Mastercard reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(7,752 total reviews)
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Michael Miebach

87% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Mastercard has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 7,752 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Mastercard employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Oct 12, 2024
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Pros

The Benefits are incredibly good.

Cons

You will be working as if you are a contractor. Regardless of your skills and experience you will work on whatever is assigned to your team and must "be a team player" even if it doesn't align with your career goals. There is preferential treatment to local employees, remote workers are literally expected to deliver more work. They follow a modified Agile process so you get all of the meetings with none of the benefits. Story points are treated as a time commitment, they've predetermined velocity for every team. The release process is cutting edge and straight out of 2005. Most things are dated, so if you are looking to work with the latest and greatest technology that isn't happening. There is a severe lack of coding standards, tech debt is never addressed.

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Thank you for your candid feedback. We understand there are always opportunities to improve and appreciate you taking the time to share your experience. Your perspective helps us understand where we can do better as we strive to create an environment where every employee feels included, empowered and supported.
1.0
Sep 27, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Good salary and benefits. Smart engineers and data scientists

Cons

Management is clueless and amateur. Many incompetent, toxic middle managers. Hard to advance.

3.0
Sep 10, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Good willingness to accommodate family needs / work-life balance. Willingness and time allowed for giving back to the community and volunteering. Pay felt appropriate for job level.

Cons

Multiple layers of management which can be a challenge to navigate. Some people leaders are just promoted to that position because they were good at what they did prior, not necessarily because they were good leaders - this resulted in some managers being poorly suited for the role. Upper management (C-suite) often not on the same page as the delivery level employees in terms of direction. This resulted in expectations not aligning and projects being reworked causing stress all along the line. I felt this came from the multiple layers of management that directives had to go through and ended up with a 'telephone game' outcome - the delivery level were given direction that did not meet C-Suite expectations. A mindset of reacting to changes as opposed to being proactive and building products that wouldn't require a lot of manual intervention to sustain.

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