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Lilliputian Systems

Is this your company?

Be warned Stay away! A 12 year old start up should be your first warning. - Engineer Lilliputian Systems Employee Review

1.0
Jun 11, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free lunch on some Fridays. Offered great option packages to start. Salaries were competitive.

Cons

Poor ownership. Ramped up head count stating that the product was ready to go into high volume only to find out that the product is not even close to being released. Almost doubled the head count to keep up with high volumes only to lay everyone off two months later when the new CEO was hired. Hmmm. Coincidence?

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5.0
Jan 12, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

good people, very good people

Cons

no real cons at all

1.0
Jan 3, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Cool technology if it had worked.

Cons

This company's product could have made it to market by 2008 if one of the very early loud mouthed employees had ineptly built test fixtures that poisoned every fuel cell they made during the first 5 years. During that time, all of their fuel cells failed after 5 minutes of operation. This happened entirely because the founders (one mostly) shielded their friends and treated everyone else with open disrespect. But that delay also sucked resources from the packaging & systems engineering. Had that very early employee never been hired (or been fired back in 2003 at the first sign of trouble), this company would have gotten it's product to market before 2008. The bad management also resulted in a lot of mission creep, so a lot of reinventing the wheel (e.g. reinventing aquarium pumps) happened unnecessarily for reasons analogous to Steve Jobs waste of resources at failing NeXT over things that didn't matter.

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