At the time, prior to acquisition by Carlyle Group, LDiscovery was a booming startup. As things grew quickly, the need for vertical position changes came quick as well. Instead of hiring new talent outside, there was a lot of internal promotion. By all means, this is something many current employees would like to see at a company. However, several positions that were primarily responsible for overseeing day to day operations and managing people were filled by people with very poor people skills and ruthlessly vindictive temperaments. From gossip between other former employees, it seems that after the Carlyle acquisition some of the same people still remain - but were forced to attend HR training once turnover hit an all time high. It's something I still consider to be highly disturbing of the culture there - and I would recommend that anyone who might seek employment here proceed with caution.
There is no work life balance. None for the employees, and if possible, even less for project management teams. Everyone is always overworked. And everyone works weekends. Heck, full time employees to this day - from what I understand - occasionally work weekends. At what point do you say a salary is worth having no free-time for your health or your family? I felt pressured for just wanting to make sure I got an hour of gym time in a day, and whenever I went on vacation the first two or three days off had me in panic attacks from the concern over stuff at work.
