Abandon hope all ye who enter here - Engineer Ladders Employee Review

1.0
10 Jun 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Paychecks arrive regularly, they will fill you with food until you drop dead, and once upon a time, there were some very talented, pleasant people to work with (not for)

Cons

Constantly changing directions from a narcissistic, sociopath who will tell you to make everything blue on Monday and yell at you on Tuesday because everything isn't red. The HR department has an extremely loose grasp of employment legality (FYI FMLA is a right, not a privilege), will say anything (but never in writing) to get you to leave them alone, and mostly seems to exist to prevent the CEO from doing anything that will land himself in jail. Regardless of how many times the company regurgitates the same canned response, the reality is that this company has had nearly 100% turnover in engineering, management, marketing, and data science in the past year, not because they've "cleaned house", but because everyone quit.

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5.0
27 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Interesting projects and good team culture.

Cons

Old technology that needs refactoring.

2.0
10 Mar 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

This review is from 2011. Opportunity cost, you work in New York. Anything can happen there at any time. Well stocked and good variety of snacks. Oatmeal provided for breakfast. The company gave things sometimes like blankets and T-shirts.

Cons

Company culture is unconventional. The end of the workweek is Thursday, because the jobs posted that day go live Friday. So everyone celebrates the end of the week on Thursday instead. If you have a long commute you will be forced to make a choice between sleep and connecting with coworkers and colleagues after the day. Permatemps are also treated as second-class citizens, due to a Supreme Court decision. They don't get to participate in company morale events, such as barbecues, picnics,. One time the company hired masseuses to give employees massages. Permatemps did not get to receive a massage. Management will take credit for your work, so document every exchange. Management would rather terminate employees in the case of an HR incident rather than address the problem.

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