Toxic Culture - I am currently employed here - Software Engineer TraceLink Employee Review

2.0
May 2, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1] Pay is good, above industry standards (with respect to other companies in Pune) 2] Mediclaim policy (covers your parents as well) 3] Stable Company (So no risk of layoff) 4] Lunch and Snacks are free

Cons

Can say this with 100% surity. Do not go by the good reviews on glasdoor. If you value work life balance, this is not a company for you. 1] Toxic culture + buttering culture. People are not that good here 2] Strict 5 days working policy. Your performance appraisal will depend on this. 3] Managers are very MICRO-MANAGING here. I am writing this in capital as I want you to understand the depth of toxicity here. It will affect your mental health and daily life. 4] It's a hell for employees coming from good product companies. You will find yourself with less dev work and more of design work. Devs are required to do QA as well, create videos related to the same, take approvals from UX, other devs and QA. You will burn yourself in this process. It will happen daily. 5] No learning curve here, so if you want to learn, this is not a company for you. 6] Managers will request you to work on weekends as well and they will compare you to other employees who are working on weekends if you are not working on weekends. 7] Favoritism culture in the company.

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5.0
Apr 24, 2025
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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

Working with different teams to push for a unified goal/product release is not streamlined well. Example: If you are an engineer trying to achieve a planned activity, and you depend on multiple teams to achieve the task, then you often face delayed responses or long estimates to address dependencies.

2.0
Apr 15, 2026
Recommend
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Business outlook

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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