74 Senior Product Marketing Manager Reviews

Senior Product Marketing Manager at Instructure

Senior Product Marketing Manager at Samsung

Senior Product Marketing Manager at Lumeris

Senior Product Marketing Manager at Seagate

"Company sometime feels as if they are not fully committed to making great products."

Senior Product Marketing Manager at IBM

"Customer facing versus the mundane product oriented minutia need to ship product."

Senior Product Marketing Manager at St. Jude Medical

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"Working for St. Jude Medical is challenging and demanding. A great place for top talent to learn and develop."

What do you like about working at St. Jude Medical?

"Had the opportunity to work with top brands that changed lives. Presented solutions to multiple stakeholders, including physicians, nurses, C-suite, and GPO administrators. Products were technically complex and always provided new challenges in the sales process."

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

"St. Jude Medical is well diversified, has a good long term plan, and has many competitive advantages. But they have their problems, like any company. Ensure you fully understand the position you are applying for, your manager, and what is expected of you. Burnout is common for many positions."

What don't you like about working at St. Jude Medical?

"The work/ life balance could be improved. Employee moral suffered in recent years due to the economic downturn and need for multiples layoffs."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Engage more with sales people who interact with customers daily and encourage honest feedback. Provide mediums for constructive criticism to maintain anonymity."

Senior Product Marketing Manager at Motorola Solutions

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"Great people, older flawed management styles, owenership by Google = great move."

What do you like about working at Motorola Solutions?

"Very engineering driven and solid diversification in many different industries."

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

"Ensure that your direct team and manager does not buy into the rule by fear but rather is able to stand on sound decision making and is not afraid to do what is best."

What don't you like about working at Motorola Solutions?

"The culture at senior level meetings was rule by fear (cycles of violence and silence) and the ability to plan strategically was limited due to current hot topics taking all the attention and resources."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Every senior manager must make a pact to change the culture as well as a commitment from the Senior Leader Team, both as individuals and hiring an external group to support this change. (monumental task but it can be done... reinventing their company with the same skill set.) seems even more important now that Google owns Motorola Mobility."

Senior Product Marketing Manager at Waters Corp.

What do you like about working at Waters Corp.?

"Opportunities to progress/move around to different parts of the organization. Performance-based reward structure"

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

"Make sure you're applying for a relevant position to your skill set and not wasting the interviewers time."

What don't you like about working at Waters Corp.?

"promotions seem to happen slower than desired at times. Salary and bonuses are industry competitive, but I will not be independently wealthy any time soon."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"There are a few things I would change, but overall I cannot complain"

Senior Product Marketing Manager at AT&T

What do you like about working at AT&T?

"AT&T is a big company to provide services in different areas. You can find the areas that you have interest in."

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

"AT&T provides different services for different needs, from enterprise customers, small businesses, to residence. You need to find out which area you have most interest."

What don't you like about working at AT&T?

"AT&T is too big with a complex HR structure. Hard to get promoted."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Encourage people to find interested areas to grow the professional experience."

Senior Product Marketing Manager at Blue Coat Systems

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"An interestng experience. Hope never to have last manager again."

What do you like about working at Blue Coat Systems?

"A good technology. Providing a service that helps people is a good thing."

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

"Be positive. Don't accept an offer without chatting with others about who you would be reporting to."

What don't you like about working at Blue Coat Systems?

"Very political environment in the marketing organization. Insecure individuals who have been there awhile who consider making suggestions to their work an insult. They'll undermine you."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Review everyone in the company. If there is going to be another survey, use the results."

Senior Product Marketing Manager at Demand Media Studios

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"Ruled by groupthink. No idea how to build a valuable product."

What do you like about working at Demand Media Studios?

"Good pay. Ok, it's just all right. But better than a startup."

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

"Ask yourself, why There are other places that will be more satisfying."

What don't you like about working at Demand Media Studios?

"CEO, most of the senior staff. Driven by consensus and groupthink. Never stops to think about anything. Not many smart people at top."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Sell the company already. Move on. Move out. Get on to the next large, almost win."

Senior Product Marketing Manager at Logitech

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"Fantastic company while the market was strong"

What do you like about working at Logitech?

"great products; high-quality, exciting consumer electronics and OEM PC products"

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

"This company was an exciting and market leading consumer electronics and PC peripheral device manufacturer. It will regain its market position soon."

What don't you like about working at Logitech?

"price negotiations with OEM commodity managers was tedious and monotonous"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"drive your technology toward mobile devices, tablet PC and their desktop environments"

Senior Product Marketing Manager at Synaptics

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"Interesting technology. Industry leader with World-wide presence."

What do you like about working at Synaptics?

"Interesting technology. Industry leader. The company is looking to expand its core technology."

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

"Solid company. Good technology. Very intelligent personnel. A quality organization."

What don't you like about working at Synaptics?

"Lack of growth opportunities. The company needs to invest in more resources (personnel)."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Develop your personnel. Provide growth opportunities. Invest in more personnel to offset the new business opportunities that the company is accepting."

Senior Product Marketing Manager at Sharp Electronics

What do you like about working at Sharp Electronics?

"Very good products and corporate reputation. Decent pay scale and benefits"

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

"Understand the differences between the thinking process, goals and culture of Japanese verses Anglo management."

What don't you like about working at Sharp Electronics?

"Dual management model. Lack of management support. Six month fiscal."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Very good products and corporate reputation. Decent pay scale and benefits Better alignment of Japanese and Anglo senior management goals and expectations."

Senior Product Marketing Manager at Symantec

What do you like about working at Symantec?

"Compensation was fairly competitive. Good location in Mountain View. Cafe wasn't too bad. It's not free or anything but I enjoyed the food."

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

"Research, research, research. I got into an area I really didn't have experience in by researching the heck out of the products."

What don't you like about working at Symantec?

"The Storage and Availability business was one of the most toxic places to work. Management was downright disrespectful to employees. There was a lot of instances where employees were cussed out by management. One instance where a pen was thrown at an employee by senior director. Another where an employee was cussed out because a senior manager thought he ordered a drink for himself during a customer happy hour event. I should mention that none of this happened to me, just my colleagues. Much more of tactical position. LOTS of creating powerpoint decks for management. Career development is not a focus here. You're not really expected to make your opinion known for the first 2 years. That's just the way it is.I think the biggest thing to understand about Symantec and this particular business unit, is that Sr. Product Marketing Manager is not an MBA position. The treatment and level of responsibility for a graduate out of MBA school is not appropriate and if that's what you are looking for, then look elsewhere."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Symantec seems like a pretty good place to work outside of the Storage and Availability business. Try to replicate the working environment in the Backup team. You've lost just a ton of employees in the past 6 months. The attrition rate is fairly high. Dig into the data to figure out what's going on. Keep up the compensation. That's what is stemming the tide right now."