Rokt reviews

Where to start. Honestly, I was so excited to join Rokt, having heard so much about their amazing company culture, working for a "disrupter" of sorts, the fact that they took awesome trips. I was willing to put in the hard work and effort to reap these amazing benefits. Then came the shock of my life. I've worked at a few other companies, so by no means was this my first job out of college. In addition, I've had more than a few managers (some great, some not so great), so I think it was fair to say that I had a relatively wide scale on which to judge upon. Management - HR brags about "training" and ensuring that all managers (Especially middle managers, perhaps the MOST important), have the support they need. Ironically, many of the managers there are just the ones that have been "lucky" enough to still be at the company - internal hires that took the managerial route because it seemed like the next best thing. It should be noted that just because you CAN be a manager, doesn't mean you should be! A handful of emotionally unintelligent, micro-managing, and insecure "leaders". Not to mention that when it comes to leadership (and really just anyone in a management position), everyone does their best to remain the CEO's "favorite". Truthfully from the outside (and bottom of the food chain, seeing as the CEO is basically a dictator), it's comical and pathetic to watch. One of Rokt's core values is "Smart with Humility" - lol are you kidding me? The number of egos that get past the door - it's actually mindblowing. Culture - a JOKE (and a half). I can't believe I was forced to succumb to adult high-school. If you're not part of the clique, AKA, a group of individuals that think they're way cooler than they actually are (big fish in a small pond), then you're an outsider. Truthfully, I had no desire to be a part of this because it was hard to hear & watch all the backstabbing and manipulative gossip that spread across the org. Lastly, the favoritism is sickening. Again, if you're in with the in-crowd, you're probably fine, but anyone else standing up for themselves, well...you might be in for a rude awakening. Rokt also underpays and overworks their employees. Their "generous" PTO policy is not generous at all - you accrue and start at 0, while accruing 1 day per month (so you do the math). If all of this sounds great to you, then awesome - you might kill it here. But for the rest - don't believe the PR! This place is TOXIC.

-Not flexible with working from home -Pressure to come into work while sick (leadership team including the CEO came into the office visibly ill on multiple occasions, which created an environment where staff felt they needed to do the same) -Certain roles were ignored by the business and treated (in 3 years of employment, I received one employee award, despite exceeding my targets dramatically and repeatedly and growing my part of the business. Engineers who'd stayed with the business as little as 9 months received 2 or 3 awards while I was there. I also received no card to say thank you for my three years of service when I left, no recognition that I was leaving at my final all-staff meeting I attended where departing employees typically got a chance to say a goodbye speech and received a card and flowers, and so left feeling a bit heartbroken about that. -It can be costly: we were often asked to buy items for work purposes with our own money. We could then claim that back and receive the money back from the company a month later. This is ok if you are a high paid employee or have a comfortable home situation, but when you are financially struggling and have personal debt, it's incredibly hard. There was also an awesome employee training scheme to encourage you to take up extra learning by doing external courses relevant to your job up to the value of $2000 that I would have really liked to access while I was there, but I was sadly never able to because we were required to pay that course cost out of our own pockets upfront and could only claim it back later. Hopefully this system has since changed.