Sincere intentions hampered by mediocre leadership - Engineer Mediavine Employee Review

3.0
14 July 2022
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Pros

- Great benefits and "unlimited" PTO - A real focus on DEI efforts and investment in HR - Good efforts at managing work/life balance - Business genuinely focused on indie publishers - Made genuine if overdue efforts to equalize pay - Stable and growing revenue stream immune to pivots & wasted effort

Cons

- Executives are charismatic and genuinely friendly but neither demonstrate nor appear able to identify important leadership skills, leading to significant hiring errors, siloing, and a dearth of meaningful leadership. - Challenge executive viewpoints at your own peril. Learning how to spot bullying will be a useful skillset. - Culture is cheerful and inclusive on surface, but is otherwise undefined and vacuous. The startup in-jokes faded and nothing rose to take its place. - Won't stop calling employees "family".

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5.0
21 Aug 2025
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Pros

Mediavine invests in its employees and provides plenty of opportunities to develop new skills. Leadership has been making a noticeable effort to support employees while encouraging open communication and feedback. Colleagues are always willing to share knowledge, and there's a genuine sense of wanting to see clients as well as the company succeed.

Cons

Like any company, there can be challenges and shifts in priorities as the industry changes. This has impacted some colleagues, which is never easy, but the company has handled it with respect and care.

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1.0
3 June 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

They had a very strong LGBTQ+ hiring initiative, despite the national political effort to dissuade employers away from doing that.

Cons

I have never experienced working directly with an executive leadership team who strived on a daily basis so intentionally to burn the company to the ground as quickly as possible. The laughably bad business decisions which were made, the very public and juvenile infighting between executives, and the pathetic excuses which followed when mass layoffs "had to happen" is just... sad. It is not surprising, but it's just sad. MV could have been such a great place to work. But, instead "toxic" would have been a real blessing. Working there was like surviving "Squid Game"... every single day. That is no way to live.

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