Lightspeed reviews

Of course there are things that aren't perfect 1) Hours are long. This isn't a place you leave at 5pm everyday. I've never been told to stay late, but the flip side of being empowered is being accountable. So I know that if I don't get my work done, others will be impacted. It's a lot sometimes. 2) Growing pains. Since I started a few years ago, the company has grown a ton. This growth is a ton of fun, but it's not easy. The hardest part is getting used to constant change (role, colleagues, and systems change a lot). Those that wouldn't like that won't like lightspeed.

The focus of the company seems to change every other week. It seems like we learn a new buzzword they're trying to sell every company meeting. The HR department is sort of... non-existent. They're all really nice people, but they have no real power to do anything or help. The benefits are average to below-average. The bare minimum for vacation is provided (2 weeks if I recall correctly), but the salary was competitive. The company as a whole is very clique-ish. Among development groups, each individual project is ultra-defensive on its role within the company, probably to justify their existence, but it's just frustrating to see a company with so many products and yet no one is working together. Maybe this has improved since I left, I don't know. Work/life balance ranged from decent to terrible. Some weeks I was working upwards of 60+ hours, but making no real progress toward any end goal. In many cases, the end goal was a moving target that was barely defined beyond a few words (like, "it should work"). The reason I left, however, is as follows: it looks like the majority of the development leads across projects suffer from god complexes. In my team in particular, I got to watch a developer with ~10 years of experience be treated like he could barely spell due to a flaw in a design he had come up with (for a truly non-critical component of the product). I've seen guys with ~5 years experience be referred to as junior engineers. There's no trust whatsoever among leads to allow their developers to do things by themselves. My team was so horribly broken that nobody (except the lead) had any confidence in their own work. I moved to another team, and it was the same issue: everyone (except the lead) was essentially broken, second-guessing their own work. I'd sit in design meetings with colleagues where we'd bounce ideas around, help flesh out ideas, then watch them crumble during reviews with the lead because they seemed to lose their ability to communicate (literally, there was something psychologically wrong with the situation). The development course of the products is so closed-minded, decided unilaterally by one person with little regard for feedback from their engineers. Unless you're a code monkey, this is so annoyingly frustrating.