The negative reviews are true - Anonymous employee Lucid Motors Employee Review

2.0
2 Apr 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Strong vision and a well engineered product.

Cons

I have to agree with the comments made about Lucid Motors and the leadership team. Many members of the leadership team are incompetent and struggle with decision making. The CEO is nothing more than an ornament. The CTO, who is a tyrant and a megalomaniac, runs the day-to-day operations. He is never satisfied with almost anything anyone does. He is known for his bigotry and acts of anger. He chooses to berate employees in front of their peers and will stomp his feet (literally) until he gets what he wants. There has never been a functioning HR department during my time here. They are known to "sweep" things under the rug, especially if it involves complaints regarding harassment and discrimination. Recently there has been an uptick in the turn over rate across the organization. I have witnessed several people recently resign or get terminated. There was even a new employee who "left for lunch" on their third day and never returned.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

The work itself is interesting if you’re into EVs, and the product is genuinely impressive on paper. Decent pay on entry.

Cons

The “startup energy” pitch is completely false advertising. Nearly every person in a decision making role came from a legacy OEM think Mercedes, BMW, Audi and they brought every slow, bureaucratic, politically charged habit with them. The result is a company that moves at legacy speed while pretending it’s moving fast. The Bay Area location is almost cosmetic. The actual workforce is heavily visa dependent, which creates real cultural fragmentation people aren’t here because they believe in the mission, they’re here because their visa is tied to the job. That affects collaboration, communication, and cohesion in ways that are hard to ignore day to day. Management is a revolving door. People move roles constantly musical chairs is the right metaphor. Nobody owns anything long enough to be accountable for it. Projects stall, priorities shift, and institutional knowledge evaporates. Budget priorities are baffling. Money gets burned on things that don’t matter while the actual important infrastructure, tooling, or resources get underfunded or ignored entirely. Work life balance exists in theory but the dysfunction means you’re constantly compensating for organizational chaos.

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