Don’t work here - Account Manager Meltwater Employee Review

- An absolute dumpster fire of incompetent managers and area leaders promoted from within - the selling tactics they teach are akin to harassment at the core. People will scream at you and your manager will say “wait a month before you call them again” - regularly laying off engineers even tho the product is broken all the time - The whitest company I have ever worked for, not a single black employee in their biggest offices, all white sales teams sending out their embarrassing photos at the end of every month showing off their lack of diversity - heavy drinking culture, like a frat house. Pushing binge drinking on people during the day. This needs to go. - you will be expected to hang out after hours with your team and on weekends. Say goodbye to your friends or family - they hire young upper middleclass college grads who have never had even a retail job before. These kids don’t know what to expect and tolerate a lot of mistreatment because the rest of the group does as well. They pay hourly and bottom dollar, it’s more like a bootcamp than a job. - New hires (all 20ish) come in and say dumb, racist and sexist stuff because they don’t know any better. - lots of Trump voters who brag about sharing their politics with daddy in office - this will never be a billion dollar organization, don’t waste your time if they offer you shares (which most of you won’t get) - cheap as hell on everything. You will share hotel rooms with coworkers when you travel while managers get their own. I can only imagine the HR violations that have come out of this money saver. Your own room when you travel is normal thing to expect at any other company. - It’s like an MLM or pyramid scheme, they want you to want to be a MD even the basic economics of the role make no sense. This is why you see plenty of 23-25 year old MDs with zero outside working experience. - They want the title even though the pay and workload are bad - 70-90% of all sales hires leave after a year, and a few really toxic ones who are trapped hang around forever like a herpes infection, making everyone new miserable - they IPOed in Norway instead of the US where they are headquartered for a reason and it wasn’t heritage - 3 CEOs in one year - no real products of their own, everything is a partnership or some kind or reselling stuff you could buy direct from those companies. They don’t want you to know this - the few products they do have are half baked versions of what they once offered, put together by product leaders who have no product management or ownership experience but are in their position from sales backgrounds - a lot of the data is bad, missing, broken. Anyone who looks at the raw data too closely will be disappointed so they are building the product to make it harder to do that analysis - you don’t see anyone in their 30s working in sales here unless they’re married to an executive or something weird like that. Very few mothers return after mat leave. - bad health insurance packages will have you paying more out of pocket than if you worked for a company that wasn’t so cheap - If you are over 28 and not an MD, you are too old for here. Don’t apply for a sales job if you’re over 30, they discriminate against age - not a place you can have a career which is why Meltwater has more alumnus than employees, burn and churn