Terrible management/leadership, stay far away!! Since I started working at LMI 4 years ago, I went through 7 rounds of layoffs. It got so bad that they stopped announcing layoffs to employees because moral was so low. As others have said, company just feels super bloated with terrible middle managers who don’t know how to run a successful company. All the smart people have left the company by now.
They pretend to be innovative but in reality that is the farthest thing from the truth. There are so many barriers to being innovative & its not in the DNA of the company, which was really frustrating for those who actually wanted to make a difference. I think another problem is that management looks down on their employees and doesn’t value their opinion. LMI is also in the business of buying companies and cutting costs by outsourcing engineering from expensive areas like California to Germany and eventually Budapest. Look at what happened to GoToMeeting, the flagship product. Moved from San Francisco to Germany with the goal of eventually being moved to Budapest.
The company does a terrible job of recognizing talent & it often feels like those who bark loudest get promoted, not those who actually deserve it. My manager had no idea what was going on & did not know what anyone was working on. I never got promoted in my time at LMI. My previous boss had put me up for promotion but then he quit, and though my Director had assured me that I would still get promoted that never happened. When I quit he tried to tell me that if I stuck around I would get promoted, but it was too late at that point.
It was a toxic work environment where most people hated their job and where there just to receive their paycheck or because they were tied down due to visa issues. There was no sense of community or life outside of work.
