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
2.0
Feb 27, 2020

Toxic Culture

Recommend
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Pros

Smart people who are generally good teammates, with the exception of some senior management.

Cons

Fixed price delivery model means there is consistent pressure both on the teams but also on the client to ensure delivery risk is mitigated to preserve the firm's margin. Scrum is used, but its values are not followed and it's used as a cudgel coerce the teams and the client. A "just-in-time" staffing model also means teams have little preparation prior to engaging on a project and precious little organic ramp-up time.

1.0
Jul 29, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The other reviews on here give you a fair warning - avoid at all costs. There were once plenty of smart people here, though almost all have left.

Cons

Senior management have all quit and not been replaced, no internal structure whatsoever, projects are drying up, way behind the innovation curve.

1.0
Jun 8, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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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.

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