Promising, but they need help - Anonymous employee TraceLink Employee Review

2.0
Aug 7, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

As many other reviews have already spoken to, the industry is brand new and ripe for the taking. Tracelink is in the lead and they got there because of hard work and intelligent people.

Cons

Culture systemically seemed to degrade over time. Many people don't even say good morning and will simply just ignore each other. It's a tense environment where people don't tend to talk socially. I found some people in managerial roles aren't really suited to the position and merely got it because of their tenure. Tenure doesn't equate talent. Also, arrogance is an issue for a number of people. Overall, the place needs help to become what it's truly capable of. Working hard and having fun doing it are not mutually exclusive.

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Cons

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Pros

* Free lunch in the office. * Good tech solving real problems and improving the safety of the pharma supply chain. * Smart contributor and manager-level employees.

Cons

* CEO and COO don't trust the people they hire and micromanage often. When something fails, you get blamed despite an executive taking a major role in shifting it from your vision to the current state. * Penny pinching and outsourcing constantly without considering the downstream consequences. Example: Cutting an experienced contractor to use a cheap foreign freelancer from an online marketplace, resulting in deliverable delays that affect board presentations. * General poor treatment of talent. Horror stories like pressuring people to finish work over the holidays for SKO, when in reality they were being laid off. Layoffs happen annually. An incredible amount of hiring from the outside instead of promoting within too. * Terrible RTO push. Went from attributing growth during COVID to how good we were at WFH to completely eliminating remote work opportunities and mandating 5 days in office.

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