Lab49 reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

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Roman Trachtenberg

61% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

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5.0
Feb 15, 2016
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Pros

1. Smart co-workers 2. Relaxed and chill atmosphere. 3. Really good benefits 4. Opportunity to grow horizontally and vertically 5. Flexibility to work from remote offices if needed

Cons

1. DC projects can sometimes be complex but not as technologically challenging, the way to counter that is to work on some NY projects once in a while.

5.0
Feb 15, 2016

Above-average consulting firm

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The hiring process is rigorous, so most colleagues who get in the door are smart and motivated. Engineering expertise is cutting edge and company’s reputation with clients is good enough in most cases to prescribe modern tech stacks (there are exceptions of course). Good in-house domain knowledge, very finance-focused. Management is very interested in maintaining Lab as a premium brand with clients; therefore most projects are not boring (again, there are exceptions of course) and the work is more challenging than your average consulting shop.

Cons

Limited to finance industry, therefore not as many potential clients as a general consultancy would have. If you’re client-facing you have to represent the firm well; it’s too small of a firm for someone to hide if they’re not on their game. Most of the time your own manager will be busy on projects, won’t have much time to manage, so if you need a lot of guidance it might not be the best fit. Communication from senior management can be spotty at times.

4.0
Sep 11, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

I joined LAB49 a couple weeks ago. The on-boarding process was very organized and efficient. The atmosphere is positive. You get to meet smart people. Agile development. Thin management layer. Managers are very technical. Paid for events that bring employees together. You are given a beautiful Apple laptop w/o the draconian site access restrictions you see in banks.

Cons

You have to deal with the client employees (banks) who are by and large incompetent.

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