TraceLink reviews

3.0

43% would recommend to a friend

(363 total reviews)
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Shabbir Dahod

50% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

TraceLink has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 363 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The TraceLink employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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363 reviews
4.0
Nov 8, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

If you like working for a start up style company then TraceLink is an excellent company. It is an exciting time as the company continues to grow quickly hiring many new people around the world. I have the opportunity to work at TraceLink's offices in Massachusetts USA, Mumbai India, and Uxbridge UK and the energy level is high and the teams are very dedicated. People are willing to work extra hours to help the company succeed. If you are prepared for a fast paced environment with some long days then TraceLink is for you. The leadership in the department that I work in is excellent and the collaboration across the department is strong. I know I will get the support I need. The same is true when I engage across other departments at TraceLink.

Cons

Like all fast growing, fast paced organizations there are growing pains. The company is working hard to provide more training on our products, industry, and career but it has not kept pace. But the signs are there for improvement. Knowledge transfer from the company founders to other staff is happening slowly. All decisions made from the top of the organization is also moving in the right direction. You just need to be patient.

1.0
Aug 25, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Work-life balance - Free lunch

Cons

- The code-base is the *worst* code-base I've seen in my 15 years of work in the industry - The people overseeing engineering don't have a clue on how to fix it. Their solution - use Java instead of Scala. Java doesn't write itself! You need good engineers for that. - To give an idea of just horrible the code-base is, simple HTML and CSS changes require modifying anonymous functions in Scala! - The people who have made the mess have been promoted and quite honestly it shows that they have had no experience building web apps. - Engineering management is a disaster. I had interns who were running amok, slinging huge amounts of business critical code with no oversight. Their code was *extremely* poorly formatted, with no test coverage and no one had a clue as to how it happened. Everyone is sitting there looking at each other, clueless!! - Rollouts are a nightmare. Stuff breaks *all* the time. Everything falls on one guy, and it's kinda strange why that happens. It could be individual effort, it could also be wanting to own black-boxes, type of big company culture.

1.0
Nov 17, 2016

Managment does not value you or your time

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

No pros to working at Tracelink.

Cons

The culture and values are poor, management does not value or respect you unless you are in a high level position, career growth is improbable, the HR team will not do anything if a problem arises, the sales team cannot hit their numbers each quarter because they are too high, and the salary is low in comparison with location/competitors.

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