UL Solutions reviews

Unfortunately within the company, there have been lots.. and lots of layoffs in the last year. (Not a secret, available knowledge online) Most are employees of 5-20+ years. UL solutions HR is able to "help" most staff to find other positions available within UL Solutions. Though, HR in my experience is fairly biased towards upper management, so it can be hard to still find an available position at UL if you were laid off. Unless HR took part in your lay off, then you have almost no chance of getting back in. If you are looking for a morally sound place, I personally would not recommend. Yes, UL does an amazing job helping to improve product safety, especially in the electrical and automotive fields, but in my opinion; one of their flaws is the complete lack of empathy towards those who are in lower management, base line employees, part-time and even interns. If they would spend more time focusing on the employees they currently have instead of hiring more and more executives from outside of the company, maybe they would have a better approval rating on this Glass Door site. Salaries could be better, though still good as far as base pay. Based on local (my local) positions with the same title, other places are making almost $10 more per hour than those at UL. -public knowledge on wage averages per job title.

I can not say strongly enough that you should avoid this company at all costs, no matter what the pay is listed as. Working here has nearly cost me my sanity, marriage, and any hope I held that working for a large company can provide a meaningful career. It's the perfect example of everything that is wrong in business today. Toxic culture: This place brings those who care and work hard to near suicide when they realize everything they've done means nothing to the company, won't be recognized, let alone recorded, and ultimately will be replaced in the next reorganization, which seems to happen near annually. Lack of Career Growth: They basically always hire from outside the organization and ignore the people who have done the work, especially for Director and Executive Level roles. Honestly, this place should be investigated. There's no way they are hiring this many inexperienced leaders from outside the organization at that level without something shady going on because that process certainly isn't bringing in any improvements. Not caring about customers: Honestly, if any clients are feeling like this company doesn't have the ability to support them, I can confirm they have no idea how to run a business. It's just an outdated, overcharged compliance requirement that buys up good businesses to increase revenue and then poisons them slowly through insanely poor decision-making and clueless micromanagement by people who obviously have no experience or aptitude for building and running a department. Not caring about employees: The annual employee survey at this company is best described by the meme of the fax machine immediately dropping incoming messages into the paper shredder. I don't know how many years we've filled out nearly the same recommendations only for the company to implement literally zero improvements. They will bring in an overpaid consultant every chance they get to tell you how to do your job without context. The final recommendations of the consultants are clearly based on the fact that they won't be there when it's proven not to work. This is another great example of something that should be investigated: overpaying unnecessary consulting firms instead of letting their employees do the jobs they were hired for. It can't possibly be a mistake that many times in a row; they literally hired the same company for a new reorganization that screwed it up the first time around. Sounds like someone's friend is getting a little action on the side at the customer's expense. I wonder what bad advice is going for on the black market these days. RUN, do not walk to the nearest emergency exit if anyone from this company invites you to work here. Future generations will thank you when this company goes down in the ball of fire that's been brewing for years.