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Lightspeed Systems reviews

3.3

55% would recommend to a friend

(101 total reviews)
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Brian Thomas

58% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.5

Work/Life balance

3.2

Culture & values

3.2

Diversity & inclusion

3.2

Compensation and benefits

3.2

Career opportunities

3.0

Senior management

Lightspeed Systems has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 101 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lightspeed Systems employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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101 reviews
5.0
Jan 6, 2025

Lightspeed delivers software that has an impact.

Solutions architect
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lightspeed's software is used in K-12 education around the world. That means no matter what product you're working on your providing a positive impact to students learning around the world.

Cons

Lightspeed's workload can feel seasonal. Schools tend to align to a similar schedule. Some years we end up working a bit more during the back to school seasons.

1.0
Dec 31, 2024

Great individual contributors; Poor executive leadership

Engineering
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- some products provide great value to school IT groups - most individuals were great to work with - chance to work with unexpectedly high-scale applications - good place for recent graduates to get a little experience/disillusionment on their resume before inevitably moving on (by their choice or not) - donkeys at the Austin office are pretty chill

Cons

- revolving carousel of c-level hires made consistency of vision difficult - leadership likes to set last-minute arbitrary deadlines that require you to work on company holidays - plenty of capital for constant re-orgs, but rarely any for raises - change of focus to creating varying types of spyware masquerading as "safety" solutions is a bit soul crushing - meeting PE investor numbers seems to require almost-annual layoffs - senior staff not very receptive to ideas for improvement if they didn't come up with said ideas - internal promotions into non-IC roles almost nonexistent; rather hire from outside - parts of engineering seem to adhere to a "70% is a passing grade" mentality where quality is concerned

4.0
Sep 17, 2024

Great Mission Poor Execution

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

*Good Pay *Great office (if located in Austin, TX) *Great Team *Fairly transparent on roadmap

Cons

*Constant reorgs at the cost of losing great people *Product QA could be better to prevent product issues *

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