Kinda hard to evaluate - Software Development Engineer In Test II TraceLink Employee Review

4.0
Jun 18, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Almost everyone on Dev and QA is great to work with - Stock options - Great CEO - Free food once the office opens again

Cons

- Base pay isn't great relative to the industry - The management for what is currently the main project seems far more concerned with meeting arbitrary deadlines than writing quality code - Work/life balance on some of the teams is terrible (not all of them though, it's kind of a coin toss based on who you end up working with)

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5.0
Dec 19, 2025
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Pros

CEO is visionary Positive work environment

Cons

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2.0
Apr 15, 2026
Recommend
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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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