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Excellent company for an engineer to start a career - Mechanical Engineer - Design and Development Lutron Electronics Employee Review

4.0
Sep 10, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent training, good mentoring, good chances of promotion. The company philosophy includes caring for the employees and they do try to make good on it. Keeping in good contact with your supervisor is key to advancement. High starting salary.

Cons

The company is run by upper management that can make it quite difficult to keep up morale. Project guidance can be erratic if working directly with them, often leading to wasted work and cancelled projects. The company sometimes struggles with actually taking care of its employees. Raises are not sufficient. Rampant presenteism where leaving with less than 1 hour of OT per day can hurt your career independent of actual performance.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Mar 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

— Legitimate portfolio work: the role involved a full website overhaul and product PDP writing, which has real value on a CV — The company name carries weight and looks good on paper

Cons

Pay was consistently late — sometimes by three weeks. No explanation, no heads up, no acknowledgment of the stress this creates for contractors who don't have the luxury of waiting indefinitely for money they've already earned. On the day-to-day side: we were required to produce detailed logs of everything we did — long, tedious activity lists that served no clear purpose and ate into actual work time. The broader culture was captured perfectly in a phrase that came up regularly in stakeholder meetings: "I won't fall on my sword" or "I won't die on that hill" — or some variation of it. Upper management had a consistent habit of deflecting accountability downward onto contract workers, who had the least power and the least protection. When things went wrong, contractors were the convenient explanation. When things went right, that credit traveled elsewhere. If you're considering a contract role here, get your payment schedule in writing and ask very specific questions about how your manager operates. What's described as a flexible, collaborative environment may look quite different once you're in it.

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