Hallmark Labs reviews

This is a Fake tech company controlled by middle America's middle managers. Don't accept an offer here unless you are willing to go through heartbreak. You are not working at the cutting edge thriving tech company Labs is trying to model itself to be- you are working at a failed experiment on its last legs. Hallmark Labs keeps recruiting for tech positions and has a major retention problem; departments are a revolving door of developers and engineers. No one stays long because it's impossible to do work when your micromanaged by power hungry Kansas City greeting card moguls. Ultimately, after years of pain, overtime, fire drills, slashed budgets, and pressure, top priority projects are axed without notice. So for engineers, only accept a job at Labs if you enjoy going to 2 hour Meetings about Meetings, Getting three years of your work destroyed by a incompetent middle manager's rushed decision, Lame team building, and forced positivity. The company is bleeding money, good quality people, and there is an exodus of true talent- leaving only old dogs that throw newbies under the bus when things go wrong.

Strategy is done at the highest levels, so your ideas won't be heard. Any push back about process is met with silence. No real leadership team that can communicate a clear vision for the company. They have been bleeding developers for the last year and a half including all their new middle management that they WERE cultivating from developers. No mentorship for career advancement. There are lots of contractors in another country doing the work unsupervised by a technical resource. Really long and pointless tech department meetings, bad wifi, not enough conference rooms, last minute encroaching security emergencies. Employee expectations aren't clearly defined, so it's hard to know if you're being successful. Some metrics they use aren't even indicative of the job associated.