Quantcast Reviews

Pros

good culture - open and transparent leadership has good values

Cons

the company is switching from managed service to self-service. a little bit late in the game though (self-serve ad platform) comp is not very competitive lean team and limisted resources

Pros

1) Amazing WLB with great food (pre-pandemic) and really good perks (dental, vision, etc) 2) Absolutely amazing culture, the happy hours were some of the best in the Bay and the people are really worth staying for 3) Really smart people that help you learn and take responsibility 4) A lot of space to grow and take ownership, a perfect place to start and grow fast

Cons

1) Competitive market so it's harder to differentiate and keep revenue 2) IPO idea's been hanging for a while and isn't gaining enough momentum

Pros

You could basically live at the office as work-life didn't exist.

Cons

I was hesitant to write a review on this company, as the fear it made me feel every day truly followed me for years. I reported to a mentally unstable woman with a brain injury, which wouldn't have been a problem had she not lied to our overall managers and HR about the most insane things to keep the focus off the fact she was useless while making the rest of us work 15-hour days. She blew through employees like they were dandelion seeds. However, shortly after I left, I heard that her house of cards came tumbling down (not to mention she was married to three different guys across two years, claiming she was abused and would talk about her personal life as if any of us cared about her pathological lying). Completely unprofessional and uncomfortable. The Sales team was a revolving door of panicked, verbally-abused, blinded-by-lies folks who wanted to advance their careers but ended up blemishing their resumés with a blip because nothing they did could keep them off a PIP and ultimate boot. There was a definite "in-crowd" of old-timers that kept their heads down and their mouths shut, and after a few months it became clear why . . . pay was just decent enough to stay through the abuse and advancement became inevitable given the steady rate of attrition. The office environment felt like a mortuary. You could hear a pin drop, the somberness of everyone was palpable, and you were expected to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner at your desk or you were given dirty looks by either people who were just as miserable as you, or were trying to have ammunition in their back pocket to keep the light off of themselves. Typical work hours were 8 am-6 pm and even then, the first person to leave either snuck out pretending to go use the restroom so as to not be seen as "that person", or used a doctor's appointment as an excuse to leave at a normal time. I would be remiss to say I don't still have nightmares every once in a while about this company. I wake up in a cold sweat, out of breath, and thankful that it was a nightmare and that I never have to step foot in there again.

Pros

As a lower-level employee, it's a great place to learn the industry and develop your skills to then finally, leverage your title to move vertically to another company. There are some amazing people at the lower levels of the company and one or two gems as you move up the company ladder, but sadly it gets worse as you move up the chain. Pre-COVID, the office had great catered lunches and all the snacks I could want, however that will most likely never return as budgets have contracted significantly. My Advice if you don't want to read the rest: Get in, get paid, get out somewhere better. The stock options are worthless

Cons

The majority of problems at Quantcast come down to too little, too late. The company has been stagnant for years and will be left behind by better players in the space in a year or two. Product: Quantcast has consistently been 2-4 years behind key competitors (MediaMath, TTD, etc) in most regards. Leadership consistently makes poor decisions on what trends to hop on, typically opting to pass on things, and instead focus on our outdated managed service offering. A quick list of trends they have almost completely missed the boat on: Self-Serve, CTV/OTT, dCPM pricing, TRANSPARENCY, and Incrementality. They have recently released a self-serve platform that initially showed promise as it poised to be a cheaper alternative to incumbent platforms like TTD, but it's been mired in delays and positioning issues. At this point, it's not a cheaper solution to democratize programmatic advertising, but just another platform with similar pricing to TTD but lacking in many key features. Management moves the goalposts on what an 'Ideal Client" looks like for self-serve, that the reps selling it never have time to build their prospecting books and start getting traction in the market. On the managed service side, the product works really well, but instead of delivering truly incredible performance, we charge triple industry standard margin and deliver average performance. Pricing on a flat CPM is awful in this case, as the company is incentivized to purchase gutter-tier inventory after getting a conversion to backfill guaranteed impressions and make the company more money. Every client should be asking for site delivery reports with EXACT impression counts, and audit them your self. Management: The overall quality of management at QC is poor at best. Many sales managers don't know how to motivate their team beyond telling them to "send more emails" and micro-managing their activities in general. In the worst cases, some managers are wholly incompetent, having never taken the time to learn the product or industry, and at in other times, extremely shady. Certain managers will skew incrementality tests via incorrect methodology to ensure good results. Additionally, another issue is forecasting, and this issue goes all the way to the top. Each quarter we are asked to forecast our pipeline 3-6 months out. When the individual numbers don't add up to the company goal, they will force reps to lie on the forecast by putting estimated revenue against sales that has no chance of closing, then act surprised when the quota generated out of it isn't achieved.