Lytro Reviews

Middle management is horrible and frustrating to work for. Goals, requirements, deliverables are not clearly spelled out. Feedback is not given clearly. Communication is overall very poor, resulting in frustration and wasted time, and projects having to be done over and over again because direction can't be given either from the get go, or to make corrections and achieve desired change. Micro-management, even within management rolls. "Work-life balance" is a joke, it's the start up culture and mentality for sure. Poor prioritization and time management leads to everything being PRIORITY 1o and crisis mode to get everything done before deadlines. Camera company with no photographers - and when they do hire photographers they don't listen to them - or think that they know better - resulting in frustrating/not user friendly products which are difficult to represent. Totally unrealistic about the real user and current market for the newer product, and unwilling to listen and make realistic adaptations for that market.

Lack of experience with software development process is frustrating. Management has a poor attitude towards people management (no reviews, no bonuses, no frequent 1:1s, no "voice of the workforce"). Executive management lacks experience in product development to execute quickly.