MLive Media Group Reviews

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Struggling to find direction with financials and trying to stay afloat. Need to have fewer managers and more producers to create content.

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No training. No communication. No Direction. No satisfaction.

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revolving door, constant churn, political climate is highly beaucratic

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Weak auto management in Detroit –
Not enough staff to carry out and manage campaigns
High pressure, sales people wear many hats

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Don't even know where to start. You would think the mass exodus of seasoned, talented sales executives might give upper mgmt a hint that middle mgmt isn't doing their jobs. Every middle manager, director, etc. is completely inept at proper communication. Inability to understand what a new hire will need to be taught in order to be successful is the biggest problem. Then again, if they talked to them they would know. Like other reviewers have said, sometimes weeks go by without your manager touching base to see what you need right after you start and throughout your career.

Hidden, or small print "caps" on earning potential completely misleading. Now you can only make so much per month, and now they made a "true up month" once a year to cut you a check for your commission. This allows them the chance for you to have a bad month or two so they don't have to pay your commission since you have to be at 70% to plan in order to earn a dollar in commission. I've never heard of anything so crazy!!
Managers use intimidating techniques and seem to hide facts to help you close a sale, then they swoop in with the real "information" to seal a deal, and make themselves look good.

Promises of overwhelming support during the interview, yet in reality if you need help and your manager won't respond to phone or email, you are left frustrated and without answers until your manager that is in a meeting about another meeting decides to respond to you... but normally it's too late.

Nepotism

If you aren't part of the "core startup crew" you will be looked down upon and never given an opportunity to fit in.

One young, inexperienced manager in Auto has no clue how to respect his reports. He no shows "one-on-ones" and doesn't even apologize or tell you he has to reschedule. But if you are one minute late or need to reschedule, you will get the worst sarcasm and cold shoulder for weeks.
They don't even pay the federal standard for mileage reimbursement so you have to wait and claim it on your taxes.

This place is a sinking ship, obvious by the latest push of 90 day contracts. It seems like the business needs cash fast and is cutting staff like crazy.

Overworked, lean, inexperienced support staff. Skin and bones support for sales leads to horrible rollouts and campaign launches, but blame goes to the rep. O

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minimum expectations are unrealistic and is not matched by top executives

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Oh, lord... where do I begin. Let's start at the top! Most of the executive team is so out of touch with the reality of the business. The main guy (Matt Sharp)... he barely looks or talks to anyone unless you're on his team. If you are just an ordinary worker he doesn't even notice you. Great speaking in front of the group, but one-on-one you're invisible. The folks setting your goals aren't working towards any commission, so there's little support or compassion from them. You goals are so high that they are almost out of reach. Even if you hit your goal, when a client backs out of their agreement you lose out as that goes back on your goals. When a client cancels their agreement its not anything the sales rep did, its all MLive. MLive is not appropriately staffed to handle the work or the creative. Almost everything they do has little thought behind it, unless its a high paying client. There are a lot of folks getting rich over there and I promise its not the sales reps.

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Goals are challenging but the opportunities exist in the marketplace to continually meet and exceed them with focus and persistance

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No loyalty, no career advancement opportunities, shrinking payroll, staff cuts every few months, terrible working environment

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I went to MLive because the company was great about lying about how great and buttoned up they are.
However I was hired in and worked here over three weeks and never had one conversation with my manager... Had no clue what my goals were, quota, commission... The list goes on... I personally emailed her a couple times and texted her twice asking her if we could have a 1 :1...she NEVER EVEN RESPONDED TO MY REQUESTS... Never have I ever had an experience like this with an employer... Worst place ever... Seriously, if you're thinking about joining this company, and you don't want to believe what I've written... Just continue reading all the other reviews!!! It's NOT a coincidence that most of these reviews say how horrible MLive is to work for.