Maybe a great company in the USA.. but avoid working for them in Europe - Anonymous employee Specific Media Employee Review

1.0
5 Oct 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- People.. most of them are smart - Spirit - Used to be leading in the Industry

Cons

-A typically USA company that doesn't know how to do business in Europe. Founders are not involved enough nor do they know how Europe works. -Online Advertising Dinosaurs... they used to dominate this industry. Lack of technology, strategy and flexibility will bring this company down. -People do not come first. The CEO and very senior management are not people persons.. they simply do not care and get rid of people without any emotion.

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5.0
12 Oct 2021
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
15 Nov 2010
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Pros

You'll definitely get lots of interesting projects in a challenging timeframe. Management is flexible with regard to time off, and my direct management, at least, was very results driven. Salaries, while just a little bit low, are reasonably competitive. Snacks are provided, lunch is catered every month, and the holiday parties are quite the shindigs. If you are on the right team senior management will leave you alone to do your job.

Cons

Senior management at this company values saving face and making money above *all* else. However, because of this, they tend to cut off their nose to spite their face. Terrible management and resource allocation decisions are made for political reasons, and sometimes for no discernable reason at all. A geographically diverse management structure makes for turf wars and resource starvation for critical infrastructure, and while HR is well intentioned and competent, their influence is very much limited with senior management. Because of that, extremely abusive situations have happened and took much longer than necessary to rectify, causing a significant amount of turnover and brain drain.

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