MetaLab Reviews

4.1

86% would recommend to a friend

(43 total reviews)

79% positive business outlook

MetaLab has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 43 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The MetaLab 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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43 reviews
4.0
27 Jan 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Top notch design house. Maybe the best in Canada right now. - Best place to get introduced to product design work in Canada. - Working with amazing, very very talented designers and pms who are passionate about their jobs.

Cons

- Leadership is not very strong, hard to trust - Company is not focused on growing their people - Not a diverse workforce

5.0
5 Nov 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

• Metalab invests in growing people and is excellent at coaching • Metalab is structured to make roles clear and provide firm boundaries that protect your work/life balance • You'll work for top startups and established companies around the world • Metalab listen to everyone in the company about who they want to work with and they go get them (and it works) • Metalab is very dedicated to anti-racism and I think will continue to increase diversity of staff into the future • The best leadership I have encountered in the agency world. Clear, thoughtful and smart. • Overwhelmingly female leadership which makes for an inspiring place to work • Well resourced projects. Metalab know their team's strengths, weaknesses and goals and work hard to get the right people on the right work • If you need time off (who doesn't especially in agency work) you will get as much as you need/want • Colleagues are great people and look out for one another • Metalab is designed to be remote-first. Even if you work in Europe you will find everything is structured around normal and realistic office hours that you are in control of • In normal times you get to travel to lots of fun places • You meet up with everyone in person once a year to keep those relationships going strong

Cons

• Nothing major • Metalab can be rather deliverable focussed. This has the net effect of shortening timelines and turning some projects into a race to deliver more stuff. I would like to see Metalab become more value driven. Sometimes spending more time to design something more thoughtfully (quality over quantity) is a better approach. • Metalab can be a little tight when it comes to employee business expenses and travel — especially air travel. This could be loosened a little given how much they charge clients for work.

5.0
14 Jun 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Top design talents - Interesting projects - Work-life balance - Fully remote environment

Cons

- The salary offered is not the best in the industry

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