Amenities: great. People: terrible. - Anonymous employee Specific Media Employee Review

1.0
14 Dec 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free fully stocked kitchen with salads, cold case of beverages, coffee machines that grind the beans per order, chest of tea bags, chips, cookies, candy, trail mix, jerky, fruit, bagel Fridays, espresso, catered lunches for meetings, etc. If you ever get a chance to visit the Myspace office, they have their own in-house cafe where food is prepared to-order (something like $15 credit per day to spend on any food/drinks/snacks there). The amenities are pretty sweet. Benefits were also covered 100%.

Cons

When asked what you love about your job, most would answer that it's the people. Usually, that's the case for me. Well, this simply wasn't true at Specific media. I'm positive that this varies greatly by department, but the one I joined was filled with a bunch of employees who exuded the awful attitude of "it's everyone for themselves." The department was unfortunately run by a narcissist, and that person's penchant for office politics and power trips noticeably influenced the behaviors of the department's employees (and definitely not in a good way). Working there felt like I was beating my dignity to death with a shovel. No amount of free food was worth that.

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12 Oct 2021
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Pros

I really enjoyed my time there.

Cons

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3.0
15 Nov 2010
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Pros

You'll definitely get lots of interesting projects in a challenging timeframe. Management is flexible with regard to time off, and my direct management, at least, was very results driven. Salaries, while just a little bit low, are reasonably competitive. Snacks are provided, lunch is catered every month, and the holiday parties are quite the shindigs. If you are on the right team senior management will leave you alone to do your job.

Cons

Senior management at this company values saving face and making money above *all* else. However, because of this, they tend to cut off their nose to spite their face. Terrible management and resource allocation decisions are made for political reasons, and sometimes for no discernable reason at all. A geographically diverse management structure makes for turf wars and resource starvation for critical infrastructure, and while HR is well intentioned and competent, their influence is very much limited with senior management. Because of that, extremely abusive situations have happened and took much longer than necessary to rectify, causing a significant amount of turnover and brain drain.

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