Working at MarkMonitor in Boise, ID: 2 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Boise, ID Area

"The work is frantic and sometimes driven by unrealistic & non-technical customers, but the work is rewarding and the environment friendly. The company was recently acquired by mega-corp Thomson-Reuters, so the MarkMonitor brand and holdings are having some corporate growing pains as it fits into the new parent company's structure. Technical management is based out of the San Francisco office, and as such there is some significant detachment from the customers (Boise) and the engineering staff in SanFran. This relationship is further stressed by language barriers and personality conflicts among the QA & engineering staff. If you can work on the same site as the rest of your team and management then you will be much better off."

What do you like about working at MarkMonitor?

"I really enjoyed the other developers I worked with, many are really salt of the earth"

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

"Be completely honest with your skill levels. Interviewing as a SQL guru and not being able to write SQL or configure SQL systems, will not get you much support from the others around."

What don't you like about working at MarkMonitor?

"With the amount of management churn as we have had, and the lack of understanding of the sustaining sw engineering position, I would say that in the end, management is more concerned with their bottom line than the growth of their engineers at this point in time."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would say they need to step back and consider growing their engineers and not using and abusing their engineers. We have had 6 engineers leave in the last 4 months."