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Worst Company Ever! - Anonymous employee Vungle Employee Review

1.0
3 Jul 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of fun off-sites. Lots of young people who want to spend time with each other. Gaming consoles and arcade games in the office. Phone booths are cool to have private conversations or remote meetings Bungalows are nice to have meetings in or to collaborate on projects. Gym reimbursement policy and the Vungle exchange program. Catered lunches with a food budget on days that it isn't catered.

Cons

The company is full of two faced people. All the way from your colleagues to the executives. They may say something nice to your face about your performance, then go behind your back to your manager and complain that you are not performing well enough. They will fire people for false accusations with no proof. No matter how hard you work or how well your performance reviews are, they do not promote people or give raises. Some of my co-workers who have been here for almost 3 years have not gotten a single raise or promotion. Your performance reviews are based on rumors or only on the mistakes you may have made, while your successes go unnoticed or unmentioned. The managers are all inexperienced and have no clue what they are doing or how to run a team properly. The front door might as well be a revolving door. People are leaving as fast as we are hiring. The company absolutely plays favorites, if someone is underperforming but is someone's favorite they will hire people to help them improve. However, if you aren't and someone doesn't like you, they will do everything in their power to get you fired even if you are a top performer. No matter how well you perform if you make one mistake they will use it against you and fire you. Every department has incompetent people who aren't doing their jobs properly but nothing happens to them because they are someone's favorite. There are people with engineer titles that don't want to code and people who aren't even in your department who try tell leads and managers how to run their teams. They don't allow working from home for most employees, except some employees can work from home once or twice a week or even go on a trip and work remotely without giving notice. The company used to be a cool place and a lot of fun but that all changed after they hired a new HR team last year. The company runs like a high school or fraternity with people constantly gossiping about other coworkers, watching your every move, making up rumors or straight up lies about each other. You can't trust anyone, plus anyone with any real talent has either been fired or left the company. There are a few great people still here, and it is only a matter of time before they leave.

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5.0
14 Sept 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smart and humble people to work with; great team work within and across departments; lots of opportunity to have impact (it's encouraged); leadership is open to feedback and acts on it promptly; everyone wants each other to be successful; flexibility to work from home and/or office

Cons

It's a growing company in a fast changing industry so things can change and become a bit hectic at times which might not be for everyone

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Vungle Response
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Thank you for the review - we agree that our people are truly some of the best in the industry; and are glad you like the flexibility we now offer all our employees. We are indeed growing and some changes are executed at a very fast pace, but we are also proud of being able to work at speed. Leadership is open to feedback, as you rightly say, so please do continue to share with us. Thank you again.
4.0
27 Sept 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Low ego and collaborative culture. Being proactive will help you get ahead here. From my experience, hard work goes noticed as does humility. There is a lot of opportunity here but, in line with the title, being ambitious and proactive is a key to capitalizing on that opportunity. Since working here I've seen a shift in focus, specifically around product, towards disrupting the big players in mobile advertising. Things may have seemed stagnant from a product perspective some time ago, but the company was experiencing rapid, organic growth. This isn't unique to Vungle but I'm glad it is being addressed. Overall, the culture, opportunity, company trajectory, and collaborative is great here. Typical start up perks include catered lunches, lunch stipend on non-catered days, commuting reimbursement, snacks/food/beer/wine/etc, and gym reimbursement. Pretty impressive for a company of this size.

Cons

Lack of maturity with middle management with respect to professional experience. This isn't to say middle managers are immature, but relatively early in their careers' for the position that they're in. This also doesn't go for everyone, but in certain departments there are people who are still figuring out their path that could be replaced with someone who could add much more value. Some higher level managers/VPs seem to get too caught up in the weeds but that is expected in a business at this stage. Another con would be the lack of data quality & knowledge of legacy systems. For a company this young, obtaining clean data shouldn't be such a struggle. Finally, the ambiguity around high level strategy from top management is somewhat discomforting. I'm confident it doesn't mean bad news but some more transparency would be appreciated.

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