Tapjoy Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Tapjoy full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Great working culture
-Smart & Passionate People

Cons – -No more free lunch :(

Advice to Senior Management – Keep it up!

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

Former Employee – worked at Tapjoy full-time for more than a year

Pros – There are, or were, a lot of bright people in the company but in recent weeks they seem to be acknowledging the rapid deterioration of the culture and are seeking new opportunities.

Cons – Cronyism and poor decisions by under-skilled middle managers has resulted in a teams of immature, inexperienced, and all around lackluster employees.

Advice to Senior Management – It's time to clean house.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Tapjoy full-time

Pros – When I look at the reviews, I have a difficult time understanding some of the complaints. Pretty petty. As far as start-ups go, you will be hard pressed to find better work-life balance than this place. Engineers arrive between 9:30AM-11:00AM, and unless we're drinking/playing beer pong, we're out of the office between 5:00PM-5:30PM. At my last start-up, developers (routinely) worked 80+ hours weeks. As a collective, we have it pretty easy.

Cons – It's not perfect. With a new VP of Engineering on board, things have improved.

Advice to Senior Management – Is it too much to ask for a pool table? :-)

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

Current Employee – been working at Tapjoy full-time for less than a year

Pros – Everyone who asks, "How's work?" I tell them that Tapjoy is my dream job. It allows me to be as creative as I want in an environment where I make a difference. We are in a unique situation where what we do on a daily basis directly affects the company's future. And I'm doing it with other fun and dedicated people, who continuously get credited for their good work.

Cons – Because we are in such a competitive space (with 15 offices globally), there is always work to be done. If you don't want to put in the time and just sit back from 9 to 5, this probably isn't the place for you. With that said, we work hard but are rewarded accordingly.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work. We look to your leadership and trust you are doing what's best for the company.

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

Former Employee – worked at Tapjoy full-time for less than a year

Pros – Hook up free tech gear!!!

Cons – Horrible organizational communication and lack of oversight and accountability for middle-managers....

Advice to Senior Management – Look out for competition... Know who your direct competitors are, here's a clue: it's not Millennial Media or Demand Media lol

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

Current Employee – been working at Tapjoy

Pros – There are still some fantastic and smart people in product, engineering, and design. Fantastic work life balance, and best of all your lunch is reimbursed.

Cons – Unfortunately, those fantastic and smart people are not heard and are being pushed aside. Low morale due to multiple reasons - political culture, early employees leaving, and the possibility of being thrown under the bus (even if you're doing well). Very unqualified product leadership, currently lead by marketing and biz dev.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Tapjoy

Pros – - Most all regular employees are smart, friendly, and driven
- Good work/life balance, liberal work-from-home policy in most departments
- Strong market leader

Cons – - Senior management and execs care more about furthering their own agendas than working for the overall good of the company
- Early employees are on their way out, or have already left. The company has lost its direction and creative force
- Current execs (bizdev and marketing) don't actually have a full grasp of their own product(s) and are changing the company culture from one that fosters creativity and innovation to a dull and bureaucratic one

Advice to Senior Management – Marketing and bizdev needs to be restructured, starting from the top. Get people who actually understand the importance of innovation, and remove people who are here mainly to play a political game.
Tapjoy may be the market leader now, but with the market moving as quickly as it does, any time spent dealing with political shenanigans will be a massive detriment to the overall well being of the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Tapjoy

Pros – Hot industry. A few smart leaders still there.

Cons – Political culture. There is no room for trial and error. No focus on nurturing your career, if you can't help now you are pushed aside. Laying off too many smart good employees because the product is broken. Do your homework before you take a job here.

Advice to Senior Management – If everyone around the company is failing, it isn't the employees fault. Look within, make serious changes at the top specifically sales management and engineering.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Tapjoy

Pros – Some of the top players in engineering, product and marketing are top notch. The product is cool. The market is hot for this type of thing. The office in San Fran is neat. Free snacks, soda. The younger support staff are awesome, very smart and motivated.

Cons – Poor sales management. Lack of vision and clarity of roles are confusing and tough to succeed in. Sales people should be aware of lack of support, and mentality of figure it out yourself. Vision for going public is clouding the culture it once was.

Advice to Senior Management – Clear out sales management, start fresh, realign goals that are realistic and attainable given what should be seen as an obvious sign of what the product can bare. Get the culture back to what it once was, encourage new thinking and reward hard work even if it doesn't equate to direct revenue.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Tapjoy

Pros – Clear industry leader, interesting product and excellent core group of employees who genuinely care about the success of the company. "Work hard play hard" spirit is still going strong and many are still looking out for their colleagues.

Cons – Low employee morale across the whole company, lack of cross-department and top-to-bottom communication and executive shortsightedness. Recent trend of firing allegedly underperforming employees and mass exodus of early employees has lead to an uncomfortably political climate, while leaving the core product to inexperienced hands.

Advice to Senior Management – Constant changes to corporate focus and strategy is sending mixed message to the employees. Marketing department needs to be cleaned out, starting at the top. Tapjoy grew and succeeded as a product focused company, and it's falling behind trying to be a marketing focused company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend