UL Solutions reviews

1) A Lot of Changes: So many changes in policy and practices over the years that much of the time UL comes full circle to the original process. 2) Promotions are difficult (at least in my experience): Not necessarily a con, but you must specifically develop an action plan with your supervisor during goal setting and specifically indicate that a promotion and subsequent salary increase (don't fall for the old "title change" trick) as a result of meeting or exceeding the goals. 3) Compensation: Payscale.com shows UL as paying 4% below market. If you've been at UL for a while, chances are your salary at your position is probably lower than what a new hire Engineer to UL in the same position would get (Glassdoor is great for updated salary info!). Now if the new hire is getting 4% below market, you can imagine what the long timer is getting. Its because the salary increase are either minisule or far between, but in order to be competitive in the market, the new hire is paid more. More consideration should be given to those who have endured the 'cons" mentioned for so long.

If you are old enough to remember and enjoyed working for a company in 1985, this company might be for you. Very dated, hierarchical company culture - ex. they actually assign parking spaces based on tenure and title. Highly political and bureaucratic environment. Very capable middle management and rank and file employees are given little autonomy and are not empowered to make decisions which means that nothing at this company moves fast. The IT systems are very dated and since they are all built in-house, you are at the mercy of the IT department anytime something breaks (which is frequently) and many times you are told that (despite the army of IT people we have working for us) IT doesn't have the bandwidth to fix things in a timely manner. A tolerance for low employee performance is wide-spread - no one ever seems to get let go. And those who put in the bare minimum are rewarded the same as those who are really driving results so there is no incentive to work hard. While the benefits are top notch, pay is below market. They have put a freeze on all merit increases for the last two years despite the fact that the company is profitable . UL has acquired almost 30 companies in the last few years but senior management doesn't seem to have any strategic plan to bring the entire business together or leverage these new businesses. We seem to be in the middle of an identity crisis.