Impersonal work place - Anonymous employee Lutron Electronics Employee Review

3.0
Feb 24, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Perfect for a first job experience out of college, you'll find lots of other engineers who are in the same place as you are. You can learn a lot if you are a new engineer. If you perform, you won't have to worry about job security, the company has never layed-off any of its work force. Lots of opportunities to change position if you're an engineer, because of the size of the engineering department and the diversity of the projects.

Cons

You are expected to work overtime and week-ends to meet questionable project goals. A lot of engineers end up burning-out and go find better opportunities elsewhere in the industry. Lot of people leave after a few years. As such you are just a number, management will move you around with no real considerations of your personal interests. People don't say hello or goodbye, don't' seem to care much about others except when it is professional. As a result the atmosphere is very impersonal. With the crisis in the real estate market, management put more and more pressure on employees and one of their value "take care of the people" has just become a bumper sticker. The market Lutron is in is currently depressed. Unexperienced engineers are given responsibilities which often yield to disasters that you will be asked to solve after regular working hours and during week-ends to meet goals that are often questionable from a engineering or a business perspective. During one of my hiring interview, I was explained how Lutron doesn't want unions to get in, which I found a bit weird and not appropriate at the time. The owner is 70+ and still try to rein the management team, who is scared of him and will bow and cascade questionable engineering and business goals down the organization. The owner promotes a loose and ever changing organization to better control the company and the upper management. As a result there is few accountability.

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Cons

Pay was consistently late — sometimes by three weeks. No explanation, no heads up, no acknowledgment of the stress this creates for contractors who don't have the luxury of waiting indefinitely for money they've already earned. On the day-to-day side: we were required to produce detailed logs of everything we did — long, tedious activity lists that served no clear purpose and ate into actual work time. The broader culture was captured perfectly in a phrase that came up regularly in stakeholder meetings: "I won't fall on my sword" or "I won't die on that hill" — or some variation of it. Upper management had a consistent habit of deflecting accountability downward onto contract workers, who had the least power and the least protection. When things went wrong, contractors were the convenient explanation. When things went right, that credit traveled elsewhere. If you're considering a contract role here, get your payment schedule in writing and ask very specific questions about how your manager operates. What's described as a flexible, collaborative environment may look quite different once you're in it.

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