Great people, broken processes, bad sales - Software Developer Detroit Labs Employee Review

2.0
Dec 12, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Some of the most empathetic and intelligent humans in Detroit hang their hat at Detroit Labs. This is because of its storied past, not the current state of the company. - Genuine opportunities for juniors and mid level developers to hone their craft.

Cons

- Complete lack of sales - Lack of recent innovation, previously Detroit Labs was actively working on frameworks and open source projects. - Extremely difficult to get promoted from within. When I was denied an internal promotion, the conversation made me feel small and irrelevant. I had been working my tail off for 2+ years and it felt like nobody in leadership noticed.

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5.0
Nov 30, 2025
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Pros

I've never worked at a company that stands by their employees like Detroit Labs.

Cons

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5.0
Jul 11, 2025
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Pros

The tricky thing about Glassdoor is it takes ratings throughout the lifetime of a company and can’t be separated by eras. Having been an immersive consultant for 5 years, been apart of extended think ranks, and haven’t worked at other companies of a similar size, I believe I have a vast sample size to compare to. Detroit Labs is a great company from end to end. From the talent level to the camaraderie all the way to the future ahead. The portfolio with the brand names and the projects would be a Greatest Hits album for the vast majority of other customer software development companies. The founding team is intelligent, not just open to listening but will make sure you get the resources to do it, and has created a “cool” culture. It’s tough to describe other than that. But even from the interview process you get a great sense of it. Very professional but nice comedic relief at the same time.

Cons

None that I can think of. No company is perfect, but anything I could list would just be inconsequential nit picky things that don’t matter much, if at all, in the grand scheme of things.

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