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4.1

67% would recommend to a friend

(249 total reviews)
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Chris Lien

93% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Marin Software has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 249 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Marin Software 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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249 reviews
2.0
Oct 25, 2014

OKay

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of opportunities to learn

Cons

Politics ruins your experience alot

4.0
Oct 19, 2014

Marin Software Sydney

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Great group of people to work with - high caliber of talent, with some of the best and brightest in the industry. -Opportunity to work with market leader - in terms of total spend under management Marin is hands down the largest. -Working with largest brands globally and locally - get to work across all industries and get challenged by some big clients. -Supportive senior management - always available to talk and have been more than supportive of career progression. -Great salary and premiums (health care, commute benefits, regular travel)

Cons

-Lack of internal processes - it hasn't really gotten very far past it's burgeoning start up phase. Expectations are increasing being a recently IPO'd company, but nothing has changed much internally to help us hit these growing targets. -Within senior management locally there isn't a good representation of operational staff and are dominated by sales. A lot of time we are thrown projects with little thought behind capacity of staff, technical viability or whether we are likely to hit client's goals. -Not much focus on developing staff and promoting cross role / country opportunities, even though we have a lot of scope to take advantage of this.

3.0
Sep 16, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work-life balance. For a medium-sized company in the Bay Area, I would say their work-life balance is fairly decent. Usually I don't have an issue working just the expected 8 hours per day. Unlimited sick leave + 15 days of PTO Decent salary, decent kitchen/stocked fridge Depending on your luck, you could have an awesome manager, tech lead and interesting projects. QA get all the window seats Not much in the ways of crazy politics, backstabbing colleagues, etc. In fact, I found quite a few friends here.

Cons

Almost no one works remotely and this is only done if you're sick. This is somewhat of an issue - although there is unlimited sick leave, there's often the expectation that we work from home while we are sick. No 401k matching. High turnover. A lot of the senior employees are leaving, leaving fewer people to mentor the new hires. This is made worse by the fact that Marin likes to hire new college grads who often need training, but lack the right mentors (since so many are leaving). Not particularly Agile at all. There is often bureaucracy that stops Agile in its tracks, despite this not being a big company. The micromanaging tendencies of a few have quite possibly led to more than one employee choosing to leave. Certain teams are understaffed and overworked and Marin does not seem to be trying very hard to recruit in those areas. This should certainly take priority over hiring more new grads.

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Marin Software Response
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To address your concerns: We do allow people to work remotely if it is prearranged with their manager. It is the preference to work on-site as in-person collaboration is often more effective. As for management training, we are currently rolling this out for everyone who has a direct report. Recruiting senior software engineers is definitely a focus for us and happy to report that we have just hired 4 senior software engineers. The Bay Area/Silicon Valley is incredibly competitive, and all of our engineers are amazingly talented individuals. But rather than having just another “warm body” join our team, we do want to focus on fit. Turnover is rampant in technology companies everywhere and we are unfortunately not immune to it.
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