Lab49 reviews

Bonuses scheduled to be paid in April, actually paid between June - Nov even though you read online that the global CEO pays himself 9 digits a year as he buys more and more companies. Company sells itself as doing attractive front office projects with great design but banks don't actually outsource that kind of work. Hero culture where you are asked to work weekends to deliver on some unrealistic deadline instead of good management and setting projects up for success. NY culture is toxic, especially heads of strategy and project management who are verbally insulting. They seem to get it that way from the CEO and then quickly pass the buck. No support system for training / learning and development even though you get graded on it at eval time. CEO actively avoids having to interact with the proletariat staff. Low-ball all the offers and you have to fight annually for market pay directly with the lab CEO. It seems like the positive Glassdoor reviews are written by a select group of new people that management is trying to isolate and treat well and encourage to write glassdoor reviews for the sole purpose of saving their rating.

The work is mainly in the finance/fintech space, so that may be a turn-off to some people (however there is obviously tons of room for innovation in that space). Issues typical to consulting: - constantly-shifting teams - having to work around some environments with old or proprietary tech (sometimes this is unavoidable) - difficult to have a cohesive engineering culture when most people are frequently deployed to client sites (this is changing, though, as there are more events and the engineering team is having regular meetings, tech talks, etc)