Pros
1) Lots of free food 2) OK base salary 3) SKOs in interesting locations 4) Shrewd business people
Cons
This is all just my opinion, but I feel like there was a big difference in what my hiring manager told me my job would be compared to what my job actually was. I was hired as a solutions-seller, and I was looking forward to being a problem solver for my clients, but it was very hard to work with big brands or agencies because I didn't have a product that checked the agency's boxes. Maybe this has changed. All of the deals I did close were with small companies, and of those, many of them had a difficult time making the platform work for them, which lead to "churn and burn." The agency deals I did close had a hard time scaling because, and I never had support I needed to be successful from leadership or my account management team. Sometimes, I felt uncomfortable with how I was being asked to position the product, because in my opinion, it felt like too much of a stretch, or as if I was encouraged not to be transparent with my clients. On the sales side, everything seemed to be tracked to a degree that felt intrusive and overbearing. Obviously, prospecting is important, but there here there was a massive emphasis on outreach using mail merges, email campaigns, and in my opinion, I felt like I was forced to send out spam all day. In my opinion, it seemed like although Taboola might like more money from big brands and agencies, my guess is that they make so much money from DR advertisers and arbitrage publishers, that being brand safe or offering a video solution that has a competitive AVOC or viewability doesn't seem to be a priority. That said, the company is massively successful - there are a lot of articles about Taboola that talk about it being a "billion dollar unicorn." If I were an engineer, I think working at Taboola would be great. But if you are a sales person, just be aware there is a big focus on outreach volume versus nurturing client relationships. I tried to offer feedback, and I know other colleagues agreed, but HR nor my manager seemed to want to help. I think they knew of the problems, but just didn't know the solution.
