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Hallmark Labs Reviews

3.2

53% would recommend to a friend

(71 total reviews)

Albert Lai

57% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Hallmark Labs has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 71 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hallmark 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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71 reviews
1.0
2 Nov 2014
Recommend
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Pros

This place is so horrific, that you actually make really great friends by bonding in mutual misery, across all departments. Too disorganized to accurately account for your sick days, consequently interviewing elsewhere is easy once you decide to finally leave. Easy to get referral bonuses at your new job by poaching your unhappy friends.

Cons

Extremely high turnover, everybody is always leaving. The benefits are absolutely deplorable, COBRA is often more cost effective for employees than the benefits here. Management is dishonest and always willing to shift blame to the people at the bottom. Honesty and integrity is frowned upon, while nepotism and incompetence is rewarded. Marketing routinely makes bad decisions (changing designs or features at the very last minute), for which engineering is blamed, despite being warned ahead of time. SCRUM is impossible when the stakeholders don't play by the rules. Marketing doesn't let the creatives or engineers do their job, sometimes resulting in unusable products. Because Marketing is driving this ship in circles and has way too much power, there's never been a true engineering roadmap, and the codebase is horrific. Engineers with initiative to dare solving the systemic problems or design issues are shot down and publicly shamed for daring to show such initiative. Plus, the CEO is arrogant and incapable of running a technology company.

2.0
1 Jan 2015
Recommend
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Pros

There are some great, dedicated people working there, both on technical and production side, and I miss working with them. There were also some opportunities to work on interesting technical problems and use new technologies.

Cons

Blame for problems was freely showered while accolades for the successes rarely were. Poor employee relations on the technical side, combined with subpar employee compensation (and broken promises) made for a demoralizing work environment. Employee input and feedback was ignored or squelched for political reasons

1.0
7 Nov 2014

A pig with lipstick

Recommend
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Pros

Pros: - There are a lot of cool creative people that do the actual work. - The core business is streaming video, similar(not the same) to Hulu, Netflix and Amazon. - The paychecks always clear, which is a huge plus for me. - Acquisitions VP is top notch!

Cons

If you believe that mistakes are the best teachers, then Spiritclips is the place for you. You'll learn the technical term "throwing people under the bus" and you'll be able to watch your manager do it daily. Compressed timelines are the norm and deadlines are set by the head of marketing without any interaction with the development team. It is then adjusted as needed to add scope or as needed to meet the promises made by the head of marketing. High employee turnover and the reasons are vast.

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