Hopeless Company with Mediocre Middle Layer Management
Pros
- Free food, although they've significantly cut costs after Oath was created. They got rid of all the snacks and cut down the lunch portions. - Free cell phone & plan. - There are still some decent co-workers from the remnants of Yahoo and AOL. But attribution is high, and all the good people are leaving rapidly.
Cons
- It's basically a mess. Their ad tech stack is so clunky and full of bugs. The leaders make stupid decisions of retrofitting existing platforms with features from legacy platforms. Why don't you just take the best features from all of them and build a brand new one from scratch? - Not a tech driven company anymore. It's entirely a sales-dominated culture. Their motto is to just meet the "revenue goal" and throw as many features into a product as quickly as possible with little regards to software quality. - All people do here is have meetings all day long. I don't understand how they can get anything done. - They still keep the quarterly review process where they make you evaluate yourself and assign a score for each objective. You spend all the time writing thoughtful paragraphs, yet the manager doesn't even read them nor does he provide meaningful feedback. He only regurgitates what I wrote word for word. It's pointless. Even if you write a stellar self evaluation with solid facts, you're not going to get proper recognition for the hard work. There is zero potential for career growth. - No more RSU issued post-Oath. The salary increase is measly and doesn't align with the rate of inflation (it's only happened once for the past four years). Effectively, we're making less over time. RSU is now only given to people who got promotions. - No transparency on what's coming. For example, re-orgs happened all of the sudden without prior announcements from the senior management. - No respect for tech talents, because it's just a sales company now. They wouldn't have a clue on how to cultivate you. - Did I mention we have all of these unproductive meetings where people just make desperate attempts to highlight achievements for the week when there really is no progress? - High attrition. Good people are leaving left and right. - Cost cutting on everything, including software licenses you need to do your job.
