Parallel Labs Reviews

3.9

69% would recommend to a friend

(62 total reviews)

Robin Dhanwani

66% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Parallel Labs has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 62 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Parallel Labs employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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62 reviews
4.0
Nov 28, 2020

Great experience

Recommend
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Pros

I worked at Parallel for close to 2 years. It was my first job fresh out of university and it turned out to be a great learning opportunity. I was encouraged to exercise autonomy over my work so I never experienced any form of micro-management. Had a good work-life balance.

Cons

There is no such thing as a perfect company. Your co-workers make or break the culture of the company and I was fortunate enough to have some really supportive coworkers during my time at the company.

1.0
Jun 29, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

1. Good, modern workplace and infrastructure 2. Good projects to work on 3. Design sprints

Cons

1. No work life balance. You'll be asked to work on weekends many times, or be given work at the end of the day to take home and deliver first thing by next morning. No respect for employee's time and you are expected to be responsive at all hours 2. Highly unrealistic expectations in terms of workload and deliverables 3. Micromanagement to the finest. Your own ideas are crushed, only what they ask is to be presented, and if it does not match their exact vision, it is trashed. No autonomy at all for work. Every detail will be as per the CEO's taste, even till colors and fonts, will be as per the CEO's taste. Forget about any exploration of ideas or creativity. 4. Terrible work ethic and treatment of employees. You'll just be a consultant for them. Feedback given is very unhealthy and not constructive. Instead, it is mainly on what they like. You'll just be transforming the upper management's vision to the screen, they will examine every detail and need everything exactly as they told. 5. No benefits or perks given. Management acts like you're their private attendants, not their employees. 6. Unstable team due to frequent hirings and firings. 7. Imposing of their own work methods on the employees, no freedom to choose how to create

1.0
Jan 4, 2021

Not that great experience

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

• Good clients • Fine projects • Work/life balance is not bad

Cons

• Benefits are almost negligible. • Negative outlook and discouraging opinions. • Team is highly unstable because employees leave or get fired within months. • Unprofessional attitude towards employees in certain situations. • Unrealistic expectations, very high workload. • Projects are inconsistent in nature and sometimes you end up working on random things. • Very confrontational attitude.

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