MasterCard Reviews

Current Employee – been working at MasterCard

Pros – Highly diverse assignments with strong mangament and leadership.

Cons – Managing multiple clients simulateneously may lead to stress.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up good work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at MasterCard

Pros – flexibility, benefits, pay, and environment

Cons – very political with raises and promotions given without merit

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at MasterCard

Pros – Exciting, current industry with great learning opportunities

Cons – Lack of transparency from middle management

Advice to Senior Management – This is a credit card company. Business owners should be using a MasterCard to make all corporate purchases.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at MasterCard

Pros – The work environment is great. The work is challenging and enjoyable.

Cons – Not everyone outside of MasterCard / Visa understands how the credit card industry works. AMEX and Discover is similar but different business model within the credit card industry.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the growth of the various payment products across the world. Keep educating the public and governments on the credit card and payment card products and business model.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at MasterCard

Pros – Smart and open people. Whit a good manager, that place is THE place.
Dynamic and ever-changing place.
IPO still generates hard feelings

Cons – Promotions are very political. If you do not have a good manager than it can be difficult.

Advice to Senior Management – Promote internal cooperation for the benefit of the customer.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at MasterCard

Pros – MasterCard was a great place to intern. We had a small intern group spread across many different areas of the company, but our departments and HR made sure we felt welcome and integrated into the organization. They have really thought through their internship program and had weekly educational sessions focusing on resume writing, knowledge about the bank, personal strengths, etc. We even visited the floor of the NYSE! The hours were great, the work was not overwhelming and was appropriate for my level of work experience at the time, and my coworkers were infinately helpful. Overall, the atmosphere and people were just perfect for me.

Cons – It was a sophmore internship, so it is not like other financial internships where you can expect a fulltime offer after the internship. Really, other than that, I can't think of one negative thing.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep on doing what you're doing, it seems to be working!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at MasterCard as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Great culture -- organization is quite flat
Company shares information readily with employees. Great information network internally.
Good benefits especially for employees with families

Cons – There seems to be more of senior management -- might be nice to have more younger employees considering it's a tech company

Advice to Senior Management – Perhaps it would be good to put more eggs in the innovation side

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at MasterCard as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Awesome team and a very casual and open working style

Cons – Offshore model with means having several positions being filled by SOWs

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at MasterCard full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Payments industry leader, innovative organization

Cons – Cannot think of any at this time

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to reduce the bureaucracy

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at MasterCard full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Great CEO who pushes people out of their comfort zone and challenges the status quo
- Good pay, along with good benefits
- Slowly changing the way the company is operating by becoming more technology driven. Huge plus.
- Focus on innovation, youth, and a multigenerational workforce
- Culture is significantly improving by being more transparent

Cons – - There are too many people there resistant to change
- A strong network of people who've been there 15+ years
- Takes forever to get something basic done; no one wants to take accountability or ownership of anything

Advice to Senior Management – Please LISTEN to what the CEO has to say. If you can't do the job, step down and let someone more capable do it OR if you don't want to, tap into fresh perspective and not your network who've been there 15+ years. Change cannot happen this way. Look forward to seeing MasterCard achieving great things in the future!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company