TechTarget Reviews

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

Good place to start off, soft benefits - bagel wednesdays, relaxed time off plan

Cons

low compensation package, more work than time for in a day

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

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Reliance on outdated technologies and bad implementation of newer ones.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

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

- Great vacation policy (no set number of days a year)
- Very accommodating of parents
- If you need to run an errand, go to the doctor's, or wait for the cable guy there are no hoops to jump through
- Good health insurance
- Energetic, relaxed office environment
- There are some really nice people working there

Cons

- Unless you are in sales, don't expect to matter
- You will be expected to work alot, if you are not willing to put in more than 50 hours you will be considered lazy
- Old boys/frat boy environment
- If you are not very bright but are arrogant and have a swagger you'll do well
- People have been promoted that are in over their heads, you'll find plenty of young 30 somethings as VPs
- Working longer is a substitute for working smarter
- Core problems are not really addressed, symptoms are addressed and solutions are generally band aids
- For a technology company their systems are laughable
- Upper management isn't smart or conservative with spending they are cheap and they aren't willing to spend what is needed to fix some core infrastructure and staffing problems
- Innovation is a joke
- The departments are separated and the fighting amongst them is huge
- Long-time, core, valuable, employees are leaving
- When people leave they are often not replaced but instead someone already overworked is asked to take on the former employees responsibilities
- You'll need to be a favorite to get any recognition

Advice to Senior Management

You are loosing many good people and the folks in the trenches seem to be the only ones who have noticed or care. You need to change the environment from one where the departments compete with each other for everything to one where everyone is working on the same goal. And it would help if you would be clear about what those goals were.

Pros

Smart, talented people. Flexible work arrangements. Generous benefits, especially in terms of time off. Good training programs. Support for entrepreneurial ideas. Strong recognition for success. Generally, fun, positive work environment. Generally, good communication from upper management.

Cons

Salaries are low compared to industry. Many things are disorganized. Several times I have gotten mildly in trouble for not doing something that I had no idea I should do (not in job descrip, never directed to do so, didn't know task existed, etc.). Or you will be told to do something, then get conflicting instructions for doing it. Little documentation exists for many tasks, which is a problem in a place with a fast pace and some turnover, and instructions may be conflciting or outdated.

Advice to Senior Management

Raise salaries. They are low for this market. Easy to say, but to keep talent, it's important. Also emphasize. Improve instructions for how to do things maybew with a good orientation program for new employees.

Pros

--Flexible work schedule
--Nice office
--Young team

Cons

--Management not involved with daily operations, to the point where it's almost non-existent and not enough to actually base a performance review on
--Some micromanagement
--Extremely low pay for the workload
--"Open" work schedule sometimes feels like it's a 24/7 operation since there's no actual schedule.
--High turnover, which leads to doing 2x the amount of work

Advice to Senior Management

The high turnover will continue unless people are better compensated for the work that they do. "Flexible" scheduling shouldn't be a main selling point -- make employees feel as if they are valued to retain this top talent -- a lot of great employees move on when they should be top priority.

Pros

open leave policy, great people, fun environment, relaxed work environment, ability to work from home if need be, good benefits, great job for entry level, can learn alot

Cons

poor compensation, can be very overworked at times and not compensated, hard to move up in the company, poor training, high turnover

Advice to Senior Management

offer better compensation to retain employees, create a better training program for certain departments, the soft benefits def help out and keep people at the company