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I love my job, executive management sucks - Mfg Engineer Lumentum Operations Employee Review

3.0
Apr 1, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits, especially health care insurance are excellent. If you are good at what you do as an individual contributor and your manager supports or ignores you, you can do whatever you want. I work on interesting, challenging and useful projects. I've done the best work in my career here. I look forward to going to work every day. Local management is supportive but limited in what they can do to improve my performance. I get paid very well as an HCE, so I have no complaints there. If your are good at what you do, this is the place for you. Because you can deal with all the Cons below.

Cons

Infrastructure functions like IT, HR, EHS and facilities are dysfunctional and incompetent. The company doesn't like to spend money to keep up with industry capability. I get to work with obsolete, less capable, impaired and unsupported tools. Executive management is from the disc drive industry and have no clue what a compound semiconductor is. Executive management does not embrace the concept of investing for capability improvement or maintenance. Executive management is totally incompetent, the board of directors should fire them all and seek competent replacements.

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Lumentum Operations Response
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Thank you for your considerable feedback. We are happy to hear you are enjoying the scope and nature of your work and the time you spend here each day. We do value your opinion and will take it into consideration moving forward.

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