MediaMath reviews

While MediaMath does a good job hiring talent, they don't help themselves at all on retention. It only takes about 12 months for solid performers to see what's it's like and either resign themselves to staying in their role long enough to avoid questions in future job interviews, or start looking immediately for their next step. Leadership here is quite poor. Over a two year period, the company completely switched departmental priorities multiple times based on the latest "opportunity" in the market without adhering to a long term vision and without properly resourcing against current commitments. This is a culture of "no" internally, but "yes" to everything under the sun externally. This is the place to work if you're willing to sit at your desk and do a limited role, and aren't easily bothered by meetings and inefficiency. If you have suggestions on how to improve processes, expect to fight hard and get nowhere. On culture, it's only as deep as your manager. In the Cambridge office, the engineering team lacks leadership of any kind, and the attrition over the last 12 months is evidence of that. The engineering lead for the last two years is openly disrespectful of his own team and his product peers, and has loudly yelled at and berated others in the office with no repercussions. Amazingly, he's still employed though no one on our engineering team can explain what he does. If you're hurting for a job, sure, jump on board here until you find your next step. Otherwise, keep looking. C-level leaders are much more focused on getting acquired for a price that begins with a 'b' than making a quality product and aligning resources to serve market needs (reportedly turned down an acquisition offer for $900M).

MediaMath used to be a great environment to work with lot's of friendly faces and interesting things to work on. Sadly since last year's layoffs things haven't been the same and probably never will be. MediaMath's executive team is a complete disaster, more than half of the team has no idea how to run their organizations. Unfortunately because so many of these members have inflated egos they're unable to take a step back and realize they are no longer the best fit for their role. The client success organization is filled with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and importance they simply do not deserve. Sales and account managers are a dime a dozen and it doesn't take a rocket scientist. They also spend more money on frivolous client dinners, happy hours and ridiculous amounts of travel that don't amount to more revenue. For most new people coming in there is almost no training or on-boarding because people are leaving by the masses. There are also no raises or promotions for employees who have worked hard and deserve it, only for those who are willing to suck up to whoever will listen and spend hours stroking managements egos telling them how wonderful and smart they are. If you're an employee at MediaMath and have been at the company for 2 years or more you can forget it you're probably not going to get that raise and promotion you were promised. You'll be better off going somewhere that will actually pay you what you're worth. The HR department (or what's left of them) is pretty incompetent for the most part and don't actually have any power to change or do anything because no one seems to trust them. They did hire a new CPO finally so hopefully she'll be able to make some changes but that's doubtful considering there's never been strong leadership in that department. Overall it's really sad what happened to a once fun and happy place to work but management only has themselves to blame.