Quantcast Senior Software Developer reviews

4.6

99% would recommend to a friend

(12 total reviews)
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Konrad Feldman

99% approve of CEO

11% positive business outlook

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5.0
Jan 26, 2020
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Pros

Company Outlook: Quantcast enjoyed tremendous growth before 2016 but the growth plateaued in the last three years, much of it could be attributed to the changing digital ad tech landscape and the increasing lack of product-market fit. However, there is convincing evidence that our new suite of products is heading for a promising direction and we have a clear mission and a clear strategy to execute that mission. The entire product and engineering orgs have been working hard in 2019 and we are starting to see some results: our customers love our new beta product. 2020 will be an exciting time for Quantcast. Personal Growth & Impact: We have a fairly small engineering team for the size of the problem Quantcast is trying to solve. As an engineer, you will certainly have a large impact on the product and the company. Your peers also tend to be really smart and collaborative. Benefits: Pay is quite competitive for engineering, especially after the pay bump in early 2019. Standard bay-area tech company snacks and catered lunch. Dinner reimbursement if work past 7. Pool table, ping-pong, arcade, game room, office yoga/meditation/subsidized massage. Really nice rooftop. Good work-life balance.

Cons

For any company that wants to shift product directions, there is likely pain during the transition. Much of the pain was felt in 2018 and 2019 as evident in other reviews. There is also the common risk of working in a pre-IPO private company: your stock options can worth millions if Quantcast can beat out competitions like TTD, or nothing if it fails to execute its mission.

5.0
Aug 30, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Have heard this inside and outside of Quantcast that the bar is high and really really smart engineers are working alongside each other. - The impact, scope of problems and type of challenges you get exposed to are pretty unparalleled across the industry. You work on the same category of problems the top 1% at Google work on. - You have a lot of freedom to work on the problems you like, and engineering managers are asked to not assign people to projects they dislike, or won't make them grow - Quantcast invests in engineer's growth. The management culture here is such that projects and services push people out of their comfort zone so they can learn. Company compensates for workshops, seminars and training material - Work life balance is pretty great. Working from home is pretty common, and there's never pressure towards working over time. - Steady revenue; company has been profitable without raising capital since forever - Quantcast is an ethical ad-tech company. We don't do the bad stuff the big names do.

Cons

- Compensation doesn't compete with the companies stealing talent from us (Google, Facebook, Uber, etc.) - For a while engineering quality was de-prioritized in favor of business outcome. This led to building unmaintainable crappy services. With the new CTO this culture is changing. - Frequent re-orgs in Sales and Account Management has led to a lot of unhappiness there.

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