Meltwater reviews

Upper management is a huge bromance that's invite-only, and boys-only: the CEO surrounds himself with a hand-selected group of yes-men that came up the Sales ladder. Talented women in Sales are routinely passed over for men who have less experience but more high-five prowess. I have never seen a more sexist company in my career, and was told directly by a senior sales manager that "We only hire hot chicks." Turnover in pivotal senior leadership positions is very high - the ones who stick around are those chosen frat boys who were rocketed up the ladder from the sales organization.

⁃ KPIs for bonuses and to get a decent % of commission are incredibly difficult to hit making it impossible to pay your bills on quarters you aren’t consistently hitting quotas (I.e a global pandemic) ⁃ Toxic positivity and overall just toxic culture is rampant... you will be expected to take disrespect from management and not defend yourself. They only promote from within which causes management to believe the way they are treating employees is fair and with respect because they themselves were treated that way. Not understanding that they are also victims of a toxic culture and further perpetuating it. ⁃ Toxic sales culture that drips into the way management treats employees. Sales tactics are deceitful, manipulative, and oftentimes just embarrassingly desperate. Management uses these same tactics to gaslight & manipulate employees. For example, threatening to take away our Christmas vacation if our numbers weren’t better and being told that was something our higher ups could do if they wanted. Then the day before Christmas Eve this person treated it as a favor that they had convinced higher ups to give us this company wide mandated holiday off for us to be grateful toward them. Abhorrent and manipulative tactics will be used to try to gaslight you and force you to work harder. ⁃ Your managers will have no previous leadership experience and it will show in the way they communicate with you. They oftentimes don’t have the proper skills required to be in the positions they are in and because of this there will be tons of unintended disrespect as well as passive aggressiveness, avoidance, and a variety of other general incompetencies. Again, this is not the fault of the CSMs or MDs themselves but rather on the company itself for 1) only promoting from within 2) having such high turn over and having to quickly promote people 3) not having the proper training in communication and leadership the teams here so desperately need 4) not better paying staff so quality employees actually want to stay. ⁃ Expect disrespect, being treated like a toddler, passive aggressive slacks, the expectation of coming in early and leaving late every day, lack of support, lack of training, all for $50k with bonuses and commission. I’m all for working hard but you are in no way shape or form fairly compensated in this role. When I left I negotiated a 60% increase in salary for a similar role at a different company. ⁃ Your clients will hate the software. Some of them will even show you your competitors. Oftentimes they are better. Leadership is so disillusioned from how saturated the market is and how poor the product truly is because they haven’t done a demo or worked in a client facing role in so long they feel justified in their unrealistic sales expectations. ⁃ SMs and MDs get a bad wrap on here when in actuality it’s those above that enable the poor behavior of those they employ. Leadership also places a substantial amount of pressure on those in management which they in turn press on representatives and clients. Burning and churning not only client relationship but also the relationships between managers and employees. Some of leadership needs to be gutted out and replaced with outside hires to see real systemic change. But that isn’t the “Meltwater way” ⁃ There is absolutely no diversity in any of the Meltwater offices ⁃ This is not a company for business professionals. It’s a bunch of 20 somethings running around with absolutely no idea what they’re doing. I’m grateful for the opportunity to work here because now I know what type of company I’d NEVER want to work for again and what to look for in a future employer ⁃ After 6 months in to my role with this organization I was told we were hiring and to let my friends know, I remember thinking “why would I want my friends to be unhappy?” This isn’t a place I would recommend to my friends or any other human being for that matter. Most people feel disrespected at the end of their final interview with Meltwater (they try to get under your skin). They’re showing you who they are from the start. If you’ve gotten that far and are reading this review ask yourself: “do I really want to work for this company?” The answer should plainly and simply be: no. As noted in a previous review people who enjoy working here probably have Stockholm syndrome.