Such a disappointment - Anonymous employee TraceLink Employee Review

1.0
2 Oct 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Good market position with upside

Cons

- Culture - No one talks to each other during work. It is odd. When there are company gatherings, they are tense and uncomfortable. A precious few people are comfortable enough to be themselves, mostly because very few feel secure in their position. -Stifling management: Can't speak for all departments, but I witnessed several teams that had managers who seemed to love the opportunity to publicly undercut their employees in order to cover themselves. All the signs were there during the interview process...I wish I had paid more attention to them.

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Pros

Engineering teams use niche technologies and updated stacks. Teams are very well informed and organized about the leadership GOALS. Good engineers and training is provided on various levels when needed.

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

* Free lunch in the office. * Good tech solving real problems and improving the safety of the pharma supply chain. * Smart contributor and manager-level employees.

Cons

* CEO and COO don't trust the people they hire and micromanage often. When something fails, you get blamed despite an executive taking a major role in shifting it from your vision to the current state. * Penny pinching and outsourcing constantly without considering the downstream consequences. Example: Cutting an experienced contractor to use a cheap foreign freelancer from an online marketplace, resulting in deliverable delays that affect board presentations. * General poor treatment of talent. Horror stories like pressuring people to finish work over the holidays for SKO, when in reality they were being laid off. Layoffs happen annually. An incredible amount of hiring from the outside instead of promoting within too. * Terrible RTO push. Went from attributing growth during COVID to how good we were at WFH to completely eliminating remote work opportunities and mandating 5 days in office.

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