MediaMath reviews

3.2

48% would recommend to a friend

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Neil Nguyen

42% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

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4.0
Sep 10, 2015

Overall good, but pay needs improvement

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Pros

Employees are incredibly empowered here. You have an idea to make things better, great, present it! Decisions are made very quickly and the company is very agile, so if you like moving at a fast pace and getting things done quickly, this place is right for you . Most of the management truly supports the employee experience and wants employees to love working here. They take feedback pretty seriously and really use it to try and improve things at MediaMath.

Cons

The pay is not competitive and is below where it needs to be. Please stop trying to “sell” us on equity making up for the difference. While it’s certainly great in theory, for the majority of us it means nothing right now when we’re trying to make ends meet in some of the most expensive cities in the world.

3.0
Sep 3, 2015

Mixed bag, but overall good

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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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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.
5.0
Sep 2, 2015
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Pros

- The people at MediaMath are smart, driven, and fun. Working here has introduced me to some of the greatest friends I've made. - Work-life balance is generally great - Startup culture is especially strong in smaller offices, though still present in HQ - Great technology -- encourages interesting, groundbreaking conversations and partnerships with new and current clients. Opportunity to push the envelope in the industry. - Autonomy and ownership culture forms foundation of company philosophy.

Cons

- Growing pains. More process and vertical expansion makes the work environment somewhat less personal, less collaborative. - Salary is less competitive for the most part.

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