Monotype Reviews

I worked here for a short time and I found it to be, honestly, quite terrible. Without going into absurd detail, their business model is essentially to hunt down big businesses looking for tiny samples of Monotype font violations (the fonts are downloadable for free) then corner their prospects from a legal standpoint, ostensibly for 'infringement violations'. They essentially play a card that says "Look, we want to make sure you're compliant...we're just looking out for you..." while the threat of legal action quietly looms in the background. The truth is (in my opinion) the LAST thing Monotype actually wants is to have to go the legal route - it's as expensive and time consuming for Monotype as it is for the suckers they're chasing. What (I believe) they prefer to do is to coerce businesses into giving them large sums of money without actually having to threaten them with legal action. I do believe that if companies/prospects decided to push back or ignore Monotype, Monotype would have no choice than to drop their prices significantly in order to avoid getting nothing or getting mired down in legal action. In any case, I found the NYC office to be pretty brutal (my advice: if you're over 40, don't even think about working in the NYC office - you'd be better off at corporate headquarters). For anyone a bit older, inquire with HR about the NYC office demographics before accepting any offers. So clearly - I advise anyone and everyone to steer clear of this place. Hope this helps someone avoid making a mistake (like I did).

New CEO announces new vision - purely revenue based for the next five years. New senior management team rush to barely baked strategy and a disaster of the acquisition of Olapic. This is a company who believes in its own delusion - that they are a branding company, or a design company. Nope: they sell fonts. To a dwindling market, too. Wall Street knows it. Employees know it. There are many cons to working at Monotype now, unfortunately. 1. Purely revenue driven org operating on a broken sales model that will hit in a few years. 2. Human Resources focus on resources and not humans. 3. Poor benefits. Stock is used regularly for compensation but on writing this the stock has hit a four year low. It will go lower. 4. If you're looking at middle management, then be careful that this tier of management is disempowered in the org chart. All decisions and autonomy are escalated to VPs. Everyone else has to step in line. Or else.