UL Solutions reviews

3.6

56% would recommend to a friend

(1,930 total reviews)
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Jennifer Scanlon

56% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

UL Solutions has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,930 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The UL Solutions employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Administración y consultoría industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jan 13, 2022
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Pros

Large company with “seemingly” many opportunities.

Cons

New CEO is terrible. Everything is all about her way, constantly mentioning giving best in class returns to shareholders - as a private company. Has ruined 130 years of history in a short amount of time and she used to be a CEO of a drywall company. Pay was just reduced for all staff that are revenue generating and they make it seem like a good thing.

1.0
Nov 7, 2021

UL Has Gone WOKE

Recommend
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Pros

Modern Technology Stack Flexible Work Hours

Cons

1. CEO Jenny Scanlon was hired about 2 years ago. She is an extreme leftist who is busy transforming UL from a once conservative company to a far left company. She regularly sends out email corporate wide praising the LGBT people and others such as, Barrack Obama, Pete Buttigeig. 2. CRT has been adopted at UL. If you are white according to UL you didn't earn your success in life but it was given to you by other white people. This couldn't be any more racist. 3. The CEO is transforming the company into a WOKE out and proud LGBTQ+ work force by hiring young people who are WOKE and putting them in leadership roles even though they have no experience. The heavy lifting at UL is done by contractors. The customers suffer due to the excessive cost of companies UL contracts with. 4. If you have no problem working across from a man dressed like a woman who has a 5 o'clock shadow, lipstick and skirt or if you are white and don't mind the lack of opportunity for promotion because that's going to the young and non-white employees then this is the place for you. Otherwise you should consider another company.

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UL Solutions Response
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At UL, our focus on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is intended to empower our employees to bring their full and complete selves to work. We are proud to have people from various backgrounds and generations and who identify differently within our organization. As a global safety science leader, we are committed to our mission to create a safer world – and this includes psychological safety. As a result, we do not tolerate racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or any other form of discrimination within our workplace. We have recently progressed our DEI journey through our 5-year commitments and have become much more intentional in our actions to advance equity. We have emphasized the importance of hiring for talent, skills and abilities first while ensuring our organization represents the communities where we serve and operate. Part of this journey requires many of us to manage our own biases and discomfort. We invite any UL employees who are struggling with this to participate in our DEI education series through UL University, engage with us directly in a sincere dialogue and/or reach out to your HR business advisor.
1.0
Sep 20, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Receiving a paycheck without working hard (if you can morally bring yourself to do that) because leadership is so inept at setting and tracking KPIs they would never be able to tell what the outcome of your work was.

Cons

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.

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