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MediaKind

Now known as MediaKind

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Management is even worse than Ericsson - Integration Engineer MediaKind Employee Review

1.0
27 July 2019
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Pros

None, unless you are in upper management or are buddy-buddy with them.

Cons

This company is terrible. To give you some idea: Ericsson has been failing terribly the past ~6 years. One round of layoffs after another (except for management, of course). Yet Mediakind makes Ericsson look like Google or Apple... wow, this company is bad. 1. The same terrible management was moved over from Ericsson to Mediakind. The same people who ran Ericsson into the ground for over a decade, with a total lack of leadership and vision, now run Mediakind. What could go wrong! 2. Sheer incompetence. Back when this leadership was with Ericsson, they hired all their friends. No skill required. They in turn brought in others. None of these people have any skill - not even the slightest. They in turn brought in others, to help make their Powerpoint slides... to justify the exorbitant salaries, the Powerpoint guy was given the title "manager III" - without any direct reports. Oh, when layoffs came, they were sure to shuffle some people around under their friends, so it looked like they had direct reports and were IMPORTANT. Of course, some poor engineer schmuck was let go instead. After the layoffs, they'd move those people right back to their original teams. What a joke. 3. Strategy? Vision? Hahaha. A quick look at Mediakind's management team shows you how they brag about transformation, Agile, Cloud.... let me tell you something. These people are sheep. There is no innovation - they hear a buzzword, and suddenly their brain wakes up and they think OH! WE HAVE TO DO THAT TOO! During one of the meetings they bragged about how they were going to make us a DevOps shop (last week it was Agile, but hey, like I said, they have no clue). How? They hired a single DevOps guy. Yeah, that will ensure that all the independent delivery teams, PDUs, integration teams will become DevOps overnight? They don't know a thing about CI/CD, dev vs qa vs prod, containerization, cloud, automated builds, testing, ... But they hired a single guy. And then they brag about how they "transformed the company." Oh, they transformed it, alright. They ran Ericsson into the ground, and now they run Mediakind into the ground. All while lining their own pockets and living in a multi-million $ mansion, of course.

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5.0
26 Aug 2022
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Pros

Competitive benefits and work-life balance, team work culture.

Cons

Pay TV market size is shrinking and company is still evolving to capture new markets

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3.0
5 June 2025
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Pros

MK has excellent products. The management team is strong and the do care about their employees. Many have been with MK, or one if it's acquisitions for many years.

Cons

Was rolled out from Ericsson in the worst way possible, with the worst possible LT leading the way. Tried to set up as a large scale company, instead of the start-up we were. Too many costly mistakes were made and have been expensive to overcome and turn a profit.

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