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3.4

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1.0
Jun 8, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

You will possibly have good coworkers and be treated with respect on the client side. All is good as long as you don't have too many lab people on your team politicking to remain off of the chopping block and giving you their dunning krueger energy. Also the pay is good - just so long as you even work there, since most engineers being outsourced from small 2nd world countries now.

Cons

horribly pretentious place. You WILL be thrown under the bus if you are not a nepotism awardee or don't go to pretentious events and sit around ungenuine shallow people wasting time for participation trophies. People act friendly while you work with them but most are two faced and transactional. Look at their social media presentations for a good idea. They keep push nonsense and boilerplate as if it's revolutionary and disincentivize you from doing a good job. It won't matter if you turn water into wine as a technical person at the end of the day. Your work will not be respected, and you will have the quality stomped out by managers if you have the misfortune of working with them directly in a client site. They will try to squeeze every ounce of your time. Even engineers. Don't give it to them if you need a job. Go home, take the severance or make due. You will be really thankful not to be here when it's over.

1.0
Feb 4, 2023

Layoffs | Bunch of liars | Don't join the company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Tech head at Noida is the only pro about the company. although as a Product Manager, you will barely get to interact with him.

Cons

No job guarantee. No severance package. No respect to employees. They sell you the post by saying that you will be appointed on projects where your expertise can be used. But then, when the time comes they put you anywhere you want. And then even if you do good on those projects, you will not be paid bonus because they will make sure to lay you off before bonus season. They are laying off people by forcing them to resign. The HR calls, and forces you to send resignation before the call ends - otherwise they will terminate your employment and not give you a relieving letter. The leadership has no idea about the company's direction. You are hired for region X, but when region doesn't have work - they ask you to plead other regions if they have any work. They wont even bother informing other region POCs about you. So when you call them out of blue, they are as clueless as you. They will make you go through countless interviews in sister companies to "retain you". But even if you clear the rounds, and the hiring team wants you - they will lay you off because the "CEO did not respond to approval emails". They will lie their hearts out by promising you stuff that they can never deliver. I made the mistake of not paying too much heed to the negative Glassdoor reviews - I hope no one else makes the same mistake. This is my first ever review, hope someone reads it and find it useful.

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Lab49 Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share with us your experience. We understand it has been a difficult journey for you. While no company is immune to the current challenging climate, we strive to always do our best by our team, and are working to become a better employer to ensure this experience isn’t repeated. We’re proud of our team in India and the leadership we have, and are glad that they were helpful during your time at Lab. We've built a high performing global workforce that has the agility to work with other regions, clients and cultures – while this isn’t easy for everyone, switching clients and projects is common in our consultancy model where we believe great talent can be found across the globe. In 2022 we made a serious investment in our People Managers, upskilling them with our training partner, LifeLabs learning. We’ve seen our attrition drop, and the reasons that people move on have changed too, reflecting the improvement in the way management works at Lab. We are always reviewing our policies and procedures to retain our talented employees, or part ways with care and dignity and are sincerely sorry that on this occasion we were not able to retain you. Thank you again for taking the time to share your feedback with us and make Lab a better place for everyone.
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