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Fast growing company experiencing growing pains - Anonymous employee Vungle Employee Review

4.0
10 Jul 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Having worked at the company for 3 years, I felt obliged to write a review. In recent weeks I have seen some reviews of Vungle that do not match my experience at the company. I wanted to share my view of the company. Huge growth trajectory and building a reputation as a company to watch out for. Excellent opportunities to grow with a company that is scaling. Very strong Sales team building and enhancing relationships with clients every day. Strong Product Leader shipping new product features and innovations that will drive further growth. A market leading differentiator in Vungle Creative Labs. Excellent perks and great opportunities to interact with colleagues based in multiple continents. Great pool of talent. The hiring process uncovers people that demonstrate a set of attributes that help define the term 'Vungler'.

Cons

Fast growth naturally comes with growing pains. Some people are able to excel in this environment, others seem not to thrive. Varying levels of engagement and culture depending upon the region. Can be long days and weeks, which may not suit everyone. Depending on the department you work for, not all employees feel at the front and centre of the growth and the successes. Personal development and training is an area that needs more time investment to nurture a consistent set of Managers across all departments and all regions. Decision making takes too long, but when decisions are made the bets pay off.

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5.0
14 Sept 2022
Anonymous employee
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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
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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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