Untrained managers - Toxic environment - Anonymous employee TraceLink Employee Review

2.0
Jul 16, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Stock options (considering it’s a private company is quite a thing)

Cons

- Less pay if you’ve been working with the same company for a while. - No work life balance. - Where other companies are offering taking care of their employees well being by giving extra day off or early release. Tracelink asks employees to work over day offs and over weekends with no extra pay. - Too much of politics with management - unrealistic deadlines - Managers are not good leaders. They lack managerial skills. Some of them reflect as if they are too busy to attend any team meetings (with an empty calendar). Some of the managers don’t even add their time offs to common platform for tracking but the same managers forces others to do so. - The worst thing is that you need to explain why you’re taking a sick day. Managers sometimes ask the reason of taking the sick day, just to make sure you’re actually an extra day off. - Micromanagement at its best which makes the environment very toxic and uneasy to survive

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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