Lutron, enter with extreme caution - Manager Lutron Electronics Employee Review

2.0
Oct 7, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Freedom to explore many opportunities within the company, no "day to day" task lists, talented and friendly peers. Many locations and offices allow individuals to work away from the corporate campus.

Cons

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.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Mar 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

— Legitimate portfolio work: the role involved a full website overhaul and product PDP writing, which has real value on a CV — The company name carries weight and looks good on paper

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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