TriFin Labs Reviews

2.5

35% would recommend to a friend

(15 total reviews)
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Scott Fielder

47% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

TriFin Labs has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 15 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The TriFin Labs employee rating is 35% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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15 reviews
1.0
24 May 2018

Stay clear of TriFin Labs!!

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Pros

Remote or Work from Home allowed.

Cons

• The company is ruled over by it’s CEO with threats and intimidation. • The CEO will tell you that the company is open and transparent and welcomes open and honest feedback from within. But if that feedback is critical of the way things are done, you will be terminated immediately, and generally not receive any pay that is owed to you. • Currently being sued by two (2) former clients. • Claim to have an office in San Jose, Costa Rica and they do not…it is all just a marketing ploy. • Pay is ALWAYS at least 5 days late and occasionally checks are returned by the bank NSF. If you are an Offshore/Near Shore contractor, you can expect to be hit with up to $75 in bank fees which the company should be responsible for paying. Companies attitude is that you should feel fortunate to work for TriFin and as such, gladly pay these fees. • While a major project was melting down, CEO chose to go deep sea fishing rather then address the issues. Upon returning from fishing trip he ordered team members to work long hours, nights and weekends to fix his screw-ups and then refused to pay these team members stating it was ‘their fault’ the project blew up. • The level of dishonesty and unethical business practices by TriFin is the worst I have seen in a long time. If you disagree with the CEO, you be bullied and threatened with legal action for ‘breech of contract’ or other fictional reasons. • Over 15 former ‘Team Members’ who have either been terminated or left on their own accord have never been paid money owing them. Amounts range from hundreds to thousands of dollars. If you leave TriFin, the companies opinion is out of sight, out of mind and you do not deserve to be paid.

1.0
2 May 2018

Freelance

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Pros

I would say the "Work from home" but nowadays this is very usual in software development companies. Then I would only mention the work flexibility. But then again, when you work with Project deliverables, you get the flexibility you need as long as you deliver what's required. so... Payment. But then this one is actually a cons I am mentioning in the "Cons" section... as they pay when they want if they want.

Cons

-They Pay 15-30 days or even more after you register your work hours (2 months in my case). At some point, I was not even sure I was actually going to get paid and no one communicated properly. -Processes are not near to be defined. With the payment issues Accounting says it's management's fault, Management says it's accounting, Project lead is worried but then no one supports him or communicate. In the end, the employee is not respected as a good job was done with great effort but not appropriate timely compensation when it was ethically deserved. -If you leave the company, they will not pay you the last hours of those 15 days (fortnight). -You get multiple company management styles depending on who you talk to. so "too many chiefs and not so many Indians" -As an engineer, you want to go in, do your work, deliver and continue. But Project Managers do not look good as they don't communicate the actual status of the projects (when project is on hold) and cannot be transparent (not sure if management holds them) but you are not allowed to do your actual work due to factors that should not be affecting a serious professional company. (Relying on one single person to fix an issue, not allowing team members to book hours or continue to work on their assignments until that single person fix an issue, not communicate, etc) -Senior developers/leads with genius ideas really good. But no fundamentals in systems engineering or architectural understanding of an application of a whole system. (API security is basic when transactions include money). -Negative immature environment promoted by lead. (Gossips, unprofessionalism, un-objectiveness )

1.0
24 May 2018

Worst company ever

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Pros

The only pro is working from home

Cons

The last invoice is never paid: The CEO Scott Fielder just doesn't pay to contractors. He lies time after time ... if he responds at all. More than 15 former contractors have not been paid by his sole decision. It doesn't matter if they resigned or were fired, they will never get paid. Be careful and run away. Late payments: for current contractors payments are one week late if you are in the US, and if you are in Latin America it will be 1-5 days later in addition to you paying the fee for receiving your payment (which can be up to $75USD per wire transfer). Not Stable: In addition to not paying, you have no guarantee to have enough work. So you could have only a busy week in an entire month! meaning that you will only be paid (if you are lucky to get paid) for 1 week. This is everything but a stable job... it can only work if you do not need your job for living...

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