SteelHouse Reviews

3.8

76% would recommend to a friend

(92 total reviews)
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Mark Douglas

77% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

SteelHouse has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 92 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SteelHouse 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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92 reviews
2.0
9 Oct 2016

Company falling apart and on the down trend

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible vacation day policy, 2k vacation allowance, decent expense policy for the sales team and some quality personalities to work with

Cons

Company is being looked at like liars & cheats since the big Criteo lawsuit came up in mid 2016. Company does not have great differentiating technology, but does quality creative work. The rumors of frat like behavior is true and it stems all the way from upper management down to the actual frat boys doing figurative keg stands each day. Tense work environment now with many clients running in the other direction.

1.0
15 Sept 2017

Just cash out, stop trying to write code

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A salary and health benefits. Stuff you can get from any tech job.

Cons

The company has a history of massive and sudden layoffs. The company lacks all will to see whatever direction it has through to completion. Steelhouse's wheelhouse has never been and will never be software development. Every single task is approached as a temporary fix to survive the day or a hacked together solution that cannot scale and will assuredly break. Architecture, or any semblance of it, is mentioned, dreamed of, fantasized about, then chucked out the window by boneheaded business pivots or incompetent and shortsighted engineering management. The result is a collection of disparate hodge podge projects that lack cohesive architecture or development methodology. Nothing worth acquiring populates its rancid portfolio of code. As a software developer this place will stagnate your career -- you are trapped between banging out emergency code for last-minute "do this or the company dies" projects and dealing with the gossipy, back stabby, corrosive interpersonal culture that dominates both offices.

1.0
31 July 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

This place has a fun college vibe so if you're looking to keep the college days going with lots of alcohol then it's for you.

Cons

If you're looking to get into sales this is a horrible place to start. They bait you with the "MBA of Sales" and then give you two weeks of programmatic 101 and throw you into the boiler room. You'll be chasing touch points and sending cold emails until you're sick to death of it. The sales leadership will pigeonhole you into selling basic offerings and not even allowing you to push the whole breadth of capabilities. If your clients site doesn't have enough traffic they won't even let you sell them anything. They're also not a real tech company. They white label the Trade Desk so clients are really just paying extra to use that DSP. Turnover rates on the sales team are insane and all the top salesmen left after they got sued for fraudulent campaign activity.

SteelHouse Response
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First, SteelHouse is a technology company that offers marketers a sophisticated advertising management platform, which leverages our relationships with many partners including The Trade Desk and Facebook. We are not a media reseller or agency. By using our technology marketers are able to manage and optimize large-scale multi-channel campaigns that drive measurable results. Second, sales is not for everyone, but every successful salesperson remembers the learning curve and hard work of their early days. Selling an ad solution to informed marketers requires a working knowledge of digital advertising as well as knowledge of the SteelHouse offering. Our ninety-day ramping program combines industry and product education with a progressive mentor program. More than 90% of our reps graduate the program and start generating sales against their own accounts within their very first month selling. To some of your other inaccuracies: - The SteelHouse platform is built for brands with appreciable traffic and an interest in getting the most from multi-channel campaigns. Brands that don’t meet our basic criteria are excluded from the sales process to better serve the needs of our perspective clients and save time. - Unlike other departments, every effective sales team is guided by sales performance. SteelHouse is no different. While we do naturally churn underperformers, we’re proud of our exceptional retention rate and still count many of our earliest team members as current team members. Lastly, to your, “Pros,” I can only offer that SteelHouse in a large part owes its success to its culture. We are a team of devoted professionals that enjoy a positive environment, which balances hard work with style and fun. I am truly sorry that you had a bad experience here, but I felt the need to set the record straight. Wishing you the best of luck in your next endeavor. - SteelHouse
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