Lack of Leadership, Ethics, among other things - Anonymous employee Lutron Electronics Employee Review

1.0
Oct 21, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good place to learn and develop yourself (only if you're starting out)

Cons

Bad pay and well below market regardless of how you start within the company. Meritocracy simply does not exist in this place. Culture is very hostile, competitive and "slave trade". Certain people who have been in the company for years have an internal monopoly and get rid of employees easily and unjustifiably after exploiting them and paying them low wages to protect themselves and their private interests. Many employees who are not happy at the moment with the lack of leadership within the upper management circle. You will have to put up with bureaucracy and intellectual corruption, and they will try to call this "teamwork" despite the fact that members within the same teams constantly shoot each other down. Very little gratitude for the work that one has to do for other people. As mentioned in previous comments, it is a work environment where manipulation thrives and for reasons external to the business (interpersonal relationships and other interests), and for this reason, they have "leaders" who do not have knowledge of the processes, do not have the professional training (NCEES engineering exams that should be a minimum requirement) to have the positions they have. Very thin line between lack of business ethics and hierarchy. Or perhaps both of these go in-hand at Lutron?

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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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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