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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2.0
Apr 25, 2016

The Leftovers...

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Pros

Great people overall and the best work from home/PTO policy you could ask for.

Cons

I joined this company because of the tangible culture you could feel when you walked into the office. That is long gone. What's left at the "new" Four World Trade Center office is an array of open and empty desks and a dismal looking set off staff. The recent layoffs have left an unrecognizable MediaMath behind. HR has been an easy target to blame, when they themselves have been left in the dark with no leadership while operating lean for months. It's unfortunate when lower level employees have excellent performance and could really make a difference in the organization but are overlooked and stumped by the wads of money spent on the front of house teams budgets and spending. Most lower level employees are underpaid and could make loads more at any other job. Only thing keeping me here is the unlimited paid time off, but wouldn't be surprised if that went away next...considering every perk that make it bearable to stay here has been slowly taken away or lessened greatly.

5.0
Apr 18, 2016

Massive growth and lots of opportunity

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Pros

Smart people and hard problems everywhere, with every opportunity to create the job you want. Strong engineering culture: focused on ongoing learning, experimentation, distributed systems acumen, CI/CD/automation oriented, and lots of opportunity to play with truly big data (as in, petabytes!). Work from home whenever you want, work the hours you want, work with great people, and work on interesting problems.

Cons

Get even better at culling the bottom performers. They're having a hard time keeping up with the change and that has the effect of holding the broader team back and frustrating their coworkers. Figure out a way to reinforce the pockets of entrepreneurial culture that are leading the pack in productivity.

1.0
Apr 12, 2016

Lay Offs: MediaMath is downplaying it

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Pros

Great friends and smart people that I will miss working with. There are a great number of talent people working for this company but I'm afraid their time is running short. Great for those that enjoy the thrill of being aboard a sinking ship!

Cons

MediaMath had a great number of layoffs and as much as they are trying to spin it in a positive light with their Alpha program (program of "resources" to help those that were let go), the program is quite useless to the displaced workers. It's just an empty shell for PR. They could have helped these employees by giving them a lot more notice so they can start the search for a new job sooner. This Alpha team was conceived at least two months ago (February 2016) and all they came up with was a program that didn't really do anything. Now that's MediaMath efficiency. There were signs of doom when management was trying to sell stock to its own employees on two separate occasions. Clearly, an IPO is not hopeful to management and they're trying to milk money from employees when they know that it's not worth the price. It's a disgraceful management team leading this company that will stop at nothing to get rich at the expense of their employees. Word has it that there will be more lay offs coming. If you're looking to get a job at MediaMath, you should know that they have had hiring freezes and budget cuts since before the start of the year. MediaMath is not growing but in fact shrinking. My inside sources say there will be a lot more lay offs to come and that the fun, startup culture is just not there anymore.

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There are some true things here, as well as some assertions that are not fair to your former colleagues here at MediaMath. Yes, MediaMath restructured into regionally-led sales teams and more agile product business units. Yes, that involved ending our relationships with some employees (somewhere in the lower to mid-single digits of our team). That transition made some roles unnecessary, which while painful was part of the point — it was getting too hard to get things done, and product and business decisions were not being made as easily as they should. It is NOT fair to say that leaders are “profiting” from employees by offering them stock purchase plans. We are committed at MediaMath is to giving everyone a stake in our success, and the goal with employee stock purchase is to allow employees to scale up that stake on favorable terms. Alpha, too, is a serious effort to activate folks beyond our walls in pursuit of our mission — I don’t think anyone who has participated in the program this week has found it insincere or useless. I am confident that we have done what it takes to see substantial and healthy growth in 2016. –Mike
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