Pros
Overall I really enjoyed my time working at Lightspeed. - Employees receive great benefits (car, fuel, sport benefit, stock options etc.). - If diversity is important to you, Lightspeed is the best. - Most of the colleagues are great to work with. - Pre-covid the company parties were absolutely amazing.
Cons
Since their IPO Lightspeed is experiencing some severe (possibly fatal) growing pains. Here are some of the symptoms in no particular order: - Complete chaos of acquisitions: most of them seem to happen to bump up the customer count and do not improve the product line-up. - Product listens mostly to the board, which on their turn mostly look at what the competition is doing. There is a complete lack of real innovation or understanding of the customer. - A lot of managers grew from within the company and have no real management background. Loyalty to the company gets too easily rewarded with a leadership role, resulting in a lot of underperforming and/or burnout managers. - The easier it is for upper management to find you on a world map, the more attention your region will get. Both on a product level as on an office level. (As you can expect, Ghent is not so lucky).
