MNTN Reviews

I waited to post wondering if it mattered, and asked myself was I being mean by sharing a not so great review. At the end of the day, this is just my opinion, so I decided to share a bit. A major struggle is there wasn’t ever any real direction as far as a roadmap or plan to focus on, projects changed daily depending on what discussions took place after “Jedi” meetings. If you were in the circle of those who were trusted and loved, life was great, until it wasn’t. Still not sure when the shift happens, but similar to a light switch, one is beloved, and then let go. Working along side many brilliant people, and for the most part many do want what was best for the company, the problem was that the company wasn’t sure what it wanted. Lots of moving pieces and personalities and not in the way that you’re thinking“maybe you’re just not professionally experienced.” Watching other employees get promoted based on length of time with the company, which part of me gets, but in this day and age it just feels odd, watching incredible employees leave rather quickly after they noticed that there was no way they could grow there, and watching someone who I thought was extremely special get kicked to the curb after one of our quarterly off-sites. They left so quickly, I’m still not sure what happened, but they were unique and seemed to care about others. This place may work for some, if you’re able to put your head down and just get your paycheck, this could work for you. But if you’re in a place where culture matters, morals matter, being authentic matters, you will struggle here.

Most people working there including the CSuite-started young and have limited outside experience in this space. They hired a handful of people from big tech, however, most big tech people who were hired- left or were let go when they began questioning - or trying to implement anything that would resemble true performance - which is a strong signal of who MNTN is in this space. High employee churn and the engineering team is like 20 people. They also just laid off like 40 people under the term "reorg." The original C Suite spends most of their time trying to protect themselves from anyone who can see they are underqualified to do their jobs through fraternity-style politics and underhanded behavior. The only people who truly liked working there and stayed were the original group from the previous company. They spend most of their time protecting each other. The COO is your typical pompous millennial bro; but with zero tech street cred or any viable business skills who insists everyone agree with him that MNTN is going to be "the next Facebook." Totally insane given MNTN has been around for like 13 years under a previous name and has very few developers or engineers. Most of the staff were customer support and platform specialists and salespeople selling a product they know did not work and had zero confidence in. Constant client complaints about underperformance and over-promising. Clients also questioned the data. Because MNTN gives them no way to do a/b testing there is no way for a client to determine the accuracy of the performance or data. It appeared that they were trying to make as much money as possible off of people who did not know better. They specifically targeted small to mid-sized companies and avoided larger companies who were on to their game. Partners like Hulu and others ended their contracts. Ultimately the company is run by people who are not qualified to lead and operate in this space, Their competitors will surely put them out of business.