Meltwater reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(1,607 total reviews)
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72% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Meltwater has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,607 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Meltwater employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Apr 27, 2011
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Pros

Meltwater is a very people oriented company. My managers always looked out for me, gave me honest feedback and helped me understand my own strengths and weaknesses in much more detail. Sales is tough anywhere and the same is true at Meltwater, but the product has huge potential and I found that if i worked hard and focused on building sound relationships with clients, results would follow. It was also a young place to work - obviously this means some people lacked experience, but the entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to be myself with colleagues more than made up for it. It was interesting as a business grad to watch a young company maturing as well - while there i saw them roll out the HR department, PR department and begin making acquistitions. MEST is also pretty admirable.

Cons

I worked really hard there - for me it was fine, but I don't think its for everyone. At my new job people spend half their day on facebook and I didn't have time for that at Meltwater. Offices are typically less than 15 people with an average age of 27 or so, so i wasn't learning from seasoned veterans and people were figuring things out as they went along.

4.0
Feb 23, 2011

Closeness of the employees is amazing.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I was happy to form a great relationship with all of my coworkers. I enjoyed my short stay at Meltwater.

Cons

I did not like cold calling. Sometimes I hated coming into work just because of the whole quota system. I left after 8 months.

4.0
Feb 15, 2011
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Pros

Meltwater is an entrepreneurial environment -- you get the opportunity to take an idea and run with it. There is a lot of autonomy and opportunities for growth. If you can take something abstract and take charge of it, then you get the chance to be creative, shape your own goals, objectives, milestones and thus your own career.

Cons

It can be a challenging place to work because there isn't a lot of support in terms of many central functions. Most of the senior management are heads of sales and therefore don't really understand the bigger picture, the market, etc.

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