Pros
- Incredibly smart, inspired people work here - Values-driven culture - The benefits that Lucid provided are industry-leading options - Lucid mgmt focuses more on action than they do on what they say and advertise or market to employees - there's actual follow through - Tons of awesome ways to invest in my personal development, from internal courses and workshops to support from my direct manager. - Hybrid work policy so I can work from my home office or in the office whenever I want. 30+ states that I can relocate to if I wanted to.
Cons
The financial planning / budget process feels highly inefficient. The FP&A team makes us go through this entire process (with zero to little clear communication) where we need to fight for our budget. Then when we go to spend the money later that year, that was approved, we're often told we can't spend it... It's the most annoying part of my job. I think all of this stems from an abysmal procurement process, but someone was hired to help out with this. Unfortunately it sounds like their plan is to cut licenses to our procurement/payment vendor, which honestly is going to make things way worse. We'll see how it goes, I guess.