Luminar Reviews

3.1

26% would recommend to a friend

(128 total reviews)
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Austin Russell

31% approve of CEO

16% positive business outlook

Luminar has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 128 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Luminar 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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128 reviews
1.0
25 May 2018

Horrible Work Place

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free lunch, snacks, and drinks. Some nice people work there, which creates a somewhat decent environment for employees. Benefits are great.

Cons

Executives and higher ups want to be feared by all employees. Founder of the company and CTO are clueless as to what really goes on in the company. HR in Orlando is not professional, they create relationships with employees and try to sabotage other employees and their jobs. The company rarely hires or promotes within, they are constantly trying to expand.

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Luminar Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. We strive to provide an environment where everyone feels they’re valued, treated fairly and respected. We’d love to learn more about your experience and how we can improve. Please email us at feedback@luminartech.com.
1.0
5 Jan 2018

Do Not Recommend

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free food. Some smart people. High tech. Interesting problems in the space.

Cons

The company culture feels very secretive and uncollaborative. Speaking to other departments except via official channels is frowned upon. Poor opportunity for career advancement internally. Quite a few high performers have gotten upset about not having opportunity for promotion. In case you do join, get your position clarified first and make sure you're happy with it! Some rude people here. A little bit of professionalism would go a long way! The worst: Fighting and yelling common at the C-level and VP-level. Really unenjoyable environment to be in. "Internal politics gone crazy" comment in another review is true in a quite a few ways! Perhaps those giving high reviews of the company probably are not exposed to this.

1.0
6 Jul 2018

Luminar desperately needs a new CEO

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Great co-workers and free food

Cons

HORRIBLE Senior Leadership team. They are completely unaligned, argue constantly and the CEO is far from a leader and is completely unproductive. He may have re-developed a great technology, but he has zero clue how to run the company or drive the business.

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