Don't recommend, poor leadership and quarterly if not more frequent layoffs and firings - Anonymous employee Labelbox Employee Review

1.0
Jan 24, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart and caring individuals in non-leadership roles / middle management roles Decent healthcare / basic benefits (PTO) Middle of the road comp

Cons

CEO, and to an extent executive staff, are poor leaders who create an environment of distrust because they make decisions based strictly on emotions or on a whim with 0 planning or coordination especially in regards to communication. On-top of that they set poor examples. Example behaviors of Leadership that have occurred at Labelbox: "Someone caused a the platform to go down at 2am, why wasn't someone there to stop it?" (The CEO himself was at fault for causing the incident, instead of taking ownership of his mistake, he put it on the technical / support teams as their fault) "Let's fire someone / put them on a PIP even though they just exceeded expectations in our review a week ago because they said something funny in a meeting I had with them this morning." "I like in-person office setting, therefore everyone should be required to do it also." "I expect everyone to work Friday night / Saturday / Sunday, because I can. If not, this will reflect poorly on their performance." "Cancel / make people work over Christmas Holidays because if we don't, the company is going to shutdown on New Years Day." "I'm going to code this out myself, and get the product feature into the product at midnight (who cares about the impact or risk) because I want to / I have an AI agent helping me."

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Strong peers at the IC level who are capable, thoughtful, and committed to doing good work

Cons

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