Zombie Startup and Total Nightmare... - Anonymous employee Lumiata Employee Review

I can barely decide where to begin. Working here is like being in an active warzone with PTSD. Management treats their employees like expendable garbage despite herculean efforts to get anything accomplished in the disorganized, unprofessional, chaos their sheer incompetence has created. There are 4 general groups of employees at Lumiata: Slave Driver Management, Brogrammers/Cowboys, Elitist Academic Failout Space Cadets, and a Rag Tag Crew of Hanger-Ons. They basically sat around for several years hacking worthless garbage together and drinking wine until the VC money started running out. Then it became disaster mode, death march projects, and who they could blame and knife in the back instead of taking personal responsibility for their failures. They routinely force out people who they simply don’t like or are unwilling to sacrifice their health or sanity under the unconscionable strain of their collective ineptitude. Objective Points of Failure: -Run their own data center which is a ridiculously, expensive money pit and productivity sink and hacked together poorly. Massive strategic blunder. -“Architecture” is every faddish, half-baked, new thing regardless of the actual use case/operating requirements or time available to execute. No common sense exhibited at all. -The codebase is complete cowboy coded garbage-no patterns, documentation, unit testing, or any other testing. “If it runs on my laptop, it should run OK in production” attitude. -After several years, not even a coherent or stable product so just many poorly executed one off “projects” and blaming the clients. -Outright bullying and harassment are frequent/documented and there are few professional boundaries observed.