Labelbox
Medium (~350)
Mercury
Large (~1,300)
Best For
Labelbox
Best for: ML infrastructure engineers building data labeling and training platforms for frontier AI labs and enterprises
Mercury
Best for: Engineers who want product ownership and fast growth building startup banking infrastructure
Ratings
LabelboxMercury
3.8
4.3
Overall
3.6
3.8
Work-Life Balance
3.8
3.9
Culture & Values
3.6
4.0
Comp & Benefits
3.5
3.8
Senior Mgmt
3.6
3.9
Career Opps
👍 72% Recommend
👤 78% CEO Approval (Manu Sharma)
👍 79% Recommend
👤 85% CEO Approval (Immad Akhund)
Culture Values
Labelbox only
🌈 Diverse & Inclusive
Mercury only
🎯 Direct Product Impact🌱 Learning & Growth🧩 Wears Many Hats
Shared
⚙️ Engineering-Driven🚀 Ship Fast & Iterate💎 Strong Comp & Equity
Pros & Cons
Labelbox
- Competitive compensation and equity
- Working with top AI labs as customers
- Rapid growth creates organizational churn
- Some teams move faster than others
Mercury
- Strong talent density with smart, motivated teammates and genuine autonomy and ownership
- Great Place to Work certified — product-first mindset with meaningful scope for every engineer
- Still figuring out how to scale processes — expect some ambiguity and shifting priorities
- Work-life balance rated 3.8/5 — periods of higher intensity during rapid growth phases
Bottom Line
Labelbox
Choose Labelbox if you want to work on the data side of AI — labeling, evaluation, and training infrastructure used by frontier AI teams — with moderate SF-based intensity.
Mercury
Choose Mercury if you want product ownership, fast growth, and to build banking infrastructure for startups — but expect growing pains and occasionally intense workloads.
Open Roles
Labelbox — 9 jobs
💻 Engineering
3
🧠 ML / AI
3
📊 Data
1
Mercury — 70 jobs
💻 Engineering
15
💼 Sales / GTM
13
👤 HR / People
4
📋 Product
4
🎨 Design
3
⚖️ Legal
3
⚙️ Operations
3
📊 Data
2
💰 Finance
2
📣 Marketing
2
🧠 ML / AI
1
🎧 Support
1
Summary
Labelbox scores 3.8/5.0 on Glassdoor with a 3.6 work-life balance rating. Mercury scores 4.3/5.0 overall with a 3.8 WLB. That’s a 0.5-point gap on overall satisfaction.
Both companies share these culture values: Engineering-Driven, Ship Fast & Iterate, Strong Comp & Equity. Labelbox also emphasizes Diverse & Inclusive. Mercury also emphasizes Direct Product Impact, Learning & Growth, Wears Many Hats.
On the hiring front, Labelbox has 9 open roles and Mercury has 70 open roles.