Questionable leadership - Anonymous employee Rokt Employee Review

1.0
Feb 11, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Office Perks - GKO (Global Kick Off) every year at desirable resort locations (Texas, Bahamas) - Working with talented individuals that you can learn from

Cons

- Management is often clueless about the people they're evaluating and performing reviews upon. They don't interact or work with you on a personal level but have no qualm talking about what your performance is expected to be or what your character is like. You can expect your career evaluation to be total theater where the final result is often disappointing without any transparency or oversight into the decisions. - Career ladder is entirely pointless - the company goes into such detail about what the criteria for success is, but reading it is a waste of time because the main focus for career progression is output, nothing else. In fact, I would argue that output isn't as important as conveying to the team that you work with that what you're doing is "essential" and "important". Work at Rokt is definitely political. - You could literally use AI to do your job and get promoted because the outputs are flashy and visual but do not provide any substance for the company at scale. Management misses the mark on this and they wonder why they're missing their revenue targets. - Hiring freeze: listen, you can hire a bunch of new university graduates to do the work, but don't be surprised that the output has gone significantly down because the actual productive hires are spending too much time babysitting the rest of the team. If Rokt was genuinely concerned about employee retention they should just hire competent people to do the work instead of discriminating against age and experience.

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5.0
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Cons

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2.0
Jun 24, 2026
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Pros

The paycheck was on time. The infrastructure didn't get in my way technically.

Cons

•Ideas I brought up in meetings were routinely dismissed, only to see the exact same ideas approved weeks later when repeated by someone within the inner circle. •Meaningful projects consistently went to those already tied into the right connections, and it was clear capability had little to do with it. •Real mentorship and guidance existed, but it happened in closed conversations I was never part of, while others received constant support from senior engineers. •Key decisions were made in small informal groups, and I would only learn about them after everything had already been decided. •I was repeatedly assigned lower visibility infrastructure work while others were given opportunities to grow through impactful projects.

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