MediaKind Reviews

This company is terrible. To give you some idea: Ericsson has been failing terribly the past ~6 years. One round of layoffs after another (except for management, of course). Yet Mediakind makes Ericsson look like Google or Apple... wow, this company is bad. 1. The same terrible management was moved over from Ericsson to Mediakind. The same people who ran Ericsson into the ground for over a decade, with a total lack of leadership and vision, now run Mediakind. What could go wrong! 2. Sheer incompetence. Back when this leadership was with Ericsson, they hired all their friends. No skill required. They in turn brought in others. None of these people have any skill - not even the slightest. They in turn brought in others, to help make their Powerpoint slides... to justify the exorbitant salaries, the Powerpoint guy was given the title "manager III" - without any direct reports. Oh, when layoffs came, they were sure to shuffle some people around under their friends, so it looked like they had direct reports and were IMPORTANT. Of course, some poor engineer schmuck was let go instead. After the layoffs, they'd move those people right back to their original teams. What a joke. 3. Strategy? Vision? Hahaha. A quick look at Mediakind's management team shows you how they brag about transformation, Agile, Cloud.... let me tell you something. These people are sheep. There is no innovation - they hear a buzzword, and suddenly their brain wakes up and they think OH! WE HAVE TO DO THAT TOO! During one of the meetings they bragged about how they were going to make us a DevOps shop (last week it was Agile, but hey, like I said, they have no clue). How? They hired a single DevOps guy. Yeah, that will ensure that all the independent delivery teams, PDUs, integration teams will become DevOps overnight? They don't know a thing about CI/CD, dev vs qa vs prod, containerization, cloud, automated builds, testing, ... But they hired a single guy. And then they brag about how they "transformed the company." Oh, they transformed it, alright. They ran Ericsson into the ground, and now they run Mediakind into the ground. All while lining their own pockets and living in a multi-million $ mansion, of course.

The executives do not understand how to run a company and seems to lack experience, competence, and/or caring. While management sits in their ivory tower, they set unrealistic expectations for how much work a single person can do. Considering my previous company was known for their lack of work/life balance and I'm used to this expectation, this company is in the extreme! They will not provide you the tools and resources to do the job in a responsible way across so many countries and expect systems to run themselves without human intervention. The end result is extremely overworked and exhausted group, cutting corners to manage the work and still feeling like they are failing in their job, then spending extra time to clean up mistakes. The expectation is that the work is managed according to a Headcount number, and that number cannot increase no matter what the job actually requires. Once you are killing yourself to manage the workload, it's likely that they would not spend the money to hire help for you because it is "getting done", so you will be forced to take sick leave before suffering a mental breakdown or just quit.