Lab49 Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Lab49

Pros – Smart developers, smart developers, smart developers. Certainly, some are better than others, but the bar is high. You will not be frustrated with ANY colleague over their ability to learn, adapt, and apply whatever technology is necessary for any given project. Our juniors devs are your rock stars. You will not be pigeon holed into any particular platform or tech stack. Microsoft developer looking to explorer Objective-C, or Node.js, or Scala? No problem. Learn it, and be engaged on a project using those technologies. Nice people.

Cons – Lab49 is an exceptionally run organization of its type. Frustrations are mostly due to client failings and incompetence. But even there, Lab49 has processes to manage those problems.

Advice to Senior Management – More pay, more vacation. Keep up the good work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Lab49

Pros – outstanding co workers
interesting projects
good exposure

Cons – senior management lack of experience
poor internal communication (getting better)

Advice to Senior Management – hire more experienced leadership from established top consulting firm

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Lab49

Pros – Lab49 takes a lot of pride in hiring the best of the breed, so you will find yourself surrounded by really talented individuals. There is a lot of emphasis on learning, and peer based training.

Lab49 generally pays 10-15% more base compensation than most financial firms and they also give out a guaranteed bonus.

Vacation time is generally a week more than most companies, and the health benefits are at par with most financial firms.

This place is almost devoid of politics, so if you are a geek and enjoy technical aspects of your job then this is the place to be at.

Cons – Once you get into lab49, promotions are very difficult to get, you could find yourself stuck at the same level, with the same pay for upwards of 2 years in most cases.

You get geekier and geekier, but if you aspire for middle-management jobs, then this place is not for you.

You may find yourself shuttling from project to project and the duration of some of the projects could be as less as 3-4 weeks.

Advice to Senior Management – It's important that you give timely pay hikes, if you don't feel that an employee deserves a hike in a particular year, you should discuss it with the employee

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Lab49 full-time

Pros – interesting, challenging, good projects, good clients

Cons – bad culture, senior management issues, very bad communication

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Lab49 full-time for more than a year

Pros – Staff are recruited to a high level of technical skill.

Cons – They will not keep any promise or agreement they make. The will use you until burnout, ignore anything you tell them, and discard you as soon as you are no longer putting out as much as they want.

Advice to Senior Management – Try investing in the long term value of your people.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend