MediaMath reviews

3.2

48% would recommend to a friend

(449 total reviews)
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Neil Nguyen

42% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

MediaMath has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 449 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MediaMath employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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449 reviews
2.0
Jul 23, 2017

Proceed with a heavy dose of caution

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Lots of snacks. Smart coworkers. Nice offices.

Cons

Where to begin... You will work with a lot of very smart people, but the amount of ego here is incredible. They think by hiring smart people that will make a great business but they forget to give them defined rolls and direction. And that all starts at the top. This company is one of the most poorly run businesses I've been apart of. The CEO is basically checked out. There is a lot of turnover in executive positions. 3 CFO's in 2 years. No head of HR for over a year. 3 execs lead the technology organization with not one being in charge. People's rolls are blurry at best and there is a lot of unnecessary crossover and confusion about where responsibility should land. They went on a huge hiring spree when the company was booming and even after a few layoffs they still have way too many people. So many people just seem to float around and get in the way. Making matters worse, a lot of these people have very inflated titles which makes telling them to stay in their lane more difficult. This company HAD huge potential and still could be a decent company but there is just leadership and desire to do what is necessary. Joe should step aside and get a fresh set of eyes on the business. On top of this, there is no discernible culture or vision.

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MediaMath Response
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We are excited by the new energy and strength of the leaders brought in to take a high growth company about to celebrate 10 years, to the next level. And it’s working. We are having one of our best years ever. The skill sets of our leadership team allow us to empower senior staff and allow Joe and Mike (CEO & President) to be actively engaged behind the scenes. People can work hard, be challenged with tough problems to solve, grow and develop, and have real impact. Our collaborative culture means that our Head of Engineering, Chief Product Officer and CTO partner closely and work to run tech with a singular vision and culture. It keeps us aligned, focused and more efficient. - Gloria
2.0
Jan 20, 2020
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Pros

As a client-facing resource at MediaMath, I found the work interesting — the company has good clients, which keeps the day-to-day stimulating. The office is modern and well-located, with a pantry is well-stocked with snacks and drinks.

Cons

The culture is AWFUL. I’ve never felt as undervalued and infantilized as a professional as when I was working at MediaMath. Managers are promoted beyond their abilities and have no clue what they’re doing — for the majority, managers and/or individual contributors with a Senior Director/VP title are often in their late 20s/early 30s, been promoted often internally after being there for 5+ years after, and started at MediaMath right after college. They end up being very arrogant and dismissive of people with actual work experience. They end up micromanaging even the simplest tasks and acting as the Police rather than an empowering manager. This leads to low team morale, and a clique-like mentality, where people are split between the Old Guard and talented newcomers who can’t fit in and are perceived as a threat. The product is difficult to use and not at par with the competition. This makes your day-to-day very challenging, as MediaMath the clients you need to support are often dissatisfied. It also makes you feel like your job is to fix a Product deficit, as the Product breaks often, the Product and Engineering team never delivers on time, lacks vision and lacks understanding of what the customer and market expects from a media buying platform. This also makes it hard to sell the Platform, as the tech has a bad reputation with agencies who prefer the Trade Desk and find MediaMath not intuitive to use at all.

2.0
Nov 1, 2016

Bad decision

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Open vacation and work from home policy if your manager approve. Great, smart people around. (and they know how to promote themselves)

Cons

Poor management. Manager needs to be honest to your employee, specially they are butch of smart people. Very limited career growth and bad promotion decision due to lost a lot of top talent. Most people are only doing works that benefit themselves but not the company. Thin communication between teams and that end up stall on every technical decision. Have to obey their "culture" to be treated as a member of the group. Limited hiring budget, uneven resources, intensional bad review to shave bonus, slow decision on product decision, 2 CFO, CIO, CTO left in the past year has lead to something....

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