Does Lightning AI pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Lightning AI employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.4 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Lightning AI. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Lightning AI?

80% of Lightning AI employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Lightning AI 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.1 for culture and values and 4.5 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Lightning AI?

Software Engineer (5) , Research Engineer (4) , Senior Software Engineer (3) , Machine Learning Engineer (2) , Product Manager (2)

What are the pros of working at Lightning AI according to real employee reviews?

"Talented Team: Surrounded by brilliant and passionate people who are always willing to share their knowledge and collaborate." ((in 8 reviews)); "Strong customer centric culture" ((in 4 reviews)); "The work itself is challenging and great for people who enjoy hard work and moving fast." ((in 4 reviews)); "Great benefits and PTO policy" ((in 3 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Lightning AI according to real employee reviews?

"Some growing pains as the company scales, but leadership is proactive in addressing challenges." ((in 5 reviews)); "You will be dealing with lots of egos, especially the CEO" ((in 3 reviews))

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Lightning AI Reviews

4.4

80% would recommend to a friend

(44 total reviews)

William Falcon

80% approve of CEO

85% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.5

Career opportunities

4.4

Compensation and benefits

4.1

Culture and values

4.1

Diversity and inclusion

3.9

Senior management

3.8

Work/Life balance

Lightning AI has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 44 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Lightning AI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

Reviews by job title

44 reviews

5.0

3 Nov 2025

Exciting place to build the future of AI

Chief product officer (cpo)

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

The team is smart, collaborative, and deeply invested in design and AI-first thinking. The platform, built for PyTorch workloads with multi-cloud support, is genuinely unique. Fast-paced, challenging, and rewarding if you love shaping the future of AI. - Clear mission and strong product focus - Talented, diverse, collaborative team - Cutting-edge AI platform with multi-cloud support (neoclouds and hyperscalers) - Emphasis on thoughtful design and developer experience - Exec team likes to promote from within so an excellent place to grow your career - Work hard, play hard; truly a fun place to work if you are passionate about the mission

Cons

- Fast-paced environment typical of a scaling startup - Some internal processes are still evolving

5.0

25 Sept 2025

Dynamic environment with great opportunities to learn and grow

Research engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

- always something different happening that you can get involved with to learn new skills and expand in to new areas - very approachable and knowledgable team - strong ownership culture, so you get to be heavily involved in product decisions and can carry things from zero to one - great benefits (e.g. very supportive of parental leave)

Cons

Being a startup the potential upside is huge but needs hard work to pull off. So that can involve long hours and require a high level of dedication.

5.0

20 Sept 2025

Fast paced environment with great engineers

Research engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Great environment for experienced engineers. Very fast paced startup. Engineers here have great opportunities for taking on product ownership and work on a wide variety of things. Coworkers are really talented, humble and nice engineers.

Cons

Nothing really, sometimes a little bit chaotic but nothing out of the ordinary.

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