Good Work/Life Balance in a constantly changing environment - Anonymous employee UL Solutions Employee Review

4.0
Dec 23, 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

UL affords a great work/life balance. Flexible schedule with the ability to occasionally work from home makes it easy to balance responsibilities at home with those at work. Coworkers are genuinely friendly and easy to get along with, even those in management. Used to be a monopoly in the industry until newer companies caught them sleeping and took away market share. Now they seem to have their act together in terms of future goals and planning to regain market share. Your day to day work, though monotonous, helps protect consumers from unsafe products.

Cons

Change, Change, Change. As I said, UL is working hard to regain market share while branching into new markets. Oftentimes, this means changing things just for the sake of changing. Many ideas get implemented without thoroughly thinking through the immediate impact, and many ideas get abandoned within a few weeks. Seems like every few weeks, there is a complete retooling of work flow processes and systems. On a day to day level, work can become monotonous. For engineers, not much technical skill is required (though communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts are very important, which is a pro). Hard to figure out the basis for promotions and raises. Salary is on the lower end of the industry average.

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Cons

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Pros

The work is interesting. Some decent travel is available if desired. If you work hard and set yourself apart from others you can earn a promotion.

Cons

It’s all about who you know. All responsibilities fall on Engineering. Engineering does much more than “engineer” and spend too much time on stuff that admin staff “should be able” to do. When something needs to change the usual solution is to have Engineers be responsible for it because many non-engineers can’t handle mediocre tasks.

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