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MLive Media Group Reviews

3.0

44% would recommend to a friend

(148 total reviews)
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Dan Gaydou

72% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

MLive Media Group has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 148 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The MLive Media Group 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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148 reviews
1.0
26 Aug 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Not many to name but there are some rare, great people who are a lot of fun to work with. Equipment and other perks like event tickets etc.

Cons

The cons could take a long time but I will stick to the highlights. Management doesn't have a clue; yes, there are disgruntled employees who've left the company writing some of the reviews and that happens, but what should be acknowledged is the sheer number of them. Management continues to live in a bubble where they tell each other how great they are, and what a difference they are making in the digital space. It's pretty evident who wrote the non-sugar coated reviews that just so happened to be dripping with honey. If they would take a step into reality and listen to people outside that bubble, it could potentially be a great company again.....but they won't. Their inflated salaries and egos will never change because they don't have to. They layoff over 30 people which is closely followed by promotions and raises in the wake. Instead of rewarding people who've put in the work to earn it, they reward those who drink the Kool-aid. The yes men (or women) talk the talk, then follow it up by talking the talk about how clueless their 'superiors' actually are. Good people are leaving left and right and they refuse to acknowledge there's a problem. They change their structure weekly and say it's to keep innovating in the digital space, but in truth they have no idea what they're doing. They will make a change and if it doesn't bare fruit within a month they change it again......a lot of the time it's back to what they were doing before. You most definitely don't want to work here if you ask questions. Asking questions means you aren't following them blindly, and they don't like that. Even if they change the process that you asked about the next week, you aren't a team player and have a target on your back. I used to have a lot of respect for Dan Gaydou as the head of this company but not anymore. He unfortunately continues to let people run this company into the ground.

2.0
1 Oct 2015

Titanic of Media Groups

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Provide excellent training New technology Forefront of change

Cons

Toxic environment that seems to be getting worse. Pay structure for employees with any experience changes yearly so that you make less regardless if you reach goals. Very cliquey environment, if you are not on the inside you will not have success, regardless if you excel at your job. Goals are a moving target, if you reach them they just become higher. Changes happen as a result of upper management's distortion of reality to the owners. The question isn't if, rather when will the ship sink.

1.0
28 Apr 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

you occasionally run into some talented people. If their souls have not been crushed by the company's arrogance and dictator style of management. Made a few great friends, which is likely true of any company where you mutually suffer. I imagine that the people who were together on the titanic got to know each other real well before it sank.. If you're desperate for money, this place will likely hire you, with no relevant experience or education, so I guess things could always be worse. But realistically, my peers included people who previously sold cable door to door, who cut hair, who were secretaries, girls who sold overpriced spandex in malls, former plumbers, went to "online colleges", had an associates, had no degree period, had never even stepped on a college campus... The criteria to be hired is literally being a warm body.

Cons

Its very clear that as a company, they are hurting financially. Print revenue has come and gone, and the company had never planned on what to do after. bonus checks mysteriously got delayed, or paid less than what they should have been, or never paid at all. Raises were in the 20-300 dollar range, total, annually, if you were lucky. IF YOU ARE A CLIENT CONSIDERING ADVERTISING WITH THIS COMPANY, WAKE UP. Read the reviews, they can't staff the empty buildings anymore. The only way this company continues to function is they literally send inexperienced people, taught to repeat what they hear from others, to prey on unsuspecting business owners. Not a single client to this day, has had a truly successful campaign with mlive. All the reporting is manipulated, the figures are NEVER accurate, and employees are taught to be spin artists to deny lack of performance. The fulfillment processes are nonexistent. million dollar campaigns rely on 2-3 people to work 80+ hours a week to hopefully input archaic processes semi-correctly.

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