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2.9

48% would recommend to a friend

(60 total reviews)
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Tim Vanderhook

57% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Specific Media has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 60 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Specific Media employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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60 reviews
1.0
Dec 14, 2013

Amenities: great. People: terrible.

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Pros

Free fully stocked kitchen with salads, cold case of beverages, coffee machines that grind the beans per order, chest of tea bags, chips, cookies, candy, trail mix, jerky, fruit, bagel Fridays, espresso, catered lunches for meetings, etc. If you ever get a chance to visit the Myspace office, they have their own in-house cafe where food is prepared to-order (something like $15 credit per day to spend on any food/drinks/snacks there). The amenities are pretty sweet. Benefits were also covered 100%.

Cons

When asked what you love about your job, most would answer that it's the people. Usually, that's the case for me. Well, this simply wasn't true at Specific media. I'm positive that this varies greatly by department, but the one I joined was filled with a bunch of employees who exuded the awful attitude of "it's everyone for themselves." The department was unfortunately run by a narcissist, and that person's penchant for office politics and power trips noticeably influenced the behaviors of the department's employees (and definitely not in a good way). Working there felt like I was beating my dignity to death with a shovel. No amount of free food was worth that.

1.0
Apr 12, 2013

Management is a bunch of Morons

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Pros

They own Vindico - avery promising Startop

Cons

After purchasing myspace, the company started losing boatloads of $$$. They have since tried to recover by firing tons of staff. The Ceo's are three brother who are cluless about the industry. Theyre gameplan was to become friends with Justin Timberlake, and in the process lose hundreds of millions of dollars. It's ok though, they just fire the employees at the bottom when this stuff happens.

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