Le Site Reviews

3.0

42% would recommend to a friend

(38 total reviews)

Erick Vadeboncoeur

100% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Le Site has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 38 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Le Site employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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38 reviews
1.0
28 May 2020

Enough is enough

Recommend
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Pros

Half of the workplace was made up of great working people who knew their trade. Real professionals that helped me grow as a person, as a dev, and who all got great jobs elsewhere now.

Cons

I did not plan on writing a review; i felt it was professional curtesy to be kind to a previous employer who did game me a great opportunity at a time. Alas the employer i liked is long gone today. About a year ago, new management came in; basically people from another market who had sadly no idea how a web agency worked. They were great at using promising terms and buzzwords, talking about growth, opportunities, and calling themselves "E-comm gurus". What happened was basically a downward spiral; Senior devs weren't listened to and technical and strategic decisions fell on people with no technical skills. Those dev then were blamed when they failed to deliver on things they warned their managers about at the very start. Senoirs, seeing this, left for a place their input would be listened to. Management, having no respect for development process, either did not replace them, or hired juniors (and you can see on other reviews they wrote how they treated those) Basically, the CBD market failed, and the websites ended up with no sales at all. To avoid the shame of it and to look good in front of investors, the new management decided to offload the blame on the Devs, which then led to a toxic work environnement and the seniors leaving. Seeing the company was going down (and actually seeing toxic behavior from mid-management get rewarded with promotions), i decided to get a job at a workplace that respects itself better. It was actually a good move, since a few months later, the dev team was all laid off, in favor of cheap labor from east europeans countries. Then again, the company never really valued dev expertise, so it was a natural scapegoat for them. Now why am i writing this? I was quiet. Someone in management is keen on spreading lies about the dev team. We're all friends, and we know who this is. We do our best to report the false posts to Glassdoor review, but seeing my ex-colleagues get repeatedly insulted by fake profiles is getting old. This is actually a really good example at the mood at LeSite. Management will spread lies, use empty buzzword and cheap sales tactics, will throw you under the bus for their failures, and pretend they are helping you as they try to get the most of the sinking ship. They treat their clients the same way, pretending they develop in house, selling impossible projects that ends up half-done, and actually hiding information. See the fake reviews the self-proclaimed Guru wrote, and ask yourself if you would trust this team to build a project for your needs, or to offer you a workplace where you are treated with respect. And if you are reading, all the former devs all got great jobs now, and no one would go back. Better pay, better respect, better projects, and working for a professional agency that doesn't let some frustrated, small people spread falsehood on a review website.

1.0
7 Apr 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great development team with a lot of knowledge and a nice work life balance. Lots of time for lunch and beer. I was never asked to work overtime.

Cons

Upper management made some truly baffling decisions that made no sense. Got acquired by a company to build their site, and when the site had no sales they laid off everyone except for the sales team. The management was stubborn and doubled down on their bad decisions and didn't include any of the employees in the decision making process (some of employees being more senior than upper management). Projects and features get insanely undersold to land the client, and then the blame/pressure falls on the devs when they can't deliver. Eventually the clients end up leaving. Bonuses get promised and not delivered, a toxic culture at the top lead to toxicity among the teams until everyone was complaining and hated their job. Glad to have gotten out.

2.0
15 Feb 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The office is nice and well located. Salaries are good. Good place to learn if you don't mind the grind. If you're lucky you might get to work with some nice people.

Cons

The work is really boring. Always doing Magento, sites tend to all look the same to "save development time". The upper management does not have a clue how to manage an agency. The projects are always under-evaluated, which puts a lot of stress on developers. Features are added last minutes at no cost. Clients complain that projets don't get delivered on time, etc etc etc. In the couple of years I worked there, I have seen less than a handful of projets delivered. The office environment is really toxic and it feels like a lot of people are on the brink of snapping. Some of the most interesting projets are sold as if they are being made in-house but are instead offloaded to other developers in Europe. For all the above reasons, the employee turnover rate is incredibly high. If you like working with someone there, enjoy it while it lasts because they probably won't stay for long. Promises are made, like compensations and stuff, but never really delivered.

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