A very bad experience - Project Manager UL Solutions Employee Review

1.0
Jun 5, 2024
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

There are some genuine great people that work at UL Solutions which makes leaving this bad review tough. Unfortunately they are not given the time or opportunity to thrive due to management tribalism.

Cons

Buying companies with no strategy and have no idea what to do with them. Disinterested management team that don't seem to care about the products or clients. There seems to be no drive to improve. Epitomised by their outdated software solutions. Happy to sell incomplete products that don't work. A "Ship it how it is, get the client to pay for the development and sell it back to them" mindset. Stuck in a 00's mindset. Including the internal and external processes. Toxic work environment. Gaslighting is rife. Managers that don't know what they're doing and are out of their depth with little to no true skills in their supposed area of expertise. Therefore there is no guidance when the going gets tough. They are order givers, not leaders. Expected to work outrageous hours due to lack of any cohesive process. You'll be made to feel like you're crazy for challenging the status quo. Dare question people and you will be made an example of. People happy to collect their pay checks, don't care about service or delivery. Don't even think about highlighting issues, they don't want to know, this would mean they'd have to do something. Great company if you like anxiety.

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UL Solutions Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We genuinely value input from our employees and take your concerns seriously. As a company with over 130 years of history dedicated to creating a safer world through science, we are constantly striving to improve and evolve. We aim to integrate new companies strategically to enhance our services and are always working to improve our integration process. We are investing in upgrades to meet modernize our capabilities and environments. We're committed to offering work-life balance and this shows in our benefits offerings, including two paid days of volunteer time off to use for what is meaningful for you.

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Cons

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- Mission - Work life balance - Pay - Modernization of the workplace

Cons

- Every year benefits are reduced with terrible and tone deaf justifications. - Added benefits tend only to benefit new employees. - Perception that the company does not value long term employees (suspension of defined benefit program) - Poor ESPP discount - Lack of transparency on how AEIP bonus is calculated - Workflow tools are still extremely cumbersome after years of promises to fix them - Lack of enforcement of hybrid work policy. Many people never come in and are never spoken to about it.

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