Pros
- Genuinely nice and helpful people abound at Lucid, especially at the individual contributor level. Very familial feel without any kind of that toxic "we're a family here" behavior that often is just a gateway to abuse workers. - Benefits and 401k match are solid - Manageable workloads (at least on my team) - At least at the moment, and at least on my team, Lucid's practices what its product preaches by supporting whatever type of work the employee prefers (remote only, hybrid, in-office)
Kontras
In my opinion only: - Lucid's recent round of layoffs revealed a lot of inexperience and IMO lack of empathy on Lucid's part, and a chasm between preached and practiced culture. Non-impacted employees were encouraged to not reach out for days to those laid off, nor were we told who from our wider teams was laid off so we could reach out quickly if we wanted—making it feel to me like "every man for themselves" to figure out who needed our support. It almost seemed as if Lucid was trying to avoid any kind of concerted publicity on LinkedIn of the fact that they had to do layoffs, likely because of how proud it seemed they'd been of the fact they weren't doing layoffs in 2021 and 2022 while competitors were. Leadership: Don't say "we're here to help" and then be reticicent when sh*t actually gets difficult. Get in the dirt with your former colleagues and help them know you're there to help, otherwise just don't promise that. - For as much as Lucid promotes itself as the leader of the visual colloboration space, it seems to me we spend an awful lot of time eyeballing what the competition is doing instead of focusing on what seem to me like outdated areas of our own products. And for such a hotly competitive space, we feel suprisingly slow moving sometimes on competitive initiatives. - It feels like we're often conservative to a fault compared to having the scrappy startup mentality that got Lucid to the top of the pile years ago. - I also feel we're collaborative to a fault, likely as the unfortunate byproduct of selling a collaboration product. Waaaay to many meetings to talk about decisions that absolutely don't need to be made by committee. - My experience with mid-level managers at Lucid is they don't really have a lot of autonomy to make bold, confident decisions on their own without running it by their leaders first (where that over conservatism often just results in a "thank you for the idea, but that's not a priority this quarter"), and they are generally risk- and experimentation-averse. A lot of these leaders have been at Lucid 5+ years, with Lucid as either their first real job out of college or their first management experience, so I suspect they just lack any kind of context around how other companies operate. - Incredibly confusing career growth tracks that managers don't seem particuarly motivated to help their direct reports make sense of