Lab49 reviews

Lack of transparency which is exacerbated during coronavirus. To date, we have received a total of 0 communications from leadership regarding the crisis (let alone on performance reviews and comp expectations). Extremely disappointing especially when we see other companies handling these times with grace and compassion. As another reviewer mentioned, fixed-price contract model is bad: "hero" mentality where certain individuals take on too much (long hours and weekends), boots on the ground end up absorbing all the non-commercial pain. Very few are actually qualified to be managers. Others can be inaccessible and/or outright mean. Lots of turnaround and unexplained layoffs. Very little is done to try to unify people and foster sense of culture.

Lab is a consultancy and suffers from the usual consultancy issues. There's a lot of turnover in the workforce, and projects can be highly variable. The particular projects you land on can have a lot more impact on your experience than anything else. The ION acquisition was also highly disruptive to the historical Lab49 culture. Do your research, and read the news stories you can find on ION group acquisitions and the way they've been perceived by ION's employees, customers, and lenders.