Connexus Reviews in Mountain View, CA

Pros

Online marketing is a growth industry, even in the current economic climate.

They used to have good benefits (100% paid health care premiums).

The California offices are nicely equipped with good restaurants nearby and plenty of parking. The Mountain View office is right on Castro Street, which is a fun place at night and good for lunches. The El Segundo office is right next to LAX, great for traveling.

There are some very smart people still working there, some of the business unit leaders in particular are well known in the industry and doing Good Stuff.

Unfortunately, this list used to be a lot longer.

Cons

Terrible politics at the top level.

The CEO plus board seem to be running a different business to the rest of the company.

Too many reorganizations and changes. For instance, they refitted the LA office to make it smaller and save some money and then decided to make LA the head office, which is now overflowing with staff while Mountain View is half empty.

Lots of money is still being made on socially dubious offers like pay day loans, etc. They are also active in the incentivized marketing space, which was investigated by the FTC last year. Connexus were not investigated as they followed the rules and actually fulfilled their offers but it left a cloud over that part of the industry.

HR department is awful, very aggressive with ex-employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Change the CEO and sell yourself to someone who is winning in your spaces.

Pros

They operate in a very interesting industry . . . Internet advertising is rapidly growing and you get an opportunity to learn at the company.
You can advance your career and get paid very well - if you are good - because of the amount of change at the company.
There are some very talented, experienced people working there.

Cons

Lots of re-organizations.
The CEO and board are disengaged from the business. They don't have a good sense for what the company does well and what it will take for the company to do better.

Advice to Senior Management

Fire the CEO.