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.
