Toxic culture, broken management, and a failing series of pivots into poorly defined products - Senior Software Engineer Labelbox Employee Review

1.0
Jul 24, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Intelligent, hard-working colleagues. Flexible working locations allowed.

Cons

Incredibly high turnover - often for little reason. I've seen people given projects that were obviously doomed to fail, work long hours getting them to succeed against all odds, and then getting fired because management didn't understand what the difficulty was in the first place. Every layer of management takes more pain from the layer above it and pushes it onto the people below them. As an IC, that means maximum pain for you. Expect to be blamed for things you couldn't have helped, and for higher ups to take credit for your work routinely. Revenue is down and companies that are much younger have surpassed Labelbox in almost every category. From my perspective, the issue is organizational, and cannot be fixed without changing the CEO - you can read the same reviews here, on Glassdoor, from literally 7 years ago now saying the same thing. Realistically, it's not going to happen, and the company is going to slowly spiral the drain until there 5 year old round of funding dries up and upper management takes whatever assets are left before leaving the corpse of another failed startup behind them. Don't work here.

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5.0
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great culture, fun environment, always feel good about showing up to work.

Cons

Nothing was significantly bothersome here.

1.0
Jul 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The people you work with day to day. Some of the best folks I have ever met in my life. Genuinely smart, talented and driven. Legitimately the only thing that makes working there tolerable.

Cons

Where do I begin: 1) Management has no idea what they’re doing. Individuals in leadership positions have no idea what’s going on day to day and have really unrealistic expectations. 2) The culture is do what you’re told or get bad mouthed by individuals with some degree of power to the senior leadership. 3) They somehow attract amazing talent and have no idea on how to retain them. 10 people that have been absolutely essential in growth of the company’s revenue have left in the last 3 months and they have hired 1 replacement so far! the expectation is people who remain will pick up the remaining work. 4) No forward momentum or growth from research. The company is reactive as opposed to proactive. No ideation and investment in ideas that could lead to business growth. How is the division meant to succeed? 5) Middle management exists at its finest and its both a resource and a money sink. If everyone on the team can see it, its hard to understand why the senior leadership cannot.

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