Lightspeed reviews

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).

Really the pay. Either your in sales where the majority of your pay is commissions (and you can make decent money but take on a lot of stress) or you're not in sales and the money is mediocre at best to insulting. They fail to pay a competitive salary while hiring many new employees at the same time.