Lab49 reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(201 total reviews)
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Roman Trachtenberg

56% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Lab49 has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 201 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lab49 employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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201 reviews
5.0
Feb 22, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

If you want to be a great engineer: you'll get encouragement, support and recognition. How many employers can you say that of? If you want to work on X, management will sincerely try to get you the chance to work on X. Which for a consulting company is not easy. You get to introduce new technologies/stacks to clients, and that's exciting. Projects for clients are Lab managed - no T&M work. Smart, effective, interesting people make a culture that's somewhere between a startup and a consulting co, a good balance.

Cons

The project model is evolving, and the methodology can be onerous as the kinks are worked out. That said, being on Lab managed projects is a whole lot better that being a resource on a client-managed project. New technologies are risky, and Lab eats that risk, which can be stressful.

2.0
May 28, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Smart, competent, fun people (for the most part) Interesting projects and technologies Flattish hierarchy / more of a meritocracy Nice offices, decent snacks

Cons

Lack of transparency which is exacerbated during coronavirus. To date, we have received a total of 0 communications from leadership regarding the crisis (let alone on performance reviews and comp expectations). Extremely disappointing especially when we see other companies handling these times with grace and compassion. As another reviewer mentioned, fixed-price contract model is bad: "hero" mentality where certain individuals take on too much (long hours and weekends), boots on the ground end up absorbing all the non-commercial pain. Very few are actually qualified to be managers. Others can be inaccessible and/or outright mean. Lots of turnaround and unexplained layoffs. Very little is done to try to unify people and foster sense of culture.

1.0
Sep 19, 2019

Avoid the place

Recommend
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Pros

Fixed price projects. Can be a learning experience.

Cons

Bad culture. Very mercenary-like, often bullying. Zero management transparency.

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