Lucid Motors

Lucid used to be a great place to work; the reviews on here show that.

There used to be passion, joy, and a sense of community. Hard work was valued, and you felt that you were contributing to an overall “realistic” goal.

Unfortunately, the last year has completely crippled the company.

Hubris (/ˈhjuːbrɪs/, from ancient Greek ὕβρις) describes a personality quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous overconfidence, often in combination with or synonymous with arrogance.

The ultimate downfall of Lucid rests solely on the shoulders of its leadership. They exhibit all the negative character traits of Elon with none of the showmanship. The attitude that “we only have to be slightly better than the Model S” was prevalent throughout the company.

The main leadership is mostly mechanical; they have never valued the software side, and with that, all the talent was allowed to walk out the door. Directors would argue that designs were fine even when they were failing in testing at alarming rates. Teams passed off shoddy work, hoping that they could re-do it in “alpha continuation” or beta.

How a company conducts business when money is tight shows far more than when the coffers are full. Over the past year, there has been no effort to boost morale, to retain the best engineers, or to make this place like it once was. The attitude from HR has been that if we can’t solve all the problems, why even attempt to solve any.

At one point, we were the company that everyone thought would make it, but now the office is the most depressing it has ever been. It’s empty; entire teams have disappeared, and being spread across four different offices makes it feel like there are 10-20 people left that show up to work.

Don’t worry, guys. Six to eight weeks!

Get a CEO, get a VP of software. In the 2.5 years I have been here, there has been a complete absence of leadership. You can’t have your CTO verbally berating engineers in the office; it is wildly unprofessional. He may be a brilliant engineer, but he acts like a spoiled brat around the office. Do everything you can to keep what little talent is left. Fire underperformers, even if they are company officers, particularly HR.