Cool tech. Very disorganized. - Anonymous employee MediaMelon Employee Review

2.0
May 18, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Compensation is so-so - People are generally nice - Cool technology (in theory) - Decently flexible schedule (in theory)

Cons

- SUPER disorganized. No one knows what's going on (after four months, I was still finding new people that work for us, and it's a 20 person company), sales get stalled when the engineers don't respond to customer questions (and sales people are told not to respond at all after engineers are brought in), no one even seems to know who's going to be in the office on a certain day (I've even come in several times and been unable to unlock the door). - No formal training or introduction, but you get blamed when you do something in a way other than what the CEO or one of the managers wants. - CEO and other managers are often at odds with vision, branding, priorities, and how they want things done, so be prepared to hear completely different things from different people, and told to ignore what the other party is telling you. - CEO puts hard limits on what he wants people doing, so some things don't get done even if other employees could easily do them. - Pay is very inconsistent. One of our sales/marketing guys waited for over a month after his payment was due to be paid, and was killed in overdrafts by his bank for being unable to pay bills. - CEO isn't a bad guy, but tries to do everyone's job and doesn't manage at all. This causes a lot of stuff to fall through the cracks (ex. payment, responding to questions, responding to customers, getting clear answers from engineering, etc.) - Responsibilities are often unclear, or CEO gives very specific directions and then blames you when those directions did not produce the result he wanted. ***Be warned about promised benefits. All new "employees" (as far as I am aware) in the last several months have initially believed to be coming on as full employees but were instead brought on as contractors (some were told they would be on as contractors but then transitioned to employee status, but this has never happened), without the benefits that being a full employee would entail.

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Pros

1. Great people. The key people in the company and the CEO are focused and smart. They work well together and have good relationships in the industry. 2. Good execution. They have some very large deals in place with major carriers and are executing very well. They also have some good financial backers but they have not marketed these things as much. 3. Interesting market at the intersection of technology and media - Making internet videos play better for various devices is of growing importance.

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