Abandon faith, ye who enter - Consultant Lodestone Employee Review

1.0
Jan 19, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Competitive compensation and fancy titles are easily achieved. Tons of overload work to make a name for yourself.

Cons

COO has been poisoning the company since the board fired the founding CEO. Breaking groups into silos who don't talk, and can't make any decisions without his approval. Took the board 6 months to replace the founding CEO in 2020 at the onset of COVID when they fired him without warning, replacement, or transition plan. These 6 months destroyed the company. This same board is made up of 100% Beazley, who Lodestone is a subsidiary of, and leads to the company operating like an insurance org, not a technology one. The replacement CEO has ignored all cries for help from employees, and promoted the COO, empowering him to tear apart the company. Anyone not falling in line with the COO's old boys club, is ostracized and setup for dismissal. As a result numerous people have left the company, and none of the original leadership is still there, outside of the COO. As people have left, their workloads have just been pushed onto others, with expectations for them to still deliver on their current workload. As people have left, they've been threatened with the non-compete agreement we signed upon hiring (I was one of them), with demands like a 90 day exit plan. Others should know that 1. The RCA is too broad to be enforceable in court, and 2. You don't need to reveal your future employer when you give notice.

Explore other reviews about Lodestone

5.0
May 20, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Team members and the leadership

Cons

I haven't experienced any cons

3.0
Jun 17, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- The 401k company match is rather good, I am not sure about other benefits, such as medical, as I didn't use them. - Lots of experienced people who love to assist and teach you through things. Overall the Incident Response team is full of good people. - Growing business that isn't very stuffy. - Lots of opportunity to grow your skill set and hands on work. - Managers and team members all wanting to make Lodestone better

Cons

- People are pretty overworked, it felt as though to meet utilization goals you had to work every evening and weekend. Not a great work-life balance despite being a remote role. - Tools and Tech breaking down quite often causing slowdowns to projects. - No training for employees going on a few years. - The salary isn't the greatest compared to other organizations with same experience level. - Somewhat of a boy's club. Although I personally got along pretty decently with everyone, I personally saw women of same role have more tasks expected of them with less compensation or promotions and communication with those women not the most work appropriate.

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All