Pros
People: Hard working, wicked smart, minimally jerky, collaborative attitudes
Products: We offer it all. DR & Brand products, various creative formats (display, video, native, internal designed creative s), targeting off proprietary first-party data plus ability to work with DMPs & custom audience providers.
Food: catered lunches, daily breakfast items (cereals, fruit, etc), company meeting breakfasts, monthly happy hours, and other random events.
Fun: ping pong, pool table, arcade game, PS4 (XBOX?) room, quarterly team activities
Phone: Monthly stipend for phone bills + $ to help expense a new phone (every 2 years)
Maternity/Paternity Leave: In addition to time off, $ to help w/expenses, ramp back period for primary caregiver (moms who deliver), specific rooms (plural) for pumping
Cons
People: Some Quantcasters don't realize how lucky we are to be at a company full of people willing to help one another. I've observed time & time again isolated incidents where people are desperate to hit their goals in sales, product, etc. Instead of communicating pain points and working to solve these issues, people sometimes choose to either emote their stress & frustration onto others. Or, worst yet, don't give constructive direct feedback where needed.
Quantcast needs to solve this problem and it starts with executive leadership in the way they treat their senior managers which trickles down to their managers then their direct reports. We can hold our people accountable & help our teams adapt to change in a positively constructive way. It doesn't matter if we engineer or provide the best digital programmatic products & services for our customers. If we don't address the unneeded stress, Quantcast will continue to lose talented individuals who will get fed up with the struggle. I've seen it happen. People who are stretched thin don't need an excuse to leave. Recognize these people and reward their behavior. Don't push more onto them or ignore resourcing needs.
We are a company heading in a very exciting direction. Konrad & Peter Day are leading an initiative to make Quantcast top of class in their industry and it will happen.
