LEDVANCE Reviews

Recent management changes have resulted in a decrease in perks and benefits, including no raises to compentate for your already below average salary, minimal bonuses, as well as a rise in health care costs. The health care is so bad, an average trip to the doctor for something like a sinus infection will run you close to $200, if not more. There are mandatory work hours from 8:00 to 5:30 making it difficult for anyone with kids or activities outside of work to have any sort of life. Employees are no longer able to work from home. In fact, in a company email, it was suggested that employees leave earlier than usual to ensure they still get there in time during inclement weather. If you do happen to end up with a considerate manager, sometimes things can be worked out. Otherwise, you're stuck working for Corporate America USA. Budgets have been cut, resulting in a loss of workforce and agencies/tools needed to do your job. Women often feel degraded and neglected, as there are few women in any higher level roles, the maternity policy is a joke (1 week for each year you're there), and they definitely get paid significantly less than their male counterparts. If you're lucky enough to have the tools to do your job, they are either antiquated or extremely basic without all the features you need to do the job effectively. And you will get yelled at when someone doesn't like what was done or something they suggest can't actually be accomplished. Most business units have no plan of action, and things are rushed and done poorly. The company has no direction. Our German HQ has control over almost everything, meaning things we should be doing here in the US are done in Germany which doesn't always work for the US market, and makes it extremely difficult trying to communicate with them to explain exactly what needs to get done. Given their excessive holidays and vacation time, they're rarely in the office when you need them and things drag on for months before they get done. It would be much quicker and more efficient to do things here.

Last year the company called Ledvance split away from Osram. Ledvance is owned by a private investor in China. The US region was given complete autonomy under a leadership of male neanderthals from the 1950's who came back from retirement to run it. It then became possibly the worst place to work for with constant layoffs, forced resignations, and taking back of flex plans -- you must work 8 hours a day in difficult to get to office in Wilmington if you are a headquarters person. Also no raises last year and no compensation for all the extra work that was done on top of the regular work to split Ledvance from Osram. Now they are saying if someone in your department is terminated you must take up their job in addition to your own. In the US this is a regimented slave-driving company with a backward looking almost bizarre leadership team. Stay away if you value your career.