Pros
I work in the London office on the Freewheel Markets side of the business and have seen the company go through many pointless "restructures". Take anything leadership say with a pinch of salt. + Some people are nice and lovely to work with + Nice office with a rooftop for use in the summer + Stability and comfort because it's a large company + Free Sky TV + Great benefits + Getting fired is almost impossible. There are some people working there that contribute nothing and are still in senior positions +Flexibility to WFH, although in some teams this is frowned upon + Relaxed environment depending on what team you're on. Some people don't even show up to work on time/bother coming in (some senior leadership are like this) + Work is easy and slow – you can coast here and just “get by” which many of us do. Low targets so easy bonuses (sales team) + We have a good Ad Server with a few good customers + Nice kitchen with a foosball table. You can play FIFA all day and no one cares
Cons
- We have way too many internal meetings, where most of them are utterly useless - Teams are siloed and there is animosity between the market’s teams. Teams fighting over who does what - International teams don’t get on. US wants to deprecate the legacy SSP, whereas the International teams want to keep it. No one knows what to do - LOTS of politics stemming from the acquisition of StickyAds. Senior management that have stayed through the acquisition are lazy and don’t do anything. As a result, it can be a toxic environment to work in - Salary lower than market average - Product & platform is a complete dinosaur. We can’t keep up with the competition because we’re too slow to release any new features - Those that have built the legacy product are very protective over it - There is absolutely no strategy from the Leadership team on how to move forwards. They have a great vision (“Flywheel”) but no idea of how to get there. It’s all talk, no movement - Some people are incredibly incompetent and lazy, so don’t expect to learn much - There is company restructure guaranteed every 6 months which brings no positive changes - Some people are given promotions that they don’t deserve. There is clear favouritism - We’ve just had a round of layoffs and yet the people who contribute nothing are still here!! - We can’t decide if we are a start-up or a corporate. Lots of red tape and slow movement - HR team can be unhelpful at times - Don’t expect to know anyone outside of the section of the office you work in