Smart people. Uninteresting work. Good compensation. - Anonymous employee Lab49 Employee Review

3.0
Mar 14, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You will work with very smart people who know their craft well. There isn't a whole lot of BS. If you are a mature professional and have an understanding of how large financial organizations work (very slowly), you would be just fine. Work life balance is pretty good outside of rare instances.

Cons

No real focus on career growth. If you happen to be in the New York office and have a relationship with senior managers, you are trusted and given opportunities. Everyone else is in the same "resource" pool and used interchangeably across projects. Terrible HR practices (they exist to be a stick over employees' heads, not really focused on development of resources)

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5.0
Sep 16, 2024
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Pros

- Working groups around Blockchain, AI, and other interesting topics - Book Club - Open and transparent leadership team

Cons

- Uncertainty around what you will be working - Can do a great job on a project, and still be left on the bench when it is finished

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4.0
May 26, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Hiring is well-gated, so you'll work with smart people. Projects are exclusively in finance so it's a great place to gain exposure in that industry. You operate with a good amount of autonomy.

Cons

It's a consulting company, so engineers are only valuable if they're billable. That means your success is tied to someone else's ability to secure a pipeline of work for you, or your own ability to upsell at your engagement - which may or may not be up to you no matter what you do. There isn't a dedicated sales team at Lab, so this can get spotty. Upper management's presence is felt in seasons - non-existant for months at a time, all over everything the next. They were nowhere to be found as AI got rolled out massively in 2026 and we got caught without a strategy and action plan - either for leveraging internally or for pivoting our model.

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