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      Lightning Bolt Solutions Reviews

      3.1

      39% would recommend to a friend

      (25 total reviews)
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      Guillaume Castel

      24% approve of CEO

      44% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.1

      Compensation and benefits

      2.9

      Culture and values

      2.7

      Senior management

      2.7

      Career opportunities

      2.1

      Diversity and inclusion

      Lightning Bolt Solutions has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 25 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lightning Bolt Solutions employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      25 reviews
      5.0
      28 Feb 2018

      Great company, awesome staff!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Lightning Bolt is a dynamic and quality industry leader that has been recognized as first in automated physician scheduling for two consecutive years. Staff and consumers alike are both loyal and enthusiastic about the product. The environment was positive and lead to a lot of growth for me professionally. Salaries are competitive and I was promoted several times during my employment at LB. Management provides training and support to ensure employee and company growth while investing in each individual's career path. Confidence is now at an all time high now that new leadership is in place.

      Cons

      With growth there has been some changes in leadership. I see this as a plus however and the company predicts growth in their overall team.

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      Lightning Bolt Solutions Response
      8y
      Thank you for your feedback, we are glad you enjoyed your tenure with Lightning Bolt.
      2.0
      27 Nov 2021

      Just ok....

      Technical consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      WFH Good Benefits Good Pay (depends on your location, CA staff gets paid a lot more).

      Cons

      Where do I start.... LB was based in SF pre-covid and was acquired by PerfectServe. Since then, this role has become ALOT more corporate. KPIs, tracking your activity, timesheets, tyrant managers and firing at will. A lot of the reviews here are biased because LB tells their employees to post reviews on there. You will age here rapidly, the software gives you aneurisms. Career growth is limited. All employees here on not happy and for reason. They through you to the dogs and fire you if you fail. I have seen them fire more friends because they received an unreasonable work load. Talent has depreciated since acquisition. Upper management consists of members from the parent company who do not understand the role or the software. Unless you are desperate for work do not come here.

      4.0
      13 Feb 2018

      Newer management --> hopeful growth

      Applications consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Prefacing this review with: It seems like a lot of these reviews are either 1* or 5*. Let's be realistic everyone, Lightning Bolt is not the best of the best and cannot compete with other 5* places like Google. But it is also a cool place to learn & work and by no means is a 1* company. Attempting to be as unbiased as possible, as a lot of these reviews are either mad ex-employees OR current employees whose job is to make LB look enticing (you can tell who these two groups are if you've worked here...) -Bright coworkers. Warm, friendly environment. Very easy to get along with (most of) your coworkers. -Work from home Tuesdays & Thursdays -Flexible WFH, if wanting to take "half-breaks" maybe working from your hometown, etc. -Snacks available in the office (chips, drinks, fruit, etc. Small lunch items available to make an OK lunch. Catered lunches about 1-2 times per month. -Software idea is cool and is probably the best for the specific/niche market that LB is in -Old management is being cycled out. For good or for worse, that's up to the individual. Personally, I think new management will be much better for growth in the long term -Promotions/raises are looking quite good recently (past 6 months) as a point to combat other people's reviews saying low raises/promotions. BUT maybe this is only due to the employee turnover all at once -Extremely easy to give feedback to seniors/leads/management and you will almost always get immediate changes if it's truly a good change -Opportunities to work on side projects of interest: client facing, internal facing, sales, etc.

      Cons

      -TOTAL compensation is alright. Kinda low for the Bay Area in a tech-focused skill role. Salary is comparable, but no bonuses/equity (almost worthless) -Consultant work is very, very support focused. Technical aspect >>>>> Support aspect in terms of intelligence, but you spend time doing about 35/65 (possible pro, if you really enjoy client success focused work) -Work, in my opinion, doesn't feel rewarding. Seems like your job is to literally just prevent fires (make sure clients don't cancel/keep them happy) -Growth paths can be kind of arbitrary depending on what the company needs, unclear if a position for what you want will be available AND THIS ONE. -The software...Conceptually, it's a great idea but the execution of the UI & back end codebase is SO poor. -I'm pretty sure the UI won't be even half updated until 2019-2020, at which time half of those features will probably be defunct. What is the UI/UX guy actually working on? Everyone's unsure -85% of your job as a Consultant ends up having to help clients because 1) UI is so god awful that it's too confusing for clients to do work on their own or 2) bugs, bugs, bugs everywhere-- which have an insane life cycle before they get fixed. Causes unintended, confusing results that you spend hours troubleshooting, only to realize it was a bug

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      Lightning Bolt Solutions Response
      8y
      Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. Lightning Bolt strives for our company culture to foster positivity, mindfulness and employee growth. I'd like to speak with you directly to better understand your perspective and experience. Please feel to reach out to me kim@lightning-bolt.com .
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