Mixed bag, but overall good - Anonymous employee MediaMath Employee Review

3.0
Sep 3, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

MediaMath is a dynamic company in a dynamic industry so regardless of what role you're in at the company, you have a lot of responsibility and a lot is expected of you. So there are tons of opportunities to learn. The culture is laid back in terms of dress code and hours. As long as you get your job done, there's no need for face time. And the people are generally nice. People generally seem to be pretty enthusiastic about working there. One great perk was that people actually took their vacations. The company has an unlimited vacation policy which sounds great, but in reality, that means that people don't take a lot of vacation. But it wasn't because of the company policies. In fact, when people took vacation, it was generally respected and not a big deal.

Cons

One huge con is that there are no women in leadership positions, and women are paid less and treated differently (ie, currently only 2 women in management). For example, there was a reorganization of the engineering teams, where groups were broken into tribes to support products. 6 of the 8 tribes were managed by men, and 2 by women. The men all had VP titles and the women were project managers. Many women told me that they had concrete evidence of being paid below their male peers. In general, the company pays well below market compared to its peers. On top of low pay, they require that you sign a non-compete when joining so that you can't go to another company in the same industry that would pay you more. With any fast growing company, you sometimes don't get the best talent, and the company's really bad at training people. This meant that sometimes you didn't have competent people but it wasn't really their fault. As with lots of startups/tech companies, there's lots of disorganization, but the HR department had a particularly bad rep. It seemed that everyone who had any contact with HR was frustrated with that team.

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MediaMath Response
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Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We are certainly proud of the pros that you’ve outlined—a culture where people are happy, and one that respects vacation and work-life balance Training has been a major focus of our leadership since 2012, when we founded the New Marketing Institute. We take pride in knowing that we can prepare new employees to work in our space while continuously providing professional development for all of our employees. It’s true that we’ve had to reorganize many teams as we’ve grown rather quickly over the past eight years. We recognize that diversifying not only the leaders of the company, but the entire organization is an area where we can improve. MediaMath’s population ranks high overall in gender diversity within the tech community, however, gender diversity is something our industry as a whole struggles with. While we haven’t resolved the issue yet, our commitment towards improvement has shown in numbers. Over 1/3rd of our company leaders (Director or above roles) are currently held by women. Earlier this year, eight out of our ten hires for our Marketing Engineering Program, our flagship rotational training program, in the U.S. were female. We recognize that these are small steps forward but we see the future for diversity within the tech industry as very promising and we’re excited to be part of this positive change.

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