Working at Monster.com in Maynard, MA: 8 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Maynard, MA Area

"I've been with Monster for 13+ years. I started before the bubble broke. I've seen good times and I've seen bad times. I can honestly say I loved my job. With recent business decisions, I have only started to look for a new job. I understand what the company has to do. They are doing what is best for the company, stock holders etc etc. It just does not work for me."

"Led strategy for Monster worldwide helping expand into new markets."

What do you like about working at Monster.com?

"Great name recognition based on decade of Internet leadership. Historically valuable."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Ask for examples of how failure is handled to understand the corporate culture. Always ask if their offer is the best they can do. There's always more available."

What don't you like about working at Monster.com?

"Senior management is not trustworthy, has failed vision, no direction, has underperformed for past 5+ years."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Fire the CEO and his cronies and bring in people who know the industry. Set a mission to be a great place to work, and practice what you should be preaching."

"Extremely dysfunctional company operating in panic mode."

What do you like about working at Monster.com?

"It pays many people very well for what their job is -- too well."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Consider it only as a short-term option. This company isn't in it for the long haul."

What don't you like about working at Monster.com?

"The teams I worked on were extremely dysfunctional, full of petty in-fighting, a lack of cooperation, an obsession with innovative brainstorming while never actually doing any work. Group-think, far too many stakeholders on every project, a complete lack of understanding at higher levels of how a modern Internet company should work. This company is lumbering along into extinction."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management team demands sycophants and yes-men, and there is high turnover in mid-management: in one year, I had three managers (one got fired in a fit of anger, one quit in a fit of anger)."

"Great company, little growth potential."

What do you like about working at Monster.com?

"The experienced I gained working with so many talented sales people."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself, and demand that you know the territory you will sell into before you start."

What don't you like about working at Monster.com?

"The sales culture has changed over the last two years."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Lets truly be a technology company. Today we are a media company trying to be a technology company."

"Monster has been going through serious change in the last 1 1/2 years"

What do you like about working at Monster.com?

"Smaller entities could function like start-ups with cash behind them. TRAK was fast-paced and innovative in many areas yet still a laid back place that offered a challenge"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"No one will be interviewing for Monster anytime soon."

What don't you like about working at Monster.com?

"Only recently did Monster start to falter and that was due to money issue. If the economy had been okay Monster would be the best place to work and I'd still be at TRAK: I probably would never leave"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"People were brought in just to close down some of the smaller companies owned by Monster. This caused a lot of conflict and destroyed moral."

What do you like about working at Monster.com?

"Working with different technologies. Moved around to different roles"