Only a win on the surface - Anonymous employee Mattermark Employee Review

1.0
19 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Company is great at marketing and comes off as a "rocket ship" online. People will respect you for working there.

Cons

- Management is strong con. CEO does not seem qualified to run a tech company seems more like a better fit would be a marketing exec or writer. CEO also demonstrates lacks of respect for CTO role. (CTO is actually a real star). Management team as a whole is weak, and favoritism is strong. (ex: People with no experience / skills given executive / C-level power, employees pressured to spend free time with management, experienced employees seen as threat) - Product is loaded with technical debt. Made some poor decisions at the beginning and still paying for it. - Price point greatly outweighs value (and the teams knows it); however more time is spent correcting recurrent problems than adding new value points. - Employee churn. Management churns through employees at higher rate than average at startups ...seems employees are let go to justify product problems. -Market too small. Company has yet to crack this code, and not many attractive exit opportunities here.

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5.0
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Pros

The people I work with are intelligent, diverse, creative, compassionate, friendly, and driven. I feel like we make real progress on our objectives on a weekly basis. Modernization of tooling (Docker, Mesos, Elasticbeanstalk) has made it much easier to be an effective engineer.

Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Warm culture of encouraging colleagues that comes along with an amazing office and location. In my tenure there I was never micro managed and was allowed the space to create my own approach and control my own schedule.

Cons

Lack of coaching, and minimal support from the sales manager. There was only one while I was there, he was a tall guy who seemed like he was overwhelmed from the start and inexplicably timid like he'd been completely defeated at his previous company. In any case, there wasn't much in the way of helping to close deals. The product itself was nice, but it was stuck in between niches. It was too high priced for SMB and not deep enough to compete with more robust products for mid-market/enterprise accounts. Additionally, it's product's purpose had somewhat of an identity crisis. They tried to pivot towards a sales use case but didn't want to provide contact information to be of value in that regard.

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