MySpace Reviews

Pros

The work is pretty straight-forward. Myspace gives you the opportunity to work somewhat independently in this role. Goals are clearly set for the department and it is your job to meet those goals. If you are not reaching full potential, you will be informed. I liked working in a fun, youthful environment. The dresscode is fairly liberal and most things are accepted. You are allowed to listen to music while you work. Great for artists looking for swing shifts or night shifts. It gives you time to work on your true passion, but puts enough in your pocket to keep you sane. It is also good for singles and parents looking to make some extra money using their free-time.

Cons

Limited mobility out of customer care department. I ididn't feel as if it would be an easy jump from one dept to another at Myspace. You work at a secondary office not the main office where most of the magic happens.

Advice to Senior Management

n/a

Pros

Great location in Beverly Hills, good lunching opportunities, casual dress, recreation room, decent tools to work with.

Cons

Lack of vision, poor communication from senior management, arbitrary rewards and recognition, cronyism, focus on getting things done over building a trusting, team-based culture.

Advice to Senior Management

Buy yourself back from Fox. Bring in change consultants. Write a vision/mission statement and make sure it is plastered all over the walls. Give people a reason to want to work at MySpace aside from the money or padding a resume. Innovate. Beat competitors at their own game. Focus on social networking as much (or more) than shoving content down people's throats. Make MySpace friendships meaningful, not shallow and happenstance. Improve collaboration functionality. Clean up the UI.

Mike Jones appears to be attempting to make some improvements, but it's an uphill battle. He seems to get it more than the previous CEOs and I wish him luck.

Pros

We're still developing against the latest tech and the people here can work great as a team when the right project comes along.

Cons

Strategy is still undefined and the culture has taken a major hit over the past few years.

Advice to Senior Management

New executive management should take advice from the current employees before announcing organization and strategy changes.

Pros

Had free lunch before but no more :(
Benefits are just average, not great, but not bad either.
People working with you are great.

Cons

Didn't feel my work was recognized.
Didn't have a good chance to be promoted although I have done a lot for the team.

Advice to Senior Management

Hope the higher management are right when make those changes to the company. A lot of tenured people have left, so there is no more goats to blame.

Pros

Myspace has over 350 million users and access to a wide variety of content including streaming music and music videos. It's still the most popular place for musicians and actors to create pages.

Cons

Traffic has at best been holding steady. Many employees are still waiting for direction from the new management team and considering alternatives if things don't work out. The standard machine for a software developer is underpowered. The health care plan is not competitive with what other companies are offering.

Advice to Senior Management

Do fewer things better. Invest in good equipment and good health care for your employees. Get rid of overinflated job titles.

Pros

- excellent benefits package
- co-workers are intelligent and fun
- ability to work for hundreds of millions of users

Cons

- low morale
- atmosphere is very similar to a convalescent home
- internal communication is non-existent
- lack of company direction

Advice to Senior Management

it's too late

Pros

Really great peers.
Flexible hours.
Used to have free lunches.

Cons

Once one's role is decided, it is very hard to take on new responsibilities or projects.
0% of promotions are from within.
No direction to company as a whole.

Advice to Senior Management

As a social networking site, there should be a company culture that promotes social interaction.

Pros

You get to say you worked at Myspace and you get free coffee and tea. You also get to surf Myspace all day long.

Cons

There's a reason why Myspace is going down the tube for a lack of a better phrase: management here is outdated -- I really have no idea how the people in management got their positions.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop with the dictatorship and lame B squad management styles. It's 2010, stop being a dinosaur. Oh and don't try to limit internet surfing for your employees. It's 2010 - we can multi-task.

Pros

fantastic people, especially those just below top execs. fascinating industry, in the center of american pop culture. great energy and opportunities to wear many hats and gain experience in many different areas.

Cons

poor internal communications, always having to justify/defend the negative aspects of the site and the company's strategic choices to partners, lack of clear/defined strategy on the part of execs leaves you often guessing or waiting for feedback/approval

Advice to Senior Management

i left just before new management arrived so i can't really speak for the current state of things, but as far as i can tell the restructuring/focusing that owen's doing now should have been done long, long ago.

Pros

Very happening and cool atmosphere to work , You will learn a lot from veteran Coders, they are bugs of internet and know lots about we securities

Cons

Its going down because of their business model, too much of ad is kiilling the site also they need to reinvent someof this things

Advice to Senior Management

remove the useless ads, Myspace music is gr8... rebrand every thing and release all at same time , not one by one