Mastercard reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(7,734 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 7,734 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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3.0
Sep 27, 2019

Ok

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Pros

Work life balance, friendly culture

Cons

Highly matrix org, political and slow. Too many acquisitions without strategic direction. The culture is more about who you know than meritocratic. They claim to want to promote female and minority talent but believe this is just talk

1.0
May 26, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Switch from technical to Management is easy.

Cons

Poor management, a lot of overtime. It used to be good when I started with the company about 10 years ago, even I need to work a lot of overtime, but I was happy. But In recent years, more politics played. The managers are also double standard, and you can't trust your managers any more, since they shared what you privately told them personal information in a 1x1 meeting with other senior managers. Also, the managers are all share the same boat, so if you have any dispute with your manager, you likely won't have any chance to appeal to your skip level managers.

3.0
Sep 15, 2016

Okay place for a first job

Anonymous employee
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Pros

APT has social, young, fun work environment and I work with great team members. Additionally, the senior management seems to highly value employee feedback. The compensation is very good and there many opportunities to get pretty significant raises if you work hard. The company cares a lot about growing employees from within, so if you are committed to staying at APT there is a lot of opportunity to learn and rise.

Cons

I work 9am - 9pm most days and usually a little bit every weekend as well. This is the norm for client services/marketing (or even a little bit less than the norm), but not engineering. There are very limited exit opportunities because APT values highly specific skills, many of which are not translatable. The company looks down on grad school as well and does not sponsor any graduate degrees. Lastly, the company is quite conservative and old fashioned in its way of doing business so not at all like a young tech startup (likely because much of senior leadership come from 1990's consulting background).

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