How a company can go from decent to horrible in less than 5 steps - Anonymous employee Luminos Labs Employee Review

1.0
13 Aug 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

A few decent developers ... unfortunately that's it.

Cons

The company is the spitting image of its CEO, an arrogant, impulsive, self-absorbed person who couldn't care less about his employees and has no notion of what loyalty means. Starting from 2020/2021 and up to 2024 the CEO decided that several departments are useless and started to close them one by one (Project Management, Business Analysis, Quality Assurance, Client Management, etc). All responsibilities from these departments were simply thrown in the hands of the developers which most of them are unexperienced (less than 2-3 years of work experience). There were no salary adjustments, just extra responsibilities and stress. The office politics are one of the worst I've seen, middle-management is just a few people with no back-bone, no opinion of their own. If you dare to say anything, have a different/contrary opinion to the CEO, you are marginalized asap (you are with us or against us mentality) There's also a scam with the promise of stock options without any contract, so watch out!!!

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Luminos Labs Response
1y
It is true that we've made very significant restructuring over the last several years. The rest of the information here is not true. For example, we pay highly competitive salaries, and our stock options are managed through Carta, which includes the management of those agreements. This is very likely written by a former employee (Dan V) who was let go after many unsuccessful attempts to find common ground and who is unfortunately very upset and revengeful.

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5.0
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Pros

They care about their employees and you can feel it!

Cons

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Luminos Labs Response
2y
We appreciate the 5-star review, but I believe this is for a different company.
4.0
10 Apr 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Remote work, salary was nice, smart people

Cons

You have to get on the CEO's good side

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Luminos Labs Response
2y
Thank you for your feedback. That’s true when it comes to our culture, vision, and strategy if we want to stand a chance in this highly competitive industry.
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