software engineer

field service technician

maintenance assistant

demand planner

Luminator Technology Group

A typical day at work will very based on your manager. I was happy with a good manager but miserable and bullied when an inexperienced and toxic employee was promoted to manager. I was one of many that resigned or were let go because of being targeted and bullied. There was a mean girls type of click situation.  A typical day was very different between the two managers.  Respect, flexibility and freedom to do my job  with one.. no flexibility, micromanagement and often was berated on emails with many on cc until I would stop the back and forth and address it in person often having to  de-escalate the situation  and address it as the manager should. However my first manager was supportive when I needed to involve her in issues and gave me exceeds expectations on al reviews opposite of the reviews after she left.  

I learned many different proprietary software programs across our product line with little training. I learned  how detrimental a good/bad manager can be and was inspired to become a mentor/manager to make a positive difference in  my teams success and careers. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The people. Which most folks will say--but more specifically, my team. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Chaotic leadership. The "Leaders" there have no direction. The toxic ones stay, while the good leaders are pushed out or exited without any real reasons. VERY high turnover in all leadership spots. That, and HR is completely useless for the last year. Just a waste of time trying to go to them--in fact, some leaders have told us not to. Toxic all over. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Functionally Toxic Dysfunction. So many folks just accept the dysfunction and the toxicity as a norm. People, it is not normal. Leadership=Toxic and Vindictive. Finance=Toxic and Immature. IT=Inept. HR=Dysfunctional and Toxic. Training=Nonexistent. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Putting out fires. Everything is reactive---but don't you dare be strategic or proactive. You will make the legacy folks look bad. Then you'll end up being part of the quarterly layoffs.

I spent over a year at Luminator in the Plano facility.  The training from day-one was non-existent, I was shown the procedure once by a fellow assembly-line worker, and wasn't trained to clock-into my job task until three months after starting.
Shifts generally fall into two timeframes:  6AM-3:30PM or 5AM-2:30PM M-F (10hrs per day) with short-notice of mandatory overtime working Saturdays(not scheduled, you're "notified" with a piece of paper left on your work area, not even an email).  Additionally, you must clock-out for lunch for 30min each day, and clock-in when lunch break ends (don't forget!).
Management is accusatory, and the environment is run like an elementary school (complete with school-bells every 1:45hrs announcing breaks).
I do not recommend this place.

One day we ran out of work due to supplier issues. Management made us sweep and count screws for weeks. When the screws were counted, we counted them again. I was fired after taking a day off even though there was nothing to do but count screws. This happened shortly after a workplace accident that they failed to report and now the hospital wants me to pay the medical bills. Job pays poorly compared to similar positions. Theres no room for advancement. No raises. No holiday bonus. They shut down for 2 weeks during the holidays and you don't get paid unless you use your paid time off (if you still have any at the end of the year). I was back to work two days after having a child and they asked me why I didn't tell them I was going to miss more than one day of work.

What is the best part of working at the company?
They have a good group of people doing the work. Workforce is very dedicated.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
You are always in a rush without actually knowing what your deadlines may be.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Great environment among the workforce, however, management is not cohesive with workforce and this leads to tension.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Arrive early and leave late. Requires a lot of "extra" time to get the work done.

I started with a decent manager, but upper management sees such people as a threat, and they are forced out. Engineers went on customer visits and worked on technical details with the customer's engineers winning contracts. Replacement management enjoyed the trips and left the engineers home but did not impress the customers eventually losing them as customers. Company bookkeeping ran afoul of the IRS costing even former employees such as myself a penalty. Screwups with insurance reporting by the company after I had already left took nearly two years to fix with social security/Medicare.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The work hours that were 6-230

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The fact that management would NEVER hold anyone accountable for their actions 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Constant turmoil . Very high stressful work environment.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Get to work. Get yelled at. Spoken down to. Blamed for things . Talked about.

Very friendly workplace culture. I learned to work with embedded systems and got to experience SCRUM first-hand and enjoyed my time there overall. I also enjoyed the variety of software and hardware to deal with, felt like I got acquainted with so many concepts. Unfortunately as a summer intern, in-depth understanding wasn't typically realized since my priority was not development but was testing and bug reporting. I appreciated that on slow days, I was encouraged to learn concepts that could arise in future tasks.

The company is trying to expand in its industry by acquiring companies but does not always get the full picture of the new enterprises' capabilities when promoting their products as their own.  This often leads to over-promising on new contracts and failing to deliver or at least delivering not exactly what was thought to be available at the time of the offering.

Test production lights 

Learned how to read and comprehend test procedures and   engineering drawings

Moved up quick with management approval

Work on many teams as well as solo

Loved working with new technology and understanding how things are made from an engineering point of view

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