Lucid Software reviews

4.2

83% would recommend to a friend

(593 total reviews)
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Dave Grow

87% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Lucid Software has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 593 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Lucid Software 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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593 reviews
4.0
Feb 18, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

-Company has a solid product and continues to grow and grow. -Really focused on their two core products - Lucidchart and Lucidpress; they're not getting distracted by trying to build or acquire other things. -They are committed to employee growth. They don't just throw people into management positions. They provide extensive manager training through a program called Learning at Lucid. -They are serious about their values and committing to them. For example, our team was considering hiring someone who was highly qualified, but because he had an enormous ego, they decided not to. They really protect company culture. -Very conservative in their spending (almost to a fault), but it's so nice to be in a profitable company that isn't burning cash at breakneck pace. -Quality leadership. -Lots of perks: annual retreat, stocked kitchens, catered lunch Mondays & Wednesdays, free Trax pass. -Lots of hustle here while promoting a healthy work-life balance.

Cons

-Sometimes the company is so conservative on spending that employees have to lug all the conference gear on the airplane with them instead of having it shipped ahead of time. -Pay is a little lower than other SaaS companies. -A lot of new hires are fairly recently out of college. -No mobile phone reimbursement program, despite the fact that I use my mobile phone for work calls. -The phone system is not good at all.

5.0
Feb 13, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Highly competent, yet approachable coworkers. Relaxed atmosphere in which everyone trusts everyone else to balance working hard and taking breaks to enjoy the numerous activities that go on in the office. Interesting problems to work on and a reasonably high degree of freedom to take on the issues that you're interested in.

Cons

The walls aren't made of chocolate and I wasn't given a free iPad when I signed up? I have nothing tangible to complain about.

4.0
Feb 4, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of good people, good food and vibes, cool growth opportunities, cool silicon valley level group activities, company wide yearly retreat, budget for training etc. Some of these things are actual value and some are perceived value, extras. Will someone stay in a job they hate because they get free pizza every Friday? For most, no. Those are fun things to tell your family and friends about the cool new tech job you got. People stay for the job satisfaction, the people that they work with and report to, and salary. Things like that. Lucid still has that for the most part. Especially in Engineering department and other tech positions. Sales might not be as much. When a company grows this fast, its hard to keep up, no matter what the position. But growth provides career and learning opportunities and makes it way more exciting to be at Lucid. Something that the company is doing really well at are things like inclusion, specifically around gender, race. leadership positions, raises etc. You can feel confident that they will hire/promote you if you are right for the job.

Cons

In my opinion you pay for all the extras out of your salary compared to what other companies would pay. Every department is experiencing growing pains. They are still figuring things out.

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