UL Solutions reviews

3.6

56% would recommend to a friend

(1,935 total reviews)
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Jennifer Scanlon

57% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

UL Solutions has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,935 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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3.0
Apr 5, 2013

Lab Tech

Recommend
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Pros

The mission is safety. comfortable environment, flexible hours, good people. god place to start a career

Cons

Very bureaucratic and political. rarely any room for career growth. mediocre but not terrible pay. Red tape and redundancies part of everyday work.

2.0
Apr 2, 2013

OLD company

Recommend
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Pros

Used to be good work-life balance but its slowly dying. If you dont want to work hard, you can hide easily. Playing the game pays off

Cons

Some of the pros are obviously cons Movement up is based on who didnt get promoted last time Low pay and inability to recognize talent and hard workers; or at least reward them

3.0
Mar 25, 2013

OK place to start out career

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Decent starting salary (slightly below industry standards, though) - Flexibility. Flex schedule and ability to work from home. Great work life/balance. - Strong company culture and values. - Friendly coworkers.

Cons

- Constantly changing. Seems like every couple of months there's a new initiative or a re-oganization (sometimes with layoffs). Changes not communicated well and everything is hush-hush until one day you come in and find out you have a brand new boss and completely new process for doing your work. - As a new employee, due to all the constant changes, it is hard to define yourself and stand-out. You might impress one manager, and then tomorrow you have a brand new reporting structure. - No raises. Company has been trying to expand through mergers and acquisitions, so they end up spending all their money on new companies that don't fit their business model. All this means that they have gone a couple years without giving any raises.. - No defined path to career development. Promotions are given on a subjective basis. Even as you develop in your job, managers are very unreceptive to telling you what you need to get promotions. Seems like a company policy as whole is to stay secretive about promotion requirements. This leads to a situation where people doing the same job with very dissimilar titles. - Managers, at least my particular office, are all a cookie cutter mold of each other. Lack of diversity in the manager ranks (very very few women or minorities). Though average work force is fairly diverse (hard not to be when you are an engineering company), management does not reflect the diversity of the employees. - Must look for opportunities yourself. Their are plenty of classes and growth opportunities, but again, all this is kept hush-hush. Your manager will never find growth opportunities for you, you have to find them yourselves. - A lot of "dead weight," especially in a hold overs from the monopoly days. Many of the older employees don't really do anything (but get paid a lot for it).

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