Fox Interactive Reviews

Pros

Great benefits, awesome people, bleeding edge tech, knowledgeable staff. Team is relatively young which works hard and plays hard. Technology is bleeding edge and freedom is given to developers to build apps the way they want. Overall a great company where great relationships were built.

Cons

Hierarchy is hard to break. The company usually hires management or promotes selected members of the group. This is not so much of a downside because the company takes the work and word of each member seriously.

Pros

Nice offices, friendly people, great city.

Cons

Traffic, congestion, high price of housing.

Advice to Senior Management

See the employees skills and allow them to help the company thrive.

Pros

Good Benefits. Reasonably comparable compensation for the industry

Cons

Questionable Business Ethics & Slow Career progression.

Pros

- good brand
- great resources
- positioned well in the market

Cons

- senior management pre-occupied by the whims of executive leadership
- too much reliance on business development to determine what products and markets to enter
- no transparency of brand/business objectives

Pros

The mid-upper management is very amiable and understanding. They tend to have a lax environment and treat everyone fairly. They're not micro-managing you and as long as you get what you need to get done, done, everything is smooth as molasses.

Cons

I believe budget allocation for raises were skewed. They take care of the people up top but are okay with turnover below. Nothing new.

Advice to Senior Management

Fight for the people who work for you. You do a great job of treating us with respect and at times, I understand we're easily replaceable. However, I do believe in work, replacing someone is sometimes a lot more difficult and to makeup the chemistry a team has is sometimes not worth the extra 1% you aren't giving to your workers.

Pros

company do provide Free lunch

Cons

advanced opporunity is very limited

Advice to Senior Management

less politic

Pros

Fast paced environment that was always challenging! Great people to work with!

Cons

Management breakdown in communication, corporate and size made it hard to make an impact.

Advice to Senior Management

Management and leadership while optimistic at times, there were more finger pointing on the negative and very little focus on the positive!

Pros

Cool and interesting brands and after awhile the name did mean something. It really had the opportunity to go somewhere and be a major player in the segment

Cons

Poor Senior leadership from the President down to the head of HR. They were too self involved to really make the company what it could have been, but never will. Which is way too bad because they did attract a great number of very high caliber talent, that either got frustrated and left or was let go for trying to do the right thing

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the overly broated HR group and install division heads that are more interested in making the business work than how they look at the next photo op

Pros

Casual Work Environment and Great group of people. Have the option to work from home some days, and the Pay is pretty good if you negotiate it from the beginning.

Cons

The job isn't very challenging and isn't for everyone. Its tough times so moral is pretty low because of the lay offs.

Advice to Senior Management

There should be more of a team focus, everyone is kind of doing there own thing and looking out for themselves. There is a lot of unmotivated people out there so it would be good to push them to work towards a good goal.

Pros

Generally able to do your own thing, but that might have been a function of my position

Cons

Oppressive corporate culture led by a lot of cold media mogul types that thought of technology as a commodity, not a craft. A good place to work if you are a media executive, bad place for development, which strikes me as a dangerous combination for a company predicated on a direct-to-consumer technical product.

Advice to Senior Management

Looks like MySpace is making the right moves under Owen van Netta. There is a whole lot of fat to be cut at that place.