visa dependent, which creates real cultural fragmentation people aren’t here because they believe in the mission, they’re here because their visa is tied to the job. That affects collaboration, communication, and cohesion in ways that are hard to ignore day to day. Management is a revolving door. People move roles constantly musical chairs is the right metaphor. Nobody owns anything long enough to be accountable for it. Projects stall, priorities shift, and institutional knowledge evaporates. Budget priorities are baffling. Money gets burned on things that don’t matter while the actual important infrastructure, tooling, or resources get underfunded or ignored entirely. Work life balance exists in theory but the dysfunction means you’re constantly compensating for organizational chaos.

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