Pine Labs Reviews

3.8

77% would recommend to a friend

(1,247 total reviews)
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B. Amrish Rau

82% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

Pine Labs has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,247 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pine 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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2.0
26 Nov 2020
Recommend
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Pros

1) You would probably work as a sole contributer, working under impossible deadlines, so the only Pro is you'd learn to work under immense pressure. 2) The product offerings are good, but then, it would only benefit the company, and in no way, you as an individual.

Cons

1) First of all, all the 5 star ratings that you might notice have come in recently and are fake. 2) Unrealistic expectations from the employees. 3) Toxic work culture, you'd be expected to put in 14 hours a day, including the weekends. 4) Spineless HR ; They would do what the senior managers from the technology department would ask them to do. You can not go to them with your grievances and expect a resolution. The HR also don't stand by their words. 5) They would try to lure you with a good pay package, but don't fall for it. I haven't seen a company with this high variable to fixed component ratio. And they would mess up your variable at the end of the year if you are not in the good books of your manager (it can fall anywhere in the range of 0-30%). 6) They would mess up your FnF one way or the other citing unnecessary deductions.

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1.0
17 Apr 2026

Pinelabs Downfall is real

Recommend
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Pros

Only good thing is salary comes ontime.

Cons

This Qautrer leadership town hall was beyond insulting. Employees are being told there may be no appraisals this year and that layoffs could hit teams across the company, while leadership appears to have no problem spending on luxury trips and PR-friendly “tech visits.” employees deserve a direct answer: where is this money coming from, and why is it not being used to support the people actually doing the work? What makes this worse is the growing perception that some leaders may already be thinking about their own exits once their lock-in period ends in mid-May. You do not get to squeeze employees, destroy morale, threaten livelihoods, and then walk away after enjoying the benefits at the top. People are not stupid. They can see the double standards. No appraisals for employees. Possible layoffs for teams. But luxury travel for leadership. That is not “business reality.” That is hypocrisy. If leadership has any integrity left, they should answer openly: Why are employees being asked to suffer while leadership continues to enjoy privileges? Why should anyone trust leaders who seem more focused on themselves than on the company and its people? And why should employees carry the burden of decisions they never made?

2.0
10 May 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. you will get to work on good technology.

Cons

Again telling wherever you see a rating of 5 given by a developer is just fake and put by HR . 1. Managers think that they are supreme leader and they treat developer/ tester like a servant 2. You will be supposed to work on weekends. 3. Your deadline will always be x/2 4. From last 1 month , talking about my team, release is planned on every Friday and yes obviously we have been working on weekend , weekday ,day and night and no recognition from manager's side. 5. How can there be release every Friday and manager doesn't care about his team. During this corona virus many employees are mentally frustrated and pine labs will see lot of resignation after this lockdown ends. 6. Manager doesn't care about code standards and test cases before release and if something goes wrong then shout about test cases. If proper time will be given everything can be done.

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