Lytro reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(40 total reviews)

Jason Rosenthal

67% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Lytro has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 40 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lytro 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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40 reviews
1.0
Sep 20, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pros: Catered lunches. HR team is nice and most of the employees are great.

Cons

Middle management is horrible and frustrating to work for. Goals, requirements, deliverables are not clearly spelled out. Feedback is not given clearly. Communication is overall very poor, resulting in frustration and wasted time, and projects having to be done over and over again because direction can't be given either from the get go, or to make corrections and achieve desired change. Micro-management, even within management rolls. "Work-life balance" is a joke, it's the start up culture and mentality for sure. Poor prioritization and time management leads to everything being PRIORITY 1o and crisis mode to get everything done before deadlines. Camera company with no photographers - and when they do hire photographers they don't listen to them - or think that they know better - resulting in frustrating/not user friendly products which are difficult to represent. Totally unrealistic about the real user and current market for the newer product, and unwilling to listen and make realistic adaptations for that market.

5.0
Nov 27, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Experienced, competent engineers who know how to collaborate. Good allocation of resources, plenty of open space, lots of IT support, boatloads of snacks, and decent benefits.

Cons

Lytro is still a start-up, so it is not without some risk.

5.0
Oct 12, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people are top notch. Some of the best talent around in many roles. As with many start ups, most people end up wearing multiple hats. This gives one great opportunities to learn and grow. Working environment and culture is great too. Beautiful office and a very open collaborative environment matches the team oriented approach of the people here. New CEO has done a great job keeping people focused and marching to schedules. This is very important given the complexity of the product. The great culture that was in place has only been enhanced under him.

Cons

Very much a startup in that there is a lot of fast paced decision making, which I liked but may not be for everyone.

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