MySpace Reviews in Los Angeles, CA Area

Pros

New management has taken over and is making a real run at turning this place around.
Morale is the best since I've been around.
The new vision for the site is amazing.
The music catalogue is bigger and better than Spotify and Pandora (and it's free too).
We get free cooked to order lunch everyday.
Fresh ideas that are actually put into action, instead of falling on deaf ears.
Competitive pay and great benefits.

Cons

Historical turnover and layoffs under NewsCorp have hurt morale in the past.
Past mis-management and inter-office politics have given those that work here a bad reputation (however, new management has shown differently).
Previous regime was dead set focused on Futura and now we are all paying for their poor judgement.

Advice to Senior Management

You've shown a great sense of leadership and direction in the short time you have been here. Please stay the course and never forget that the user experience is the most important aspect to regaining our prominence!

Pros

Decent pay and benefits, ability to work remotely. Music team and side of business very exciting with a lot of potential.

Cons

Poor vision of future from senior management team. Part of Newscorp/Fox. UG. A lot of outsourcing led to a fair amount of dissatisfaction among employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Sell off everything but the music piece of the pie. Try for better partnerships with Facebook--you are out of the social networking business, so you might as well.

Pros

From 2005-2007, it was a fun, vibrant atmosphere. Pros include living in California, cutting edge online technology, free lunch, and friendly employees,

Cons

From early-2008 onward (after Facebook took the social networking lead), the party was clearly over. Suddenly there was a complete lack of focus, lack of transparency, and embarrassingly low morale.

Advice to Senior Management

At this point, cut your losses and sell the company. The purchaser should be of a mindset similar to a real estate developer who's purchased a dilapidated building on a good piece of property -- destroy and rebuild.

Pros

People are young and work without pressure. Working hours is short. We have parties with free alcohols very often. Company has dojo for knowledge sharing.

Cons

Web traffic keeps going down and users are switched or switching to facebook. Mass layoff happened few times and everyone is sad about that.

Advice to Senior Management

The leaders do not give direction on where we go especially before and after the layoff. Nobody knows if it is safe to stay.

Pros

Nice place to work.
Nice challenging tasks.
Flexible timings

Cons

Uninteresting Tools.
Not many cons.
Small network

Advice to Senior Management

Nothing. I am satisfied with the management.

Pros

The environment is very laidback. The people in general are very nice and as an Intern I was allowed to sit in a lot of meetings. Interns also have an opportunity for real work experience rather than making copies, answering phones etc. There is a cafe now on the third floor which makes getting lunch convenient. The patio on the 3rd floor has an amazing view of Los Angeles.

Cons

Interns are unpaid and there are cliques in the workplace.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to be more innovative.

Pros

Company is well known. Situated in Beverly Hills.

Cons

No good managers. Management is full of idiots.

Advice to Senior Management

Please change your managing staff

Pros

Despite the product over the past year or two, there are some really talented people who worked or still work for MySpace. If you can find them, make friends with them and you may learn a thing or two.

Cons

There was a time where you could see the passion for the product in all levels of the company. Today, that sense of unity, pride and passion is absent with a large majority of the staff and that attitude is reflected back into the product. While I said one of the pros for working there was that there are really talented people who work at MySpace, but with that comes the fact that there are also a lot of 'cooks in the kitchen' and projects once thought to be a 'game changer' are de-scoped weeks before its release.

Advice to Senior Management

Figure out what your internal processes and structure needs to be and stick with it. Changing every six months leave people disillusioned, frustrated and complacent. Also, empower team people in all departments and let your teams do their job. Stabilize this and the passion may return, and perhaps so will the users.

Pros

Free food, great benefits, friendly environment, great place to network with your coworkers

Cons

poor middle class management, low tier agents often overlooked, work schedules changed without your discretion

Advice to Senior Management

always ask for feedback from your underlings

Pros

Some of the cutting edge stuff used in development, if you get to work on it.
Fancy food on the 3rd floor cafe, if that's important to you.
Flex work hours.

Cons

Poor vision.
Poor inter/intra team communications. Lack of cross team coordination, Lack of accountability. Release dates are picked seemingly arbitrarily and discarded easily without a second thought. Aggressive schedules often lead to inferior product, that supposedly gets pushed to a phase 2 schedule, which never pans out. Usually phase 2 involves a re-architecture.
Managers do not provide any feedback(positive or negative),
Employees are on the edge most of the time,
Information sharing is not encouraged, employees avoid sharing, seemingly it provides them job security.

Advice to Senior Management

develop some management skills.