Lightspeed reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(1,078 total reviews)
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Dax Dasilva

77% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Lightspeed has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,078 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lightspeed employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Nov 29, 2025

Varies wildly by who your manager is

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some managers are really great and care about you and your future. Some perks were pretty good, like Friday beers.

Cons

You might get a manager who refuses to communicate any feedback to you, then tries to get you fired! You might also get a manager who was previously a colleague and has no idea how to actually manage people! Management might arbitrarily to move you off the software you have been working for for 7+ years locally to a team across the ocean that you don't know well at all!

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Lightspeed Response
5mo
Hi there, thanks for sharing your feedback, we especially appreciate hearing from someone with such long tenure at the business. It’s good to hear that you experienced supportive managers and enjoyed the workplace perks. We also acknowledge your feedback around management and communication. This is an area we continue to focus on, including investing in stronger leadership training and development to improve the employee experience. Thank you for sharing your perspective, and we wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
2.0
Nov 7, 2025

Not what it used to be....

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people, great office, great atmosphere

Cons

The company has been cutting their sales people's pay for over 18 months now (yes, every time your quota goes up, this is effectively a pay cut). Unreasonable quota increases (40% increase in 60 days), quotas that change every single month for the past 24 months, expectations that increase out of nowhere and with no good reason (in the past a 30% close rate was considered incredible - all of a sudden one day they decided 41% was the new norm without any actual reasoning). This company has gone against every core value they currently preach, which were the exact core values that made them the best place to work 4-6 years ago. It is a completely different company, in a negative way. Barely recognizable.

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Lightspeed Response
5mo
Hi, thanks for taking the time to leave a review and for sharing your honest perspective. It’s great to hear that you value the people, office, and atmosphere at Lightspeed. However, the concerns you’ve raised are not the experience we want for our people. We take feedback like this seriously, and we encourage you to share any further details confidentially via our People team at people@lightspeedhq.com or with your People Business Partner. Thank you for taking the time to provide such detailed feedback.
2.0
Aug 8, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Some good co-workers Yearly bonus (but this is basically backpay for unpaid overtime in this salaried position)

Cons

They tout their unlimited PTO. But taking a week off equates to a month of catch up because your back up is too busy to do your work on top of their own. Corporate strategy is Quantity over Quality. Overload the PM with an insane workload thar incentivizes low quality work to push customers live so you can move on to the next one. Nonexistent onboarding process so it is sink or swim. Inefficient implementation process that is unfair to both customers and internal resources. Ownership of customers for a longer period of time AFTER implementation than actively working on their implementation Tech company that still relies on tedious manual data validation process for hundreds of thousands lines of data.

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Lightspeed Response
10mo
Hi there, thank you for taking the time to share your review and for the contributions you made during your time at Lightspeed. It’s good to hear that you had some great co-workers. We also appreciate your detailed feedback regarding the implementation process and workload, as this is really helpful as we work to continuously improve. We wish you all the best with your future endeavors.
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