software engineer

technical specialist

engineer

supply manager

senior engineer

Lucid Motors

A typical day at work? Depending on your department, there are people eagerly awaiting the opportunity to write you up if you're not at your work station Immediately at the beginning of the your shift. No joke, 10 seconds late to your station could have you written up, even though the company's own rules state that you have up to 7 minutes to clock in before being counted as late. I was personally never written up, but I saw it quite often in other departments. The rest of your work day, expect specific processes or procedures about your day to day work, to change from one week to the next. You'd think that this would lead to an eventual perfectly resolved process eventually, but it won't. Someone always feels the need to alter the process, or even revert back to what wasn't working before, ultimately just to change that process again later on.

What I learned? This company has the potential to pay you very well. But you'll be working at nearly every hour that a human being can possibly be awake. This company will overwork everyone without a second guess. A typical work week was AT MINIUMUM Mon.-Fri. 10 hour days, with a high likelihood of working Saturday.. And occasionally even working Sunday as well. A common work week would range from 60-70 hours. However eventually the company will fall so far behind they they switch to an expectation of 12 hour days for 6 days a week, and even in some cases 7 days a week. At one point the General Assembly team Manager explained to their employees, that if they wanted to have a single day off, that they were encouraged to use 1 day  (but ONLY ONE day) of their vacation time, after having worked week after week without a single day off. 
What I also learned about this company is that they are young and collectively inexperienced in the automobile manufacturing industry. Opposed to observing and changing to what other leading automobile manufacturers have been doing correctly for decades, Lucid would rather stumble every misstep along the way. And rather than acknowledging these missteps and adjusting correctly, they continue to stumble instead. This leads to a significantly slow production, requiring the employees needing to work endless hours. This massive amount of overtime hours is  ultimately what led to a ton of employees being laid off.

Management? There's too many people in high spots, all trying to make calls which suit their own agenda. Many times these specifics are not communicated well enough between different departments. Having a new supervisor every few months was a regular occurrence. Management not making the necessary corrections to improve the entire company, led to roughly 18% of the entire company losing their jobs during a company wide mass layoff. 

Workplace culture? A lot of people seemed really burnt out at work. Tensions become high, people are clearly exhausted and stressed out.

Hardest part of the job? The unknown schedule. All you can expect is to assume that you're always going to be working. Maybe then you'll be surprised by a day off.

The most enjoyable part of the job? The pay of course. 

My experience at Lucid Motors had some positives in terms of working with talented technicians and exposure to advanced EV technology, but there were several structural and cultural challenges that made the environment difficult.

One ongoing issue was the expectation around “optional” overtime. While technically voluntary, there was significant pressure to participate in extended work hours to meet aggressive timelines that often felt unrealistic. This created a work environment where work-life balance was difficult to maintain.

There also appeared to be favoritism in certain areas, particularly around opportunities, assignments, and recognition. This sometimes made it challenging for employees who were performing well to see meaningful advancement or have their feedback acted upon.

Management often emphasized hitting ambitious targets, but it was difficult to move the needle when raising process improvements or operational concerns. Decisions sometimes seemed driven more by short-term optics rather than long-term sustainability.

Layoffs also occurred periodically, which contributed to uncertainty within teams and created a sense that staffing levels were being adjusted to maintain the status quo rather than addressing deeper organizational issues.

Additionally, some employees expressed concerns about workplace culture, including instances where complaints about conduct or safety issues did not always appear to receive transparent follow-up. Combined with high pressure to meet deadlines, this sometimes led to a stressful and tense work environment.

Advice to Management:
Focus on improving transparency, addressing employee concerns more openly, and aligning timelines with realistic engineering and production constraints. Supporting technicians and engineers with consistent leadership and accountability would help improve morale and productivity.

Pros:

Exposure to cutting-edge EV technology

Skilled coworkers and technicians

Fast-paced environment with learning opportunities

Cons:

Pressure around “optional” overtime

Perceived favoritism

High stress due to aggressive timelines

Organizational uncertainty due to layoffs

Working at Lucid Motors was one of the most frustrating professional experiences I’ve had, despite being an extremely productive employee with a very strong close rate and consistently strong customer feedback.

The company talks heavily about luxury experience and innovation, but internally there was constant operational instability, poor communication, and shifting compensation structures that made it extremely difficult for employees to succeed long term.

During my time there:
• Base pay was reduced from roughly $35/hour to around $23/hour
• Commission structures were significantly reduced (in some cases close to 50%)
• Multiple stop-sales impacted both new and pre-owned inventory
• Delivery and operational issues routinely hurt customer trust and employee compensation

What made it worse was the inconsistency in leadership standards. Some employees appeared to receive flexibility, grace, and support during difficult situations, while others did not receive the same level of consideration. Personally, I experienced treatment that raised serious concerns regarding fairness and inclusion in the workplace.

I was also deeply disappointed in how personal hardship and family loss situations were handled. In an environment already dealing with high pressure, leadership often felt detached from the realities employees were facing.

There are talented people working hard at Lucid, and the vehicles themselves are genuinely impressive. However, compensation instability, operational dysfunction, inconsistent management practices, and poor employee support created an environment that became increasingly difficult to trust.

I hope leadership eventually prioritizes operational consistency, employee retention, transparency, and accountability — because the product deserves better than the culture surrounding it.

