Not enough workers/staffs, wearing too many hats! - Lead Engineer Lumenalta Employee Review

1.0
9 Jun 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Vacation Flexible Family Leave As all positions here at Clevertech, it's all remote!

Cons

Too much work, there are times I feel like swamp. It's under staff. Either HR or someone doesn't know how to do their job! It's not about how well the person understand coding in any language. It's more like finding the right people who fits in this company, requirement or nowadays 'culture'. Even the current staff, I feel they just hand off their projects to other people.

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Lumenalta Response
7y
We’re always grateful to hear feedback from our tenured, senior developers; and please don’t hesitate to reach out to your Product Analyst, or your HR point of contact, or Senior Management, or other Tech Leads… you’ve got support! We work hard here, and deliver to our team world class challenges that provide us all with opportunities to improve our technical abilities, management techniques, and help our clients solve difficult problems. If we weren’t working hard to create solutions, we wouldn’t be true to our core values of Mastery and Purpose. We’re sorry to hear that there are times when you feel swamped. While some sprints have us working more than 8 hours in a day, if measured over a longer period of time, we aim for the average 40-hour work week. We regularly measure our workplace climate through anonymous surveys using CultureAmp. In our most recent survey, 93% of our team reported: “I believe my workload is reasonable for my role.” (http://bit.ly/CultureAmpWorkLife) We also share your concern for “finding the right people who fit” within our culture, and we encourage you to contribute positively, and work collaboratively to support our community.

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1.0
8 Jan 2026
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Pros

remote work, so can work schedule around school runs. However, even though they say you can work from anywhere, in practice it's very frowned upon by the new management.

Cons

- bought by private equity, whose partners have no clue about running tech companies, and they cut all the benefits that made the company good, and changed the company culture - it's no longer a place you feel valued and can grow in. - they run a round of lay-offs a week before bonuses go out, so they won't have to pay their top producing talent, whom they have already told would be receiving bonuses. - They are also a bit dishonest on compensation, you have to pay close attention to your paychecks to make sure they are correct. This isn't a new thing under Private Equity for them, either, they've always done it. - they have always been very cheap, and have always hired purely based on cost, not talent. This is why they were off-shoring pioneers, since 2000. It was very frustrating having to pass over amazing candidates for jobs who were asking very fair salaries in order to choose people who were not at all or barely qualified simply because they'd do the job for much less. - similar vein to hiring unqualified but cheap people, most of the C-suite and top-level management had little to none management experience before the Private Equity brought them in, so they manage their teams very poorly. - The only person with any say in the company is the president, nobody else can do anything without his blessing.

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Lumenalta Response
5mo
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. We appreciate all feedback and take it seriously. Talent development and pay transparency are extremely important to us, and we continually review our practices to ensure we support our team in a fair, thoughtful, and consistent manner. We encourage open dialogue and welcome conversations with current or former team members who would like to share more context directly.
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