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      Mastercard

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      4.1

      82% would recommend to a friend

      (7,699 total reviews)
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      Michael Miebach

      87% approve of CEO

      81% positive business outlook

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      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Senior management

      Mastercard has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 7,699 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Mastercard employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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      8K reviews
      3.0
      Apr 13, 2010

      Historically has paid well with profit sharing. Can be a frustrating place to work

      Business leader
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      Pros

      MasterCard does pay well in comparison to other companies and there are a great number of bright people.

      Cons

      MasterCard has become way too risk averse. they won't fire people who should be let go, they take forever to make a decision and move forward with initiatives and there are too many cross functional work streams that aren't truly empowered to get anything done.

      4.0
      Apr 1, 2010

      My expectations were wrong

      Vice president
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      CEO approval
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      Pros

      When I thought about joining MasterCard, I had reservations. It appeared to be a good place to go if you had decided you wanted to coast along, and do a minimal amount of work. But my interview, and my subsequent job experience proved otherwise. MasterCard is full of bright people, who are energetic and know the industry. With rare exception, I was impressed by the people I met, their backgrounds and the competency they brought to the tasks at hand. For people who are interested in the payments space, it's a great place to work.

      Cons

      On the other hand, I would say that MasterCard is unnecessarily bureaucratic for an organization of its size. Because of the incentive system and other factors, there's a lot of turf battles, less than needed coordination, and inefficiencies. However, there is a concerted effort (and there has been for many years) to change that. The IPO appeared to also change how the business was run--more risk adversion, more of a short term focus, more attention to boosting the daily stock price.

      3.0
      Mar 24, 2010

      Out with the old

      Senior business leader
      Recommend
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      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Truly global company with many opportunities to work with and in other countries. Good pay for the job.

      Cons

      Executive Management are essentially people who grew up in the old association and therefore have no idea how to be leaders in a "real" company. And no context to know what they don't know

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