LAMPS PLUS reviews

2.8

31% would recommend to a friend

(219 total reviews)

Dennis Swanson

30% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

LAMPS PLUS has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 219 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The LAMPS PLUS employee rating is 21% below average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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219 reviews
3.0
Dec 9, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I worked with the internet programming and the online marketing departments. The place is full of contradictions. On one hand you will find some real good techies here and on the other you will find some real stupid people stuck to the company since decades. The CEO is ill-advised by the tech managers who really don't understand technology. Which means the company doesn't really have a technology vision. If you are a 'yes-sayer' and have a bit of patience to put up with nonsensical management decisions on technology, you shouldn't have any issues as far as job security is concerned. Work-life balance is never a concern here. You will never have to work for more than 8hrs a day - in fact mostly much less than that. They pay decently and also enable you with good hardware so you are productive. The other non-tech departments are good, and I know for a fact that the employees are quite happy there. It's like a family there and everyone has a personal connect with the CEO.

Cons

Middle management in technology teams in this company is really bad. They have survived purely due to their connect with the CEO and not due to merit. Don't expect to grow into doing something else in this company. You will be hired as a developer and you will die as a developer.

2.0
Mar 25, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Developers, team leads, and QA team are talented people and great to work with Dedicated ScrumMasters and test case managers allow teams to focus on their work without many impediments Salary is one of the best in the area Annual parties can be fun... if your manager allows you to participate Very little accountability, so a minimal amount of effort is required to stay employed Marketing team is well-staffed and has exceptional leadership by LP standards Laptops are not issued to most web development employees, so working from home on evenings and weekends is very rare

Cons

Most interaction outside of your immediate Scrum team is unbearable Wide range of talent and motivation within the product team. Since there is little to no accountability for bad product work, dev teams have to work with whatever they are given (and take the fall when the product ends up not hitting stakeholder expectations) Health benefits have poor coverage and are incredibly expensive (well over $1k per month for a family) The amount of overhead from web development management and architects slows projects, requires a lot of arbitrary rework, and hurts the team morale Wen dev management will occasionally demand shortcuts to move up the launch date of projects but will then rely on the development team to support features and tools that don't work reliably in perpetuity. The team is supporting 10-year-old tools that run critical business functions, randomizing developers on a regular basis I was regularly asked to lie to senior management about the status of projects Some web dev managers often have inappropriate conversations with employees in-person and via email. When reported to HR, even with email documentation, little is done to alleviate the situation The web dev department has a hard time retaining women, who (when actually hired) have typically not been treated with the same respect as male counterparts Developers are packed into small rooms/cubicles like sardines, which I can't imagine met fire code Time clock, little PTO, poor holiday schedule, terrible parking, bad coffee, cheap lighting within workspaces, very old chairs and desks, few meeting rooms Senior management has been known to fall asleep in meetings and makes presentations very awkward

3.0
Sep 19, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1)Easy Job 2)great place to learn fundamentals of lighting 3)fast pace

Cons

1)Get treated like a lesser human being 2)Constantly getting crazy customers 3)No support from corporate 4)terrible HR 5)Unless you work at store level, nobody understands how the sales floor operations. 6)Excepts us to task and do the job of hourly workers without pay and at the same time maintain sales goals.

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