A good place to work - Senior Software Engineer Lightspeed Employee Review

4.0
16 Apr 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lightspeed is a good place to work with s lot of experienced professionals. The team that I work with is easy-going team. The level of work is not that much as well. If you're not looking for be a team lead or manager then it's s nice place to work, for sure.

Cons

Hard to be promoted or have salary increased. Internal processes are not transparent and majority of the time you'll be ghosted, so be happy in your current position and don't expect be promoted.

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Lightspeed Response
2y
Hi, thanks for your review and your many contributions to Lightspeed so far. It's great to hear that you enjoy the culture of Lightspeed and particularly your team and our talented people. We value all feedback so we can continuously improve and are concerned to see your feedback on promotions. We want all of our people to feel supported to thrive and do great work—and be recognized through fair and transparent promotion and talent development across the company. Please reach out to our confidential email, people@lightspeedhq.com to share more details about your feedback, if you can. We’d really appreciate hearing from you to address this directly. Thanks again for your review and hope to hear from you very soon!

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

-Unlimited PTO - Use this, the company allows it. This is the main reason I stayed at this company for so long. If they did not offer it, I would have been gone within minutes.

Cons

-Low pay- the company makes up for not paying you by offering unlimited PTO - They keep switching from Atena to Cigna, Kind of annoying when you already have an established PCP - Constant layoffs, its a running joke in this company that when you become a Team Lead you are about to get laid off. - Pay increase- Also it looks like when you start making too much money, prepare to get laid off. Accepting pay increases comes with less job security - This job you need a lot of adaptability- you never know if you might come in and you have an increased amount of duties because they laid someone off - this increase of duties does NOT come with an increased salary/hourly wage either. You are just expected to take on other peoples job duties for nothing in return. -Literally everyone is figuring out things on the spot, there are no tools provided to you to guide you through things. You just gotta figure it out as you go. - The company asks for more than they give. - The company has way too many meetings. You will end up sitting in meeting listening to other departments speak about things that have NOTHING to do with you. Time is not spent well here, time is wasted. - The CEO is very boastful and braggy, like telling us things about his personal life that doesnt pertain to anything related to work in any way, shape or form disguised as " fun facts" when its just a chance to brag.

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Lightspeed Response
5mo
Hi, thanks for taking the time to leave a review. It’s good to hear that you valued the unlimited PTO however, we’re concerned by the other feedback you’ve shared. We take this feedback seriously and use it to inform ongoing improvements. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
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