Line 6 Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Line 6 full-time

Pros – Visionary products; new leaders changing bad process and practices; passionate employees; fun atmosphere

Cons – Resource challenge; poor IT systems and tools for employees

Advice to Senior Management – Modernize the operation so your employees can be more efficient

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Line 6 full-time for more than a year

Pros – good discount
good ideas
innovative products
employee's are nice

Cons – poor pay
management doesn't seem to have it together
Poor internal communication
some of the employees don't seem to know what they're doing
manufacturing problems that never seem to be resolved

Advice to Senior Management – Stop taking everything you're suppliers give you. Raise your quality expectations and push that through to you're manufacturing instead of bringing it down on the people that are trying to fix what your manufacturers have screwed up.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Line 6 full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – There are still some good, hard-working, talented people there. Being involved in music is a plus. The company parties used to be a lot of fun. Salaries are competitive. Decent benefits. They still make some good entry-level gear.

Cons – Company re-organizations and new marketing management every 1-2 years. Very top-heavy company, way too many managers. Board of directors focus on revenue growth at the expense of quality, innovation, and customer service. Many of the original innovators that were responsible for their early successes have either left or have been driven out.

Advice to Senior Management – The recent problems are not due to the economic downturn. Low morale wasn't created by poor sales. The focus on growth at the expense of quality, innovation, and customer service isn't an inspiring or motivating message to employees. Start treating employees with respect, avoid passive aggression. Stop outsourcing so much engineering work to China. Add more people to your customer service team. Don't release products until they are truly complete. Ditch the top-heavy layer of senior management. Listen to the people who actually do the work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Line 6 full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Casual work environment
Work functions have alcohol onsite

Cons – Horrible management
HR Director has a problem with women
Heavily male dominated company

Advice to Senior Management – The whole HR Department needs to be cleaned out. Including the VP of Administration & HR. They've single-handedly restructured the company so many times that if the restructure didn't work the first three times then you have to look at the people doing the restructuring. You can hire the best engineers and sales people in the world but that will not save the company from failing because of politics and HR sticking their nose where it doesn't belong. How can HR be objective to policies when the VP of Administration is the Co-founders wife? Line 6 might be a large company but their problems are as if they're still a small company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Line 6 full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – So many great ideas floating around, and people who love what they do and want to put out amazing products.

Cons – Management is incredibly top-heavy and seems to not want to face reality on projects. They will push engineering and other departments to incredible degrees to get products out, more so than any other employer I've been with.

Advice to Senior Management – Figure out a new way to scope projects and hire some more help!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Line 6

Pros – Discount benifits on music gear.
No dress code.
After work jam sessions and quarterly company sponsored parties.
Location to San Fernando valley.

Cons – With the downfall of the economy, the company has lost sight of its vision and it is reflected in how the employees are treated.
With the lose of thier vision, the creativity and interaction amongst the teams has been stifled to a point that they are not motivated to produce anything inovative.
Company is way too management heavy at this point.

Advice to Senior Management – Trim the fat and remember what it was that made this such a magical company to work for in the past. Incourage the creativity of the teams. Look closer at the teams that have had the bigest turnover in employees over the last few years, good chance it was not the employees that left or were let go that are the problem, just may be a management problem because it is the only common factor. With that said, best of luck to you guys and I hope you can turn it around for those that are still there.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Line 6

Pros – Pay if ok, but not great. The music vibe still somewhat there. Sometimes a celebrity comes in, but they ususally don't stay around. Great products for young kids starting in music.

Cons – Crappy insurance and benefits. Very politicaly driven senior leadership, and constant turn-around in all departments. The cool employees that built the company have left the building. Depressing vibe throughout. The company's peak has come and gone as most guitarist now slam Line 6 products.

Advice to Senior Management – Do as your past CFO did and move on (it's public info on LinkedIn). IMO Line 6 doesn't have the value that it did years ago. The IP is old news and no longer worth acquisition.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Line 6

Pros – Great work environment, lots of talented and creative people there; the senior management "bad apples" people were complaining about before have gone now; remaining senior management is strong and listens. Company has a family-run feel at times.

Cons – Morale is a little bruised from the last two years, due to challenging economic pressure and market turbulence.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep it up. A breakthrough is coming soon.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Line 6

Pros – Casual Environment, good salary and benefits

Cons – Turnover rate is extremely high.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Line 6

Pros – Daily involvement and focus on music and musical instruments. Friendly and politicaly correct employees. Highly decorated "show" building with cool jam room. Ok salaries.

Cons – Poor health plans. Poor bonus plan (with unreachable goals). Leadership is split. IMO the modeling technology is now considered old as many competitors are now doing the same modeling. Some with better features and lower price.

Advice to Senior Management – IMO Line 6 needs a CEO change. The company has already reorganized twice before, but never at the very top level. I believe a new CEO (and CFO) is needed to give the company a new breath of fresh air, and a new direction.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend