Downward trajectory - werkgeversreview Lighting Designer bij LUMA Lighting Design

My colleagues were talented, thoughtful, and pleasant to be around. The office is beautiful (and healthy!). There are fun activities and a generally comfortable work environment.

The management has a lot of work to do. They do not value anyone who is different from them. In order to succeed, you have to fit into their rigid, ego-driven expectations. There is no open communication, misleading feedback, and clear bias. The company claims to be triple bottom line, valuing people, planet, and profit equally. In reality, it feels more like profit, profit, profit.

There aren’t a lot of pros unless you’re a white man with minimal ethics and below baseline empathy. Although healthcare benefits are good, they’ll quickly have you maxing out your deductible with medical concerns relating to emotion and mental distress.

With an all white, male management team, no one will be surprised by the lack of interpersonal skills, dishonesty, and blatant disregard for female designers. The level of egotistical nonsense is giving me hives as we speak. LUMA management openly refuses to attend formal management trainings due to “cost”, lies directly to employees faces, and tells women to “smile” more.