Mate the Label Reviews

MATE the Label is rooted in toxicity and it starts with leadership. If you are not aligned with the founders vision or express differing views (regardless of how wonderful or hardworking of an employee you are) you will be fired with no explanation. If you report this behavior to leadership in confidence, they will turn right around and tell the CEO. Management will say over and over again how they are trying to change, but it will never happen because of who's at the top. The CEO uses scare tactics so that no one will actually address their concerns. At a point this got so bad that leadership actually created an anonymous question forum that they would answer during All Hands meetings. The outcome? Leadership would skip the hard-pressing questions and not address them, all while preaching a narrative of full transparency. Opinions are one sided and everything is done for marketing and Instagram. If you are not favored by leadership, you will not get a raise or promotion but will be expected to do more work that is never recognized. It's time for MATE to cut the "wear many hats" start up attitude because it has been used for way too long. The reality is, leadership is in denial of what/ who the problem really is.

Overworking people isn’t sustainable. People should get their time off during the holidays/weekends and not have to focus on business needs if everyone else from the team gets to relax. People shouldn’t have to work to meet deadlines during team meetups (which are supposed to be casual). Seems weird that they have these breath work team bonding exercises to “hold space” for self care or whatever but then they over work workers. Diversity is improving on IG but take a look at the team. There seems to really be no want to change since everyone basically has the same complaints yet everything is the same. As long as money is generating I guess. Management has no grasp on the consumer. Yet simultaneously does not listen to CX when they voice concerns. Then concerns happen and they’re like, :o oopsie! Realistically, management should know the processes of the things/people they’re managing. However, “I don’t know. Start an email with ____ and cc me” seems to always be the answer. Meetings (that can be emails) on top of meetings. Some people are naively ignorant. Some are more privileged than others and that’s life (that’s okay!). However, one anti-racism training via a private YouTube link isn’t going to fix that. MATE talks the talk about “doing the work” (like on IG LIVE, guided by the only Black person on the team—she quit btw). But outside of social media, eh. Clearly everyone has their own experience here. Some good, some bad. If you’re interviewing though, I recommend that you ask why MATE hires so much (in such a short period of time). And in case they meet you with “we’re expanding,”double down with a few follow ups like, what’s the turnover rate? For the people that recently left, how long were they there for? How many people have you hired in the last year? How big was your team at the beginning of the year? How big was your team at the end of the year? It might give some clarity.