Monster Worldwide Reviews

Pros

Good compensation. Advanced technical solutions.

Cons

Poor organization structure - makes simple things complex and slows down overall progress

Advice to Senior Management

When your team is appreciated and is allowed to grow, you too will.

Pros

work life flexibility is good

Cons

too many politics at this place to even begin to explain
compensation lower then may other comparable companies

Pros

Fairly flexible with taking time off
Stability
Good benefits

Cons

Too team dependent, your experience here greatly depends on what team you are on
Dying product
Filtered communications from management

Advice to Senior Management

Get everyone on the same page. Your teams aren't connected and are not encouraged to work together.

Pros

Lots to do, opportunities to learn, good people. Monster has decent upper management and I believe they are trying to do the right things. They continued innovating despite the difficult economy over the past couple of years and tried to be fair to employees.

Cons

Crazy schedules and processes made it hard to do the right thing at times

Advice to Senior Management

Work on development processes and procedures

Pros

It is very easy to get hired!

Cons

No communication! No advancement opportunities! Salary lower than other call centers in the area!

Advice to Senior Management

Get out of your offices and see what is going on in your business!

Pros

1. Good brand name
2. Some of the managers are decent
3. Lot of user data to work with, so good potential on the engineering side
4. Has granted RSUs in the past

Cons

1. Engineering executive team lacks technology vision.
2. Management exhibits a use and throw type of attitude towards employees, where they treat you well if you are working on a key project, else they will ignore you.
3. Pay hikes and bonuses are miniscule.
4. Employee Career Development is largely ignored.

Advice to Senior Management

1. Please treat the employees right - at least the productive ones.
2. Try to offer competitive salaries to keep the best employees around, and try to get some of the best talent on board.

Pros

Townhall style quarterly meetings allowed for employees to feel involved in the overall success of the company.

Cons

The location of the company makes it challenging to retain talent.

Pros

Good compensation and convenient location

Cons

Chauvinistic, predatory culture that originates from the top (CEO) down. Organization is a political nightmare where backstabbing and intimidation is a daily occurrence. Structurally, departments are constantly pitted against one another, creating a cannibalistic culture where they actively undermine each others efforts as a means of justifying their own value to the organization. Executive directives are single mindedly driven by their own self serving agendas, leaving ZERO room for creativity or innovation.

Monster is on a steady course toward self destruction. STAY as far AWAY as possible!!

Advice to Senior Management

Resign immediately

Pros

Control your own success. You can make a nice pay check if you put the work in and do all the right things.

Cons

Monster is a larghe company. Any time you work for a company that large, the smaller details sometimes can get ignored.

Advice to Senior Management

Management is fair and usually on the side their workers. Monster has a lot of credible people running its management. Most of their managers have been on the front line, so they know where their workers are coming from.

Pros

My immediate workgroup was skilled, spirited, and highly intelligent. Our immediate supervisor was very strong, but too many layers down to affect real change.

Cons

Wants to be a global juggernaut and a nimble, risk-taking start-up at the same time. has a tendency to cannibalize itself.

Advice to Senior Management

make a roadmap. stick to it. plan a budget. talk to each other. stop trying to buy your employee love