MFour Reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(102 total reviews)

Chris St. Hilaire

65% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

MFour has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 102 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MFour employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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102 reviews
1.0
27 Mar 2018

Not what it seems

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Nice/new office - People are generally friendly

Cons

- Portrays a startup culture, easy going mentality. In reality, they are no different than a typical life-sucking corporate entity. - Employees are NOT judged by the quality of their work. Perception and politics rule. - Lots of nepotism, very incestuous. All the C levels came from the same company, thus, all have each other's backs no matter what. - Lots of favoritism. - Very clique-ish - Backstabbing and gossip. Expect to be thrown under the bus at some point for any reason. - Benefits are terrible. 1-week vacation? - They preach innovation but there's little to no opportunity to do so. - Culture of meetings. There are meetings to talk about other meetings, etc. - We're being told to dominate the market research industry, but in reality, C levels and upper management lack market research industry knowledge. - New workflow processes and products put in place don't really make sense from a user's perspective. - Upper management tracks your online search history, and what time you arrive and leave. - Pay is VERY substandard. - Future investor support is questionable. Only 5M capital procured last year, which was wasted on a satellite office that no one hears about, and trivial things like 3 big holographic screens. - 0 to 2.5% raise without annual review is professionally insulting. - Witnessed upper management yelling and cursing inappropriately at employees. - Bosses are just task managers, not mentors, and definitely, don't have your best interests in mind. - No opportunity to learn new skills. People who will teach have no time or aren't allowed due to adherence to processes. - No upward mobility. The only promotions are the upper management promoting themselves with loftier titles. - Just not a good place to work whatsoever. Lots of negative energy. If you're not a lifer or the boss' favorite, the snacks and good vibes from fellow employees only last so long. The job market is pretty good right now, you should definitely look elsewhere.

2.0
18 Jan 2016

Great Employees - Bad Leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

2 stars because of employees - Good people, hard working. Employees make the company. They are dedicated but paid way less than they are worth (or industry average). Surprised the employees haven't realized this.

Cons

Leadership is great if you like dictatorships. Favoritism runs rampant - if you are the CEO's favorite of the month - you can do no wrong. Don't expect a personal life - employees are always expected to respond to emails / be connected - even when on vacation. Yelling at managers in front of their staff is standard practice. The best idea is always the CEO's idea. If you like a culture of repression, low pay, and fake relationships, this is the place for you.

1.0
31 Jul 2019

GET OUT

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Pros

Most of all of the employees that are not senior executives are really great people.

Cons

Where to begin? Let's start at the top with a CEO that fancies himself to be the next Steve Jobs but is absolutely clueless about tech. He would have just as hard of a time spelling "API" as he would defining it, and beyond his fundamental lack of understanding about how his products work, he has the attention span of a recently lobotomized gerbil. Major projects and company initiative end nearly as quickly as they begin. Normally a competent team would be able to weather such storms if he didn't insist that all decisions were made by him. He has an incredibly heavy hand in all teams yet has very little interest for the details and experience that those teams have. If complete incompetence wasn't enough, he openly runs a culture of fear and favoritism. If you're not one of those he considers "cool," you may as well start counting your days or come to grips with the fact that you're never going to advance your career at the company. In regards to fear, employees are regularly fired on a whim for questioning decisions (while also ironically boasting about transparency) or having differences of opinions. Company wide meetings have been hijacked by diatribes about poor Glassdoor reviews along with closed door meetings asking employees if they wrote certain reviews. He also holds open disdain for his customers, lamenting that customers are set in their ways in an industry ripe for disruption. He is disinterested in customer feedback and prefers to have products built to his vision rather than building a customer-centric product (especially ironic given that it's a MARKET RESEARCH COMPANY). And even if you were still not convinced by anything said above, compensation is dismal. Unlimited PTO is about the only benefit that is meets market average. Expect pay 20-30% below market average and expensive health premiums with non-transparent bonuses (if they are given to begin with). Equity is reserved for those in senior positions or his personal favorites in the company.

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