MediaMind Reviews

Pros

Exposure to and involvement with leading industry technology
Freedom and flexibility to spearhead initiatives
Strong support and generous recognition from managers

Cons

Growth rate can be difficult to keep up with
Company doesn't always get the recognition it deserves as a great place to work

Advice to Senior Management

Continue building the cohesiveness the company has started to enjoy over the last couple of years
Don't let the Googles of the world keep you down!

Pros

Casual setting that fosters creativity, team work and innovation.
Monthly company meetings with food, drinks, updates and games promote team spirit
Surround yourself with some of the most brilliant minds in digital marketing
Always something new to learn and get excited about.
Stocked kitchen with fresh food and snacks

Cons

sometimes all the conference and meeting rooms will be in use when you need one.
building elevator can be slow

Pros

Sales Teamwork - Info Coordination Fast & Fluid
Breadth of Contacts Unsurpassable - Great for Network building
Recognition of Champions & Best of Breed Employees
Stress is Less than working on Agency or Client side
Product Leadership

Cons

Global Management overwhelmed with managing number of territories
HR Department understaffed
Global 'cookie cutter' approach to local market adaptation
High Churn of Staff
Salary Packages - hard to improve
Disorganised Senior Management (Roles & Responsibilities)

Advice to Senior Management

Read the advice given by investor analysts - HR drives a Service Organisation.
When trying to retain Talent, Salaries should be key.
Controlling Cost and expecting Speedy deployment at local levels contravenes the logic of both decisions.

Pros

A great team to work with and a great boss giving you clear roles and responsibilities that enables you to act independently.

Cons

Knowledge sharing for personal development and growth has been slow and insufficient among offices. Clear strategies for market development have not been formulated and resulted in less support from regional offices.

Advice to Senior Management

Strategic development and integration among offices need to be improved to enhance a more efficient flow in business and support.

Pros

Good benefits, innovative, and with some really intelligent people. They change fast in a fast changing industry.
Depending on the position there is travel involved, and management is flexible and understanding.

Cons

Organizationally dysfunctional with brick wall communication. Interdepartmental unity isn't always there and the culture isolates the power base to a small group and can be very exclusionary.

Advice to Senior Management

Speak honestly to your employees

Pros

Interesting from professional point of view
Relatively innovative
Young, informal (no dress code etc)

Cons

Company provides low career opportunities - management positions are occupied by a long-time employees, so new employee doesn't have many chances to be promoted even if he is real superstar.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior management should provide more career opportunities to the company employees, share more information, be more innovative (adopt new technologies that would save expenses)

Pros

Compensation and benefits. They have to pay to have people to get them to work there and keep them.

Cons

This is the worst place I've ever worked in. I will absolutely stay away from a Israeli companies in the future. The commucation is wayyyy offff. Their notion of truth and reality is crazy. It's no wonder why there's no peace in the middle east. Another employee had to give me a religious explaination of the people by telling me the Israelis wandered the desert for 40 years for a trip that should have taken 12 days. Well that's exactly what it's like to work there. If management tells you A ---just believe it's B. People hang out there for the pay and now due to the current economic times but the management is not to be believed.

Advice to Senior Management

Maybe get a very basic understanding of how managers and businesses are suppose to run in the US. Hey, how about hiring some Americans to help you run the company since they know what it should look and feel like.

Pros

It's international so you get to brag about that for exactly one second until you realize they think international means Israel only.

Cons

Too many changes, too quickly. It's as if they make stuff up when they arrive in the morning. It's really clear to all of us that they are dead but just don't know it.

Advice to Senior Management

Try and "act" like you care for us. It goes a long way. You might find that all your money is coming from the US and not your home country. It would not hurt for all of you to take some basic management classes that tell you how manage. They only have had one or two managers who knew this and they have all left the company.

Pros

Eyeblaster was a great starting place in the online advertising industry.

Cons

During my time at the company there was extremely high turnover (over 75%), which didn't seem to change after my departure. There is absolutely zero opportunity for advancement opportunities due to the company's small position in the market place as solely a rich media and ad serving vendor.

Advice to Senior Management

Americans feel like outsiders at this company.

Pros

a fast developing company in the promising emerging market of online advertising, if pushing useless products and spamming web pages is to your liking, then this is the place for you,.

Cons

horrible human relation, the worse i have ever seen, management located in Israel, and culturally do not understand American sensibilities. decision making is arbitrary, and at the same time absolute, no ifs or buts. put simply its managed like an army platoon, and a real nasty platoon at that.

Advice to Senior Management

when the only measure you have is company bottom line growth i suppose they are doing their designated job.
But on every other skill, they are sub par, basic leadership skills are hard to learn, few posses it. the senior management needs to be replaced. they are beyond help