Netmarble Reviews

3.0

53% would recommend to a friend

(142 total reviews)

41% positive business outlook

Netmarble has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 142 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Netmarble employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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142 reviews
1.0
10 Aug 2017

To those who are considering Netmarble US.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

1. 401k after 3 years.

Cons

1. Politics. 2. Micromanagement. Weekly meeting with the CEO, CFO, HR to go over daily tasks. 3. Unrealistic evaluations based on unreachable KPI and not based on the employee's actual performance at work. 4. Racism. The CEO and CFO only likes Korean males. If you are not a Korean-speaking male, you will not like this company. 5. Work slow. Unless you overtime often or have dinner with the upper management every night, you will not be considered for promotion. 6. Numerous legal issues that are tied to "Korean-based company". 7. All of the original employees are starting to leave due to the upper management.

1.0
15 Nov 2018

Do not recommend, period.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

This is a review from one of the oldest members at the US office; 3 years (=high credibility, basically you can count on my review). 1. Benefits (top tier) 2. DTLA Office (getting to DTLA is little bit hectic, however the actual office is decent) 3. Half day Friday (10am - 2pm) 4. Flexible work hrs (you may come to the office anytime between 8am to 1pm depending on your daily situation/commute and fulfill 8 hrs shift) 5. Complimentary lunch given to employees (Mon - Thurs.)

Cons

1. Expect Low Salary - not meeting the industry standard, however the HR & Upper management would congratulate you during annual raise which is only about 3% raise in average, be proud to work in Global Number 1 company. 2. Lack of upper management - no clear directions nor decisions being made; there's always a last minute change/adjustment which requires a ton of time to implement. 3. Politics - of course, be familiar with the Simon says game & dinner crew. and we can keep going with more Cons; all of these are previously mentioned in other reviews so no point in reiterating. I'd like to just say one thing, the major issue of the NA office is the Goal vs. Salary. Current Company Goal + excessive amount of work required, in daily basis, is understandable (in order to achieve high goal, it somewhat requires a lot of time invested into the work). However, this has to come along with right salary amount for each personnel. It's simple enough, if you want the company to strive for a big success, the company has to pay the employees with the right amount first and foremost you can't expect employees to stay late and work OTs as much as the upper management when their paychecks are extremely DIFFERENT.

1.0
17 Jul 2020

Listen to the Negative Reviews. I wish I did.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

A lot of your coworkers are good, easy to work with, and make bad days alright. It's mostly bad days.

Cons

- Zero accountability. No one in management ever did anything wrong, just reactive blaming. - Terrible Benefits (that HR pretends are good). You only get 6 sick days per year and vacation accrues slowly and gets cashed out by the end of the year, heavily taxed. - You have to clock in and out, even as a full-time employee. Your PTO gets docked for every second you're in under 9 hours a day. They pretend Fridays are half-days, but really, they aren't - Management is mainly Korean and overwhelmingly male. If you're not a Korean man, don't expect to go far - Raises are pathetic and way below cost of living. Think in the range between 1-2 percent. - Most employees are unhappy and don't feel valued - The US branch gets pretty much run over by the Korea branch, even if it is on a topic you would know more about for North America - Very little mobility - Through COVID-19 employees are mostly using their own equipment. Extremely cheap with resources and supplies. -What was said about the CFO in other reviews is true. He is a lawsuit waiting to happen. -Extremely unwilling to implement change to match the rest of the industry. Act appalled when employees ask for normal American business benefits and treatment.

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