Lightcast Reviews

3.5

52% would recommend to a friend

(230 total reviews)

Timothy van den Broek

Not enough data to show CEO approval

52% positive business outlook

Lightcast has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 230 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lightcast employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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230 reviews
1.0
18 Feb 2019

Burning Glass, Hard Pass

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The regular people who work there are great. Pretty much everyone is amiable, intelligent, and easy to get along with. This could be a good place for students, interns, or entry-level people to get some short-term experience as there are some brilliant people doing great work every day.

Cons

Vison of management is completely disconnected from the reality of the employees. They don't even pretend to care what ideas or advice employees doing all the work might have. There are company townhalls but they turn into sessions of them passively aggressive putting down the concerns or ideas of any employees who have the courage to speak up. Teams are siloed off from each other and efforts to work across them are met with tribalism and CYA behavior as people are afraid of the wraith of upper management feeling like their toes are getting stepped on if they do anything without approval from them. Work-life balance can be difficult to non-existent depending on your department. The company is drowning in technical debt and everything keeps running due to the heroic efforts of a few overworked Ops, IT, and engineering people. Instead of invest in their tech and systems, they seem to be squeezing analysts, product, and marketing people to come up with ways to repackage/rebrand existing products. It always felt like upper management wasn't concerned with the long-term health or stability of the company and just myopically trying to hit quarterly goals. This is not a company I would recommend to anyone looking for stability and a decent work-life balance.

1.0
16 Feb 2017

Don't Be Fooled

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free food on Fridays is nice

Cons

Leadership consists of all white males that go to the same church. CEO specifically lacks business knowledge and brags about not having a college education. The entire company claims that they're "data scientists" and "economists" when in fact there are only a handful of formally trained individuals - the people who make the false claims that they have actual experience all go to the same church as leadership and have liberal arts degrees from a religious school that filters into that church. I'll never forget when the CEO announced at the annual conference that he is "an economist" and then failed to explain a simple economic principle in front of the entire conference audience.

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