Does MediaVision pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, MediaVision employees rate their compensation and benefits as 2.9 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at MediaVision. This rating has improved by 5% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at MediaVision?

46% of MediaVision employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated MediaVision 2.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.0 for culture and values and 3.0 for career opportunities.

What are the pros of working at MediaVision according to real employee reviews?

"The team is also extremely accommodating to my life as a working mother of two young children" ((in 3 reviews)); "The people are awesome, the agency is awesome, the work is awesome." ((in 3 reviews)); "Very little, some great team members" ((in 3 reviews))

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MediaVision Reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(31 total reviews)

Louis Venter

30% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.0

Culture and values

3.0

Diversity and inclusion

3.0

Career opportunities

2.9

Senior management

2.9

Compensation and benefits

2.8

Work/Life balance

MediaVision has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 31 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MediaVision employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

31 reviews

2.0

1 Mar 2024

Overworked and underpaid

Anonymous employee

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Business outlook

Pros

Incredibly talented and kind coworkers Central office

Cons

MediaVision has a huge overworking culture which is widely known and normalised. They have a severe lack of career development where you have to beg for pay rises or progression. They put a million processes in place that makes your daily work life harder and not easier. The processes also change 5 times a month, so it’s hard to keep up with. MediaVision is a vacuum that is unable to see that it is incredibly far behind industry standard, in every way.

MediaVision Response

Thank you for taking the time to share this feedback with us. We’re glad that you enjoyed working as a part of our talented and friendly team – which is something that we’re very proud of here at MediaVision. I’m sorry to hear that it wasn’t all a positive experience for you. We’ve taken many pro-active steps, particularly over the last 6 months, to ensure that people are not feeling overstretched, and we have recently simplified our hours planning process to allow a more realistic view of capacity across the team. Adding additional team members in busy areas is always a priority, and we are building a bank of experienced freelancers to step in to support the team when necessary. We appreciate that too many processes can become confusing, and we are currently working hard to streamline them where can and keep things as friction-free as possible. We have celebrated a number of internal promotions over the last 18 months (please check out our team on LinkedIn) and supported some very successful internal moves. I’m sorry to hear that the chance for development didn’t come your way and I would be keen to learn more about this and how we might be able to improve in this area. Please feel free to contact me directly to discuss. We wish you all the best. Natalie Bell, People Director

4.0

30 Apr 2024

A wild, fun ride.

Anonymous employee

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Pros

- No matter how much the people here drag down your self-esteem and make you think you can't do better than MediaVision, the sheer amount of career-competency stories attained from working here will make you an attractive candidate for all the jobs you apply for once you start trying to escape this shithole. - You'll also have an array of comedic stories to tell your friends at dinner parties once the trauma wears off. This is an insanely character-building place to work at. - Working here might as well be a video game: Level 1.) Lovebombing: making you feel special when they're trying to recruit you into their cult. Bonus points if you're a naive junior or graduate who's too desperate for a job to have standards. Level 2.) A test. Do you fit into the inner circle? Do you have any relatives here? Close friends? A masochistic attitude to work? If the answer is yes, you're powerful enough to win the game. If the answer is no, well brace yourself for the next level. Level 3.) You start to notice some off-things about the company. Your colleagues start being more transparent and the plastered smiles begin to wear off. Level 3.) You make a mistake. After that, you're marked. Anything else that goes wrong after that will be your fault and you go from Perfect New Employee to another victim of this blame game. Level 4.) You begin taking part in the blame-game yourself because you're afraid of getting fired. All this anxiety just causes you to make even more mistakes. By this point, the smiles on your colleagues are completely gone. They're not even faking it anymore and they're ready to attack if you make one more wrong move. Level 5.) All out war: this is when your mental health starts to truly depricate. The job will take over your life. You start to see their time sheets in your sleep. Nightmares of those daily standups and your manager's voice crying out to you. Every. Minute. Must. Be. Logged. New policies come in for deliberately goading people into resigning. You were told the company is remote? Nah, start coming into the London office even though you live six hours away. If you can't do it, see you. Sorry, we can't give you a pay raise so that you can just move closer to the office. Still, you try to stick it out because you don't even have enough time to fully commit applying for other jobs, and you don't want to quit without having another job lined up. Don't worry, you're marked anyway. The beauty of this place is that if you don't have the power to leave, they'll make sure do it eventually. Level 6: Either through an easy escape or losing the all out war and being fired. You're out. Congratulations. You've completed the Game of MediaVision. You're a new person. The job world is your oyster now. It can only go up from here!

