Yesmail Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Yesmail part-time for less than a year

Pros – Yesmail is an organization that positively stands apart

Cons – marketing applications, data management, data intelligence, lead generation, and best practices consulting.

Advice to Senior Management – marketing applications, data management, data intelligence, lead generation, and best practices consulting.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Yesmail full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – •Flexible work environment
•Great People
•Interesting field
•Cool clients doing great work in the interactive space

Cons – •Company is in turn-around mode
•Outdated business processes
•Long hours

Advice to Senior Management – •Invest in infrastructure, business process and making system better for your employees. Actively try to breakdown data silos and integrate systems.
•Have a place where feedback and be given and ideas shared anonymously
•Make collaboration part of the culture again – across business functions and offices
•Communicate more and ask for feedback
•Do performance reviews, in a predicable fashion
•Have clear vision, expectations and measures for success for your employees

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Yesmail

Pros – There are many friendly individuals and there can be opportunities to learn and grow.

Cons – The company doesn't seem to have clear career path for most departments. New management is not people focused and seems struggling to turn around the last few years of bad numbers and client losses.

Advice to Senior Management – Understand that while work is a reciprocal agreement to exchange services, a company needs to reciprocate with more than just a salary. Things like mentoring, career advancement, training, trust etc. are required to retain the best and the brightest.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Yesmail full-time

Pros – Brilliant, fun people
Great locations
Flexible work accommodations

Cons – Horrible benefits
Owned by multiple levels of corporate greed and mismanagement
Average pay

Advice to Senior Management – Well, you can't do anything because your hands are tied. Perhaps relieve a few layers of executive staff? Focus on the winners, maybe?

Current Employee – been working at Yesmail full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Work flexibility, work from home culture.

Cons – Managers love Sycophants, buttlickers and promotions are only given to them. Hardworkers should just search for another job and this is what my manager told me :)
NO Raises, no promotions....
NO Vision at executive level...

Advice to Senior Management – Don't think you can do whatever you want, if you want to succeed in your personal and professional life, respect and treat every employee equal.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Yesmail

Pros – - Laid back atmosphere
- Appealing clients
- Work from home opportunities
- Personable managers
- Good work/life balance

Cons – - Management seems to be lost in direction
- Constant change in brand identity
- Artificial corporate communications
- Managers lack leadership skills
- High employee turnover rate
- Managers makes no effort to keep employees happy

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in your employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Yesmail

Pros – You COULD end up with a nice boss and team. You will have the opportunity watch first hand how to not run a company.

Cons – You will most likely not grow here. if you go to YM go because you absolutely need the job, do not give up a mediocre job to come here. Most teams are in silos. Leadership will fight change/automation since none of them are technical. None of the upper level managers live in the same city as the company HQ. My guess is the next year or two will be spent trying to get Yesmail to a point where the new management can sell it, or if they can show some revenue growth they will IPO.
In the end I actually decided that too many of the leaders above me were simply BAD people(not bad managers, but bad human beings) so I left.

Advice to Senior Management – My advice would be to show up at the Yesmail headquarters, introduce yourself and start learning the names and faces of people on teams that report to you. Also, changing the company name 5 times in 2 years doesn't actually do anything except let your clients and employees know you have no clue what you're doing. Quit focusing on taking away employee garbage cans and start focusing on quality dev.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Yesmail

Pros – The people are great, the work/life balance is excellent, and I've learned a lot in my time here. I've been exposed to a fair number of technologies that I'd never worked with before.

Cons – Let's face it, no one is excited about e-mail marketing (AKA spam). You'll also find yourself supporting lots of crappy legacy code. And developers have to work two-week support rotations where you're on call 24/7 (although thankfully, off-hours calls are fairly rare).

Advice to Senior Management – Management could very easily improve morale by making pay and benefits more competitive.

Former Employee – worked at Yesmail

Pros – Small company experience, make something from nothing

Cons – Lack of support, efficient biz process

Advice to Senior Management – Control the cost

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Yesmail

Pros – The salary is really above what is offered in comparable positions in this area (PNW). Health care isn't too bad (for the time being); it went from great, to terrible, to somewhere in between in the last few years. There is a nice amount of reimbursement available for relevant classes taken.

Cons – Almost zero possibility of ever advancing, training for another position, or any type of career improvements whatsoever. People stay where they have started, for years and years (those who can tolerate insanely long hours, and haven't been laid off yet due to the infogroup acquisition).
There is a large amount of disrespect shown to employees by upper management, who, although aren't generally technologically proficient themselves, manage to find infinite ways to nitpick and criticize trivial matters while people who actually work are trying to do their job.

Advice to Senior Management – Recognize potential and drive in employees; provide incentives for those who have put in a great deal of time and commitment into their work. There are knowledgeable staff leaving or wanting to leave because otherwise they are stuck in their current positions with no hope of advancement.
Also, as an additional note to management, a simple 'Thank you' goes a long way.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend