DO NOT RECOMMEND, but depends what you want - Anonymous employee Luminii Employee Review

(I worked in Luminii's primary office in Niles, IL as an electrical engineer for 1 year. I left Luminii towards the end of 2019, so my review *might* be outdated.) Luminii is a privately owned lighting company. In my impression, the founder/owner of this company doesn't have passion, or doesn't even care at all what he's making. His mindset is all about saving cost and still present *decent* products he can charge customers with. As long as the cashflow looks good and he's making money, he couldn't care less. Company has double digit growth annually, but as an employee you don't get to share ANY of the growth. It depends what you want from your job/ career. If you want a boring job where you can show up everyday for 8hrs; don't know the meaning of your work; don't care that much about growing professionally or learning new knowledge, then Luminii is probably for you. Outside sales people are happy working here, but I can't say I know other coworkers I talked to who told they LOVE working here. I sincerely do not recommend anyone who has/is seeking a technical career to consider employment at Luminii. I worked in the engineering group. First, I want to say I understand for small private companies, everyone serves sales department to bring in revenue. The engineering group is supporting sales heavily, which is understandable. But the engineering group does not get any credit or even basic respect. The owner is on the sales side and helps pressuring the engineering group even harder. Credits all go to sales and blames are all on the engineering group. Plus, the owner doesn't have a respect for engineering knowledge therefore not going to care about your opinion. He clearly thinks he knows everything because he started the company and was here day 1. In my humble opinion, this is a small company, but the bureaucracy here is worse than some large corporate. It's very hard to reach management. You get the feeling that your opinion is not welcomed and surely not going to be taken. If you want to know about bureaucracy, go look at people who work here. How many people do you see with *executive* title? And how many people work here in total? Anyway, Luminii may thrive as a company. But as an employee who doesn't own any of the company, I recommend you to reconsider.