Staff - Anonymous employee Lightspeed Employee Review

2.0
7 Apr 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Salary, People, Work equipment, Offsite activities

Cons

The structure of responsibilities is very unclear — it’s impossible to understand who is accountable for what. I often find out about my own tasks after the fact. There’s a complete disregard for work/life balance. Managers openly state that employees will receive tasks that require working late into the night (without any additional pay), and this is considered normal. There is absolutely no proper mentorship for new employees. All sense of autonomy in decision-making is lost due to constant pressure and restrictions from all sides. The product is extremely complex and difficult to understand, and no one offers help in figuring it out. At the same time, leadership insists that you must figure everything out on your own, or you won’t pass the probation period. Overall, the company environment feels unhealthy.

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Lightspeed Response
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Hi, thanks for taking the time to leave a review and for the impact you are making at Lightspeed. It’s concerning to hear your feedback, this isn’t at all the experience we’d like for our people. We take feedback seriously and would like to understand your feedback better so we can address it - if you are open to it, we'd encourage you to reach out to your People Business Partner or on our confidential mailbox people@lightspeedhq.com. Thank you for sharing this and hope to hear from you soon.

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