Perks and culture are paltry in comparison to the rest of the industry - we're talking several orders of magnitude. Yet they continue to boast 2000-era salaries & rewards as if they are current.
Willful loss or dismissal of several promising and now very succesful people in 2013, followed by the departure of their CTO in 2014 demonstrates a lack of vision and commitment to staff. Good employers tend to attract and retain talent, not accumulate and then shed it suddenly.
Perfectly well intentioned staff are treated as fair game when management has need of a scapegoat. In the past, they've also tried to rationalize away negative staff reviews via one on one meetings. A high-pressure and suspicious alternative to simply owning their problems.
As a developer who has experienced it, every stage of any process is a struggle for Metric Marketing. Staff are expected to take on the stresses of ownership without reaping even a fraction of the benefits. Fixation on billable hours creates an atmosphere of perpetual panic and negativity that results in only one mode: crisis. All of this plays back into the absence of career prospects at Metric Marketing. Staff spend most of their time putting out small fires as opposed to learning smarter ways to do work and as a result, don't grow.
Contempt towards current and former staff comes up from time to time and is another tactic used to sidestep meeting internal challenges head on. Cheesy dog-whistle terms like "positivity" and "passion" are cheapened through divisive overuse, despite being nowhere to be found at Metric Marketing.
