MEDL Mobile Reviews

3.8

53% would recommend to a friend

(19 total reviews)

Dave Swartz

27% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

MEDL Mobile has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 19 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MEDL Mobile employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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19 reviews
2.0
6 Sept 2012

A tapering experience.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are a lot of good things that can be said, those things though, are about other employees. Some of the people I've met here are the coolest people I've met. Initially the feel was that of a start-up. Spitballing ideas, working hard, staying late, and having a great time doing it. Maltin, Dave, and Dennis are great guys to work with. Extremely giving and generous.

Cons

Weak pay, long hours, poor project management, no technical guidance, no code reviews, OUTSOURCING CODE, ever changing designs, virtually no structure at all. Any structure that does exist, is a facade and is non-existent when not looking at the whiteboard the theoretical structure lies on, poor communication (Sorry guys, all staffs and scrums don't work) ... SHOVELWARE

1.0
10 July 2024

Please, avoid!!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Variety of projects with unique features in multiple industries, a great learning experience - Teams are composed of talented people who are mostly friendly - You'll always be busy, there's always work to do and people aid each other when it gets closer to deadlines, fostering a more collaborative atmosphere (which is lacking to say the least).

Cons

Not sure where to start... - VP talks terribly about everyone. You're out sick? He's talking bad about you behind your back. You took a vacation? He's talking bad about you too. You work remote? Not only VP but all upper management is talking badly about remote workers. He acts strange towards women, making weird comments about their appearance. He throws threats left and right. Overall, he's racist, sexist, immature and should not be leading a company. The worst part is upper management enables his behavior and does not care. - No HR. There is absolutely no way to voice your concerns here. At all. I've seen people try and talk to upper management but they get scolded, being told they are wrong and to f*** off essentially. Their general behavior is very condescending. - Organization is a mess. Communication is a mess. Whenever there should be collaboration, everyone works on their own respective island and it makes projects complicated to follow and achieve within tight deadlines. - Pay. Yes, it is a small company and yes, you will have to do all kinds of jobs here outside of your expertise. BUT you should be compensated fairly for said skills. There are people making 6 figures while others struggle to pay rent and that's not fair. - Projects are not using best practices or going by industry standards at all; following trends without doing the proper research to make their projects functional and long-lasting.

2.0
23 May 2024

Needs to Do Better.

Recommend
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Pros

- The team of engineers, designers, and product leads at MEDL are extremely talented and hard working. - Multiple projects with interesting clients and unique industry propositions lead to an ever evolving, innovative, and creative work style being needed. - For self motivated individuals there is an environment where many solutions have to be sought out.

Cons

- All best practices for Agile management are ignored either intentionally or due to poor understanding. There are no standardized boards or timelines, no cadence for sprints, no sprint reviews or established scrum ceremonies. - Poor estimations and poor project understanding leads to squandering client resources and reduces the profitability that many projects could achieve. Due to these poor estimates the team is punished for properly reporting and going over hours, or equally punished for not reporting hours to try to maintain the budget that was set. - Micro-management is taken as a core principle. All decision making and actions have to be ok'ed with upper management leading to an extreme bottleneck and delay in all projects. - High turn-over, with nearly the entire product team and multiple engineers leaving or being fired in my 1 year tenure. - Upper management provides no expectations, policies, or guidance resulting in constant self imposed emergencies needing to be addressed. Requests for clarification or help lead to long meetings full of tangents with no action items.

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