Vantaggi
+ Mediamonks has one of the most comprehensive health benefits packages I’ve seen, including family planning and mental health benefits. Worth one star on its own. + Their client list looks good on a resume/portfolio (if that sort of thing is important to you) + They seem to embrace a hybrid work environment where you’re able to work remotely or in the office at your discretion which I find to be ideal. + I genuinely enjoy the agency culture here. There are plenty of social events, skill development sessions, etc. and the people here are generally chill, smart and cool to work with. However, the company is so large that bad accounts/demanding clients can overwrite the “chill” vibe so your mileage may vary.
Svantaggi
- A lot of the clients are needlessly demanding and this adds an unnecessary amount of difficulty managing scope and changes within a project. Clients typically don’t understand and properly identify KPIs and objectives when scoping projects and this causes lots of scope creep during projects. This translates into late nights and weekends for some teams. - As others have mentioned, this place went on a mass-acquisition spree so there are a lot of operational process knots that have to be untangled that cause a lot of unnecessary slow down on projects. - This place loves meetings. Internal meetings. External meetings. Every project you’re on has a standup, a check-in, a client status, a tech status, and that’s not counting the meetings you may have with individual teams just to get the work done. You can easily spend half of your week sitting in meetings here and wonder how you’re expected to get your work done. - A lot of people are burned out here. I think that MM does their best to fight burnout and while they certainly try to support employees that need a break (they do allow comp days and there are tons of resources internally), I don’t believe they address the root cause (bad clients, bad projects, staffing issues, etc)