TechTarget Reviews in Boston, MA Area

Pros

great place to work, first job out of school loved it, amazing.....still talk to people over there and they are doing well

Cons

go to big too fast, still have nothing bad to say, was an amazing experience would do it over again

Advice to Senior Management

i wouldnt say anything differently. it was an amazing opportunity and loved every minute being there. great experience, still kee an eye on their progrss

Pros

Great people, relaxed work environment, open leave policy, free bagels on Wed, free coffee, tea water and sodas

Cons

The salaries are really low compared to the amount of work you put in, open leave policy works adversly as people feel guilty for taking time off

Advice to Senior Management

Pay your employees more or you will continue to have high turnover

Pros

No formalized time-off policy.
Ability to work from home.
Free water and soft drinks.
No dress code to speak of

Cons

Often, the "Work harder, not smarter" adage comes to mind.

Ever since the big lay-off in December a couple of years ago, it has been more work with fewer people and less money for the effort.

TechTarget loves to hand out Titles in lieu of salary . Depending on which department you are in, you can be a Manager or Director within 2 or 3 years (regardless of age or ability). Lots of self important people with titles strutting around.

Increased demand (from managers / directors) to work in the office despite the company's public declarations to the contrary.

Like to tout the "50 Best Places to Work" and “Globe 100’s Top Places to Work" - They are constantly hounding employees to fill out those surveys.

Reliance on outdated technologies and bad implementation of newer ones. Constant outages of internal applications and public facing websites.

Advice to Senior Management

Evaluate why many of your experienced long time employees have left (either pushed or left of their own volition). Seems to be a trend, no?

Pros

Best learning experience, atmosphere, collaboration, organization, benefits, knowledge aquired

Cons

Terrible compensation, terrible management style in one particular group where the manager would treat their subordinates like crap

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees, re-evaluate certain unprofessional managers who may produce results but turnover employees too soon and too often

Pros

If you need to work at home or away from office TT is extremely flexible and accommodating. Good place for young folks to get trained, get skills and get out.

Cons

Cheap, cheap, cheap. Squeeze every nickel. Penny wise and pound foolish

Advice to Senior Management

Encourage better editorial with financial incentives. The only people who make a good living here are in sales or at the very top of editorial.

Pros

The flexible work schedule and generous benefits were probably the highlights.

Cons

The workforce for certain departments skews pretty young, so if you find office chatter about who did what with who last weekend it can be annoying.

Advice to Senior Management

do a view source on a techtarget.com website page and checkout all the whitespace there, figure out a way to get rid of that and you'll save on bandwidth costs and speed up browser rendering of the sites.

Pros

Team environment. Flexible work environment.

Cons

Heavy workload with average pay.

Advice to Senior Management

Implement performance-based bonus program.

Pros

TechTarget has the best work/life balance of anywhere I've ever been. The autonomy you are given is incredibly refreshing, especially when coming from a larger corporation where things are micromanaged to the point of being counterproductive. No set vacation/personal/sick days - if you need to take a day it's yours to take - if you want to go on vacation you'll rarely run into any push back - need to work from home - no problem. Given, you are expected to perform and perform at a high level, but it is up to you as to how you choose to accomplish that. The majority of people working there are very smart and driven which, for the most part, promotes a very dynamic and collaborative work environment. The organization is very flat when it comes to communication, whether you're an entry level employee or a middle or senior manager, your ideas will be heard and seriously considered, and often times implemented.

For anyone looking to gain real world work experience quickly, TechTarget is the perfect place to do so - most new employees are thrown into the fire right off the bat which makes for a sink or swim type of atmosphere - which is really in line with the type of people and culture that define the organization. If this isn't your style, or you want someone to hold your hand for the first 6 months you're there don't bother going on the interview - I look at this as a pro but I can see how some may consider this a con. If you want to learn, build your skills, develop as a professional and work with people who have the same desires this is a wonderful place to do it.

Cons

The main con here is the pay - from my experience people are typically underpaid considerably when compared to what the lowest average salary for the same position would be almost anywhere else. Depending on what your salary actually is this can be a make or break con. For some, the "soft" benefits mentioned above may even this out but for others it may cause these benefits to lose their luster. This might be more of an issue with current employees who have risen through the ranks while not receiving the appropriate compensation along the way - but it should definitely be something to be aware of as you consider a position here, because in a year or two this will be you and most likely you will not be receiving the salary increase you deserve.

The issues with compensation often lead to losing good people which makes for fairly consistent turnover, which often results in you not only doing your job, but covering another position (or 2) until someone new is hired.

To a lesser extent, and coming from a marketing perspective, sales completely runs this company. Given, sales is what drives any organization but there are times where it feels like the inmates are running the asylum - despite many attempts - there is absolutely no collaborative relationship between sales and marketing. To that end marketing input and suggestions seem to be provided for the sole purpose of watching sales completely disregard said input and suggestions. In fact, more often than not, it feels like the two departments are at odds with one another. Take that for what's its worth and how it might relate to the position you're thinking of taking.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay closer attention to who is really adding value to your group and compensate them fairly and in a timely manner in order to retain them - not only for that individual, but for the good of their group, the people they work with and the company as a whole.

Overall you've created a wonderful place to work which, aside from a few of the cons I've mentioned, is why it's consistently rated as one of the best places to work in Boston.

Pros

Work/life balance
Great atmosphere of teamwork
Ability to drive your own career
Good ideas and feedback are usually listened to

Cons

No management/career path for senior people
Low pay
Advancement and salary tied to profit of your specific division/group, rather than individual performance

Advice to Senior Management

Worry more about reader needs and pleasing readers than pleasing advertisers. When we can be faithful to our audience, the money will follow.

Pros

Management support of telecommuting; young, hip employees; good compensation and benefits; fun annual company meetings

Cons

Online news/journalism market is brutal: continual deadlines, lots of marketing fluff to wade through, business outlook is uncertain at best... not to mention that covering IT news is just not very meaningful in the larger sense.

Advice to Senior Management

If Google offers to buy TechTarget, your only response should be: "Where do I sign?" Don't be a Groupon!