Depending where you’re at, your schedule is constantly changing. If you work the line expect to have a shifting schedule on a by weekly basis. As a repair tech you’re almost guaranteed to work 6 days a week, 12 hours a day with little to no support as everyone else has gone home for the day while a car is stuck in your bay waiting for review to move on in the process. You’re constantly wasting time because diagrams and schematics aren’t kept up to date as engineering hasn’t fully developed them or bothers updating them. No point anyways because they never inform you on changes until you’re forced to stop for a few hours to get help and updates. Management is hostile and irresponsible, I’ve seen every manager get in screaming matches with employees(who certainly over-perform) and make threats to their career that carry out over petty remarks and ultimately disrespect the hard work they’ve put in. They spend twice of what the cars worth to build them and blame the workers, even though the workers are the ones who notice them and call them out but never stop to assess because they’re constantly on a push to get the car out, the feedback loop is absolutely nonexistent and your voice is nothing to them unless you’re making 150k+ a year. They constantly over promise and under deliver basically forcing the company to burn an egregious amount of money and do not attempt to define the proper delegation of help needed, making it a horrible condition for workers there as they never get the help that they actually need. I couldn’t even get the proper tools ordered to do my job, yet they’re constantly in our face about delivering cars. Being prior military, I’d rather go to boot camp again and deal with that than ever return to such a toxic environment. 

If you want to earn a lot of money on your paychecks this is the place to work. Trust me I make so much money due to working mandatory overtime it’s insane. If you have a family say goodbye to them because the way you work 6 or 7 days a week 12 hour shifts and the time you have to go in and get out you may not be able to see them anymore.  If you have medical conditions and need to see the doctor you only get 40 hours a year in sick time you can use BUT I was told you need to get it APPROVED before you can just take the day off plus HR told me they don’t accept medical notes for the days off. So you rack up points even if you are ill and can’t go in to work. Supervisors move around a lot so you don’t know who you are really reporting to, upper management has meetings 5 minutes prior to leaving and adding 30 minutes to your time when leaving, also they degrade you by saying things like ” I have a built resume I can go anywhere I want for a job, you people need this job and the money and cannot get another good paying job like this.” So you better have tough skin or end up crying like some people here. No real job training I learned by getting a binder and going into the field picking up knowledge on my own and by co workers learning too. So really think before you leap. 

The only good thing about this place is the pay, but compared to what the bosses and upper management are making and how much they’re selling the vehicles for and the things we have to put up with, it can be better. There are only a few good supervisors around here and even if they are, they can do very little to help a situation. Hr is not good, they aren’t here for us workers, they are here for the company and that’s it. They are unprofessional in the way that everything changes everyday, lucids motto is supposed to be about safety and our work life balance but that’s bs, their motto is “everything is subject to change” and if it does change they won’t give you very much of a notice. They can move you around as much as they like bc we are just pawns and bodies to them. They don’t care about our well being they just care that their cars are being made. They say that there are opportunities to grow but there aren’t unless you beg and beg and beg and even then there still aren’t. We just want to be heard and for someone to work with us and what will work better for us so we can actually be productive to this company but they don’t care and don’t listen 

Lucid has the opportunity to be a great company to work for; I believe the buddy system here is where workers will lose confidence in the company. Hire the people that work hard, not your friends. Of course being a young company that's trying to get off the ground will have some issues and people in positions they normally wouldn't be qualified for, which brings me to the pay. The managers here are hit and miss, either you have a great one or a poor one. And the balance of compensation is bad. I do believe the managers are over paid, undertrained and lack emotional intelligence along with accountability. Power is normally a issue when given to men, that's nothing new. But power given to the wrong men here is a huge problem. Inclusion is poor, but there is a great migration of different ethnicities here. Doesn't show in management though. Inclusive leaders demonstrate courage in two ways: Cognizance of bias and cultural intelligence. I still believe this company will be great, with any company time will fix things!!

What is the best part of working at the company?
The learning experience especially being my first time working with new innovations technology in the electric vehicle field. And loads of great staff members on every shift including the cdl operators and higher ups. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Learning new things are both stressful and informatively helpful at the same time. It’s more family orientated so it doesn’t feel like you’re working. More like at a family reunion and learning of everyone’s different trades and experiences they lend to the company. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
As I mentioned beforehand, great work environment. Excellent benefits, capital gains growth opportunities and growth potential always within for anyone looking to explore their options. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Getting work orders built or fulfilling the obligations of knowing you’ve accomplished multiple builds per shift.

Working at Lucid is a mixed experience. A typical day involves routine tasks with little variation, and despite the exciting nature of the industry, the work can feel monotonous due to a lack of challenging assignments. I’ve learned that tenure is valued more than skill and performance, which can be frustrating for those who are eager to grow. Management tends to be overly lenient, allowing underperforming employees to continue without repercussions, which affects overall team morale and productivity. The workplace culture is stagnant, with minimal opportunities for internal movement or promotions. The hardest part of the job is dealing with the lack of recognition and advancement, especially when you know your capabilities aren’t being fully utilized. However, the most enjoyable part of the job is the chance to work on innovative projects in the electric vehicle space, although this is often overshadowed by the negatives. Overall, I wouldn’t recommend working here if you’re looking for growth or a dynamic work environment.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Lucid is an exciting, cutting edge EV company and opportunity to switch to some renewable energy sources along with an exceptional outlook to make a global change in the industry. Lucid has a very  creative culture with lots of growth personally and professionally and a very positive new learning experience. Highly recommend. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
New company, startup, new processes, procedures, but this can actually be very fun, challenging, learning, and rewarding all at the same time. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Creative, spark, exciting, energy, collaborative, trial & error & learning opportunities, growth, not boring. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Everyday seems a little different in a positive way constantly challenging, evolving, moving, growing, learning.

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