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Architectural Lighting Works

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1.0
23 Sept 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

They pay on time, but if you are looking for any type of profit sharing: you can forget it

Cons

Founder is a crusty Brit who believes there are two types of people: the nobility and everyone else. If you are an employee here, you are treated like garbage. The saying A's hire A's and B's hire C's, totally goes here. The founder just completely blew it when he hired the current CEO, who is a sociopath who rules by fear and using her power as the boss to terrorize her employees. Just a horrible environment that no one enjoys. Everyone is expected to do the job of more than one, while the executives do little to nothing and take long, extended vacations.

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5.0
26 Jan 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great teammates, great culture. Company has a clear strategy and shares it with the team, including real-time updates on performance and challenges. ALW managed the past two years very well and kept the entire team motivated through remote working and market conditions.

Cons

There is always room for improvement, but there are no cons for me to list.

1.0
19 Aug 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Core ALW team members are very hard working even through the mis-communications and issues between upper management. -Very neat products, highly customizable -Cool office space

Cons

-The biggest issue at hand is stemming from the CEO and upper management themselves. At times, it seems like there is no direction or goal to meet. When there is, if there is, the goals and company directions are not layed out to the rest of the team members. It feels like upper management has some sort of ulterior motive/plan. It also doesn't feel like this will be changing anytime soon. -ALW through the transitional period was chaotic and a huge mess. There was no planning and organization on any aspect of the transition besides the procurement and purchasing of the new office and it's supplies. -CEO and upper management does intensive micro-management on simple tasks. Other tasks are given with little or no direction so employees are not sure what to produce. -CEO and upper management puts down rules and policies but doesn't follow it themselves. Employees then get punished if the project doesn't turn out how the customer wanted even though the employees followed the rules and policies that were previously set.

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