Mad Mobile Reviews

2.4

25% would recommend to a friend

(161 total reviews)

Bruce Bennett

39% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

Mad Mobile has an employee rating of 2.4 out of 5 stars, based on 161 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Mad Mobile employee rating is 38% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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161 reviews
1.0
31 Oct 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Provided you are not on the support team, the technology is cutting edge and interesting from a development standpoint. Also, for the most part the individual contributors are awesome people. I've met a ton of great friends and learned a lot from my former co-workers at Mad Mobile.

Cons

The company is a sales driven tyranny. While sales is a crucial part of any business model, it is revered at Mad Mobile as the only worthy skill. Developers, Business Analysts, Project Managers, and QAs are all treated as dispensable numbers. Churn rate is extremely high at this company. Mad Mobile also has an embarrassing number of VPs given the size of the company. The 3:1 VP-to-Employee ratio is not that much of an exaggeration. Words of advice to potential new hires reading these reviews: First, click the "Rating Trends" button up by the company rating. Notice the non-normal distribution of ratings primarily consisting 1 and 5 star reviews. Seems a little odd, doesn't it? Next read some of the latest 5 star reviews. Notice that they all focus on how much the customer loves Mad Mobile and how revolutionary the product is. Sure seems like something someone from management would write.

1.0
29 Mar 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent benefits, but average pay. There are some nice people at MM.

Cons

Sales Driven Development (SDD) is not a new anti pattern, but one MM has perfected. You will hear how some in leadership used to be developers, however take the time to look at their LinkedIn profiles. All the startups that they were part of no longer exist or were a joke to begin with. The key to promotions is being a sales engineer (aka architect, principal, VP, SVP, C?O) or bully. You will have some fake title, but if you can do the deal then that will be your key to success at MM. True engineers evaporate like water from the dead sea. MM is only left with the salt (the dead sea effect). The technology stack is a dated hodgepodge of JavaScript/TypeScript/Java. The Sr. and above level developers think they can create better software than proven stacks/frameworks. MM is the home of the square wheel. Being able to make a better mouse trap is being able to fully understand the problem domain and doing the proper R&D to evaluate if homemade truly is better. MM does not have the skills in house to do that, so they end up writing a poor imitation of a service bus for example. Hey, let's hard code everything to produce/ingest JSON instead of abstracting that away. Rookie architectural mistakes left and right. Perhaps MM should go back to their web scraping roots. They've never really matured. Best practices are thrown out the window at MM. Requirements, analysis, unit tests, load testing, thread safety, encapsulation, loose coupling, retrospectives, etc. are a waste of time. Hacking up a solution or copy-n-paste programming are the norm. So if you come from an unstructured cowboy IT background then you will fit right in. However, if you come from a structured IT environment MM will seem alien. QA is a joke that could be automated out of existence. If the tickets they create are legible then the steps to reproduce the issue will not be accurate, thus you'll be doing that too. Project Managers are completely worthless ticket pushers. They literally have no clue how to manage projects and spend most of their time on meetings with clients explaining why something was not delivered. Then they hire more worthless managers thinking this will help fix the broken processes. HR feels the need to call you a Mad Mobiler like it's some kind of cult or culture thing. The culture is simple, do the sales deal at all costs or bully other employees. Sorry, your Mad Mobiler tag is creepy and immature. Some of us are adults and we just want to do our work and get paid without having to be part of selling junk (non-sales employees) or being bullied. Be prepared for the HR response starting with how they are improving the Mad Mobiler experience. Also, note that the positive reviews are one liners. No one really tells you why it's so great at MM. Please do your homework on this place before making a career mistake.

1.0
26 Oct 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- There are some good people left there. - You can work with newer javascript frameworks. - They will probably pay you more than average, there is a reason for this.

Cons

- Technical leadership is a mess, they really don't understand the tech stack they work with. - Executive leadership is extremely unethical and ineffective. - Upper and middle management is bloated yet somehow always being fired, then more are hired. - The company will say or do anything to get a sale, and then pass the work to the development team. This is a sales company, not a tech company, and it shows in many ways. - Developers are extremely overworked and under-appreciated. If you want to work here as a developer, prepare to be burned out. If you are passionate and think this is a plus, seriously think about what it will be like when that passion is gone after working multiple 60+ hour weeks in a row. - You will not learn or grow here as a junior developer, they will straight up lie to you about what you will be doing. - Leadership will literally yell at each other, and others. - Multiple aspects of the company are a facade, I saw the size and capabilities of the organization and its technology fabricated many times.

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