Cons

There are none. Heck, look at all the pros of working here :)

MediaVision Response

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. It’s concerning that you left MediaVision feeling this way and I encourage you to get in touch with me directly to discuss your experience in more detail. Thank you, Natalie Bell - People Director

2.0

4 Mar 2024

Expect to be overworked and underpaid with no progression

Anonymous employee

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Business outlook

Pros

There are some very kind people who work at the agency. You get to work with some great brands.

Cons

The company continuously talks about having a strong culture which is core to the agency but the culture is one of normalising being overworked with very little support. The office is constantly filled with gossip and your personal information is regularly communicated with people is shouldn't be. The workplace is very inaccessible, with offices chosen without taking access requirements into account. Whilst the client leads try their best, they are overstretched and not very well-equipped to be able to manage accounts effectively. The agency over promises and under delivers which leaves staff feeling like they are constantly failing. Staff are always overworked and regularly putting in more than the hours they're paid for which adds to a feeling of overwhelm and personal failure. When things go wrong there isn't a 'how can we fix it' mentality, instead it is a mentality of blame. Senior members of the agency have been known to make members of the agency feel very belittled, to the point of crying, with no acknowledgment or apology. Promotions and progression are spoken about often but there is always an excuse as to why the progression can't happen 'yet' with expectations which fall outside of your job role often cited as a 'reason'. Flexible working isn't flexible and you are extremely micromanaged, to the point of having your time logging and task list called out to the entire agency on a daily basis. They push staff out or simply fire them, you never feel safe and secure in your position and you constantly feel on edge in your job security. When being put in this position you are also often isolated from employees through the gossip and exposure of personal information the office carries. Your mental health will suffer significantly and very few people leave the agency on good terms with everyone. Ideas and contributions to better the agency aren't taken on board and are often ignored. Employee success isn't rewarded, the agency will make you sit once a month to listen to how well we're doing with a laughable bonus structure to back this up. There is a clear 'inner circle', if you're in you're in and if you're out good luck to you.

MediaVision Response

Thank you for taking the time to share this feedback with us. We’re glad that you enjoyed working with our brilliant roster of clients, alongside some great colleagues. I’m sorry to hear that it wasn’t all a positive experience for you. It’s important to us that every team member receives a consistent level of support and the opportunity to develop in their role. With this in mind, our management team have recently completed a management training programme to help develop and enhance their skills in this area. As a business, we’re proud of the number of internal promotions that have happened over the last 18 months (please check out our team on LinkedIn), and the career development opportunities that have come from internal team moves, so I’m disappointed to hear that the chance for development didn’t come your way. With regards to workload levels, as a small but fast paced agency, we are continually reviewing our processes to ensure that we have a clear picture of capacity in the team, and we have recently updated our hours planning process to support this. Our hybrid working model (2 days in the office/3 from home) is designed to offer flexibility and shows the trust that we have in our teams to work efficiently and effectively from home. Whilst some of your comments are not accurate based on current practices (e.g. the reference to "having your time logging and task list called out") work/life balance means a lot to us, and your feedback indicates to me that there could still be more work to do here. I have raised them with our recently appointed Ops Director, so they have this insight. Furthermore, I invite any current employees with concerns about their workload to reach out to me directly. They are also welcome to do so anonymously via our Employee Council, if that’s preferred. In reference to the company bonus scheme, despite the more challenging economic climate over the last year or so, we've taken every possible step to ensure that the majority of our team receive a bonus payment (paid out twice last year), at a time when many other businesses haven't been able to. The bonus scheme is based on both company performance and individual performance. Company performance is communicated to all employees on a monthly basis (and the CEO and Managing Partner offer an 'open door' policy to anyone who would like to learn more) and individual performance is discussed through monthly 1-2-1 meetings with managers. We will continue to review this process to ensure that the appropriate level of communication and clarity is being provided relating to bonuses and overall performance. We value all of our current and former employees’ feedback and would be keen to learn more about your experience and where you feel things could have been better and how we can improve. Please feel free to contact me directly to discuss. We wish you all the best. Natalie Bell, People Director

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