MixerBox has a strong reputation, is willing to accept people with no experience, offers high salaries and flexible time off, and most of the time you can manage your own work progress.

I basically agree with the second negative review (the one that does not divide things into pros and cons and hopes to provide a neutral account), but I would like to add a few points:

1. How things are handled (this is also what I find most intolerable):

The way this company handles all kinds of matters is extremely crude. You can tell by looking at the two positive reviews below: there is very obvious suspicion that the company’s HR department posted them itself to create favorable publicity. They mention very superficial and vague advantages—essentially the kind of benefits that would be printed in promotional materials—and gloss over the disadvantages. Who would sincerely want to write a review from an employee’s perspective and publish something like that?

Wouldn’t properly responding to negative reviews and providing explanations be much better than posting such blatantly flawed positive reviews?

But that is just how this company is.

A lot of the time, I feel that management treats everyone like idiots.

For example, they casually post a few favorable reviews and assume that everyone will believe them after reading them.

They also often make statements that seem strange as soon as you think about them a little. However, since specific examples would involve the company’s internal operations, I cannot conveniently give examples here.

2. No systems:

This company has been established for seven years, yet it has no systems in place at all. There is no clear leave policy, no promotion system, no collaboration system, no neutral and effective performance evaluation, and no well-functioning organizational structure, while it continues to claim that it is still in the early stages of a startup.

3. Trainee Program:

The promotional materials state, “We have prepared a comprehensive curriculum for the Trainee Program.” I personally do not agree with this, because in practice they simply give you an online course or various documents and tell you to study them on your own. It is not that I think self-study is bad—I personally strongly support accepting people with no experience—but there is quite a gap between this and the situation portrayed in the promotional materials.

4. Information does not flow freely:

The company emphasizes being trust-based, but a lot of information can only be learned through “hearsay,” or a superior will tell you, “We have many considerations, but I can’t tell you specifically what they are.” In my view, trust-based simply means expecting employees to trust their superiors unconditionally.

5. Staff shortages and product direction:

You can tell from iTunes that this company has multiple apps. In reality, it is severely understaffed, which makes it impossible to develop its products properly. On the other hand, products such as MixerBox and Free Fourth-Generation TV consist of content provided by others, a large portion of which is free content (such as YouTube, etc.). From my perspective, this company really likes this convenient way of doing things: making use of other parties’ resources, or even paying “homage” to them (lol). I suggest that job seekers ask whether the company has a contingency plan if YouTube ever stops providing free content～

【Overall recommendation】

Because this company accepts people with no experience and offers high salaries, it has many recent graduates. However, before joining this company, I strongly recommend thinking about what things will look like when you leave. After staying for three or four years, will you have the ability and experience to become a senior when changing jobs? Can you accumulate experience that requires a certain level of technical expertise? Can you use that experience to negotiate a good salary instead of having to start from the bottom again? Will it be a good stepping stone toward the company or lifestyle you truly want?

Of course, if you want to stay at this company for the rest of your life and believe that it will never go bankrupt in the future, then you do not need to think about these things (lol).

Also, during interviews, ask supervisors or the boss more questions about the company’s future plans—the more practical, the better. This can help you understand whether this kind of work is what you want. Claims about becoming the world’s number-one software giant or surpassing Google and Facebook are slogans, not plans.

In short, based on my work experience and impressions at MixerBox, I strongly do not recommend working there.