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      StackAdapt

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      StackAdapt Reviews

      3.5

      61% would recommend to a friend

      (356 total reviews)
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      Vitaly Pecherskiy

      78% approve of CEO

      63% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.8

      Diversity and inclusion

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Culture and values

      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Senior management

      StackAdapt has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 356 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The StackAdapt 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

      356 reviews
      1.0
      22 Sept 2016

      Let's be real

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Decent pay - Yes, they pay decently. Macbooks - New/newish macbooks and dual monitors. Downtown location - you're in the centre of the industry! Free Monday lunches - You get $15 for lunch every Monday.

      Cons

      You know how you see all these glowing reviews of this company? The upper management actually asks every employee to write a review and obviously you can't write one with a poor review. Take these reviews with a grain of salt! Poor management - none of them have experience managing people so their approach to employees are horrible and you will feel belittled. Just check management's LinkedIn history. And they micromanage a lot. Messages can go up to a couple hundreds a day asking for tiny details. There is no trust in employees, even if they claim they do. No work/life balance - You get messages from management even past midnight and weekends. You're not officially required to work them but really you are required to work them. No solid direction of company - strategy for the company changes every month. Internal processes change every few weeks that employees just can't keep up. There's no stability. Culture - they try to create a "fun" culture but if you're having fun, you are going to be punished. The culture is just an illusion. You're not meant to have fun. Don't let them tempt you with the "fun perks"! Meetings - Every meeting by the CEO runs overtime. Not just 10-15 mins overtime, sometimes it's 1-2 hours overtime! Not to mention, most of us are standing in the crowded meeting room. The information being talked about is irrelevant to most people and are just repeated over and over again in different wording! We can go without so many meetings and talks. It's not motivating us, it's just torture. You may think that I'm just a former employee holding a grudge but honestly, ask any employee there about what I pointed out above that ISN'T from management. Oh and expect the CEO to reply to this review defending the criticisms (aka blaming everything on being a startup) rather than improving the company culture.

      1.0
      20 Sept 2016

      We are asked to write these reviews!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - A collection of smart and capable employees find themselves at StackAdapt. Unfortunately, this is also somewhat of a con, because they end up being frustrated due to management practices and if they voice any opinion they are effectively cast away. - Good Tech Stack - They really care about what people say about them and try to protect their reputation, by any means necessary, even if it's shady practices. Any time a review goes up, you can expect some doors to be closed and some meetings to happen.

      Cons

      - Management twists their employees hands to write positive reviews. It makes one feel dirty as it truly sullies the reason for review sites to exist. - If you are a potential employee, use your discretion to recognize which of these reviews are real and which reviews have been forced. Being asked to write a positive review rather than my actual opinion is questionable at best. - It is as if management watched a comedy about startups and try to emulate it. The startup culture here is not real. It is forced. Closed door policy is the reality, any opinion coming from anyone is looked on with suspicion. - I am not very in tune with the revenue generation model of the company, but I have certainly heard whispers about numbers being doctored to mislead clients. - Beware of "fun" and "perks" if you take advantage you are looked down on as if you are not doing your job.

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      StackAdapt Response
      9y
      Thanks for your review. Sorry to hear that you felt forced to leave a review here- that is definitely not my intention when asking for reviews. Encouraging employees to leave reviews is a common practice- we need to take advantage of the opportunity to get the true spirit and voice of our employees represented and most are happy to write a review because it means they will help the company attract great talent and their future co-workers; they have a stake in it, too. I would also suggest that you talk to one of the leaders from the revenue team so that you can understand that model and the way our numbers are generated and transparent to the customers. Our culture and engagement of employees is very important to us, please send me a note and we'll chat offline about how we can make things even better. Happy to chat more in person if you feel comfortable doing so, or to have you take part in our next engagement survey from Fortay if you'd rather not identify yourself— the goal is to track team member engagement so we can take the necessary steps to make sure that employees are happy with their work, team, and company. -Natalia
      2.0
      21 Feb 2024

      The cracks are starting to show - Tread Lightly

      Account manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      I've met some cool co-workers who are good people and who do good work. Good remote-first work culture.

      Cons

      Where do I even begin? There have been so many changes over the past year, from more responsibilities being added to current roles to more recently commission structures being changed that negatively affect employees' earnings. At least be honest and not gaslight us into thinking this will benefit us... We will know for sure after Q1 commissions are paid out but the overall sentiment around these changes is not positive across every single person we've talked to. Leadership is completely incompetent and has a severe lack of communication and accountability. Turnover across client-facing roles is very high. So many people who I was onboarded with are long gone now as well as many higher level positions leaving the company over the past year... C-Suite, VPs, Directors, etc.... I wonder why?? I have a prediction that you will begin to see more low ratings like this over the next few months. Do better! Good luck to everyone else still here.

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