Match Group has a 25-year modern love story for sparking human connections around the world. Headquartered in Dallas, TX, the company operates more than 45 dating brands under its portfolio, including Match, OkCupid, Tinder, and Hinge.
Even as a global tech company with 1,200+ employees and offices around the globe, the company still acts like a startup at heart. The teams and employees at Match Group fit a “humble nerd” profile that has helped to build and maintain the company’s startup-like culture. Employees are passionate about the company’s mission, and they are constantly pushing to rethink everything and continue to disrupt the status quo. Innovation and creativity is part of the company’s DNA. Many people don’t know that Tinder was created through an internal accelerator program years ago. The company continues to spin up new apps and products through its +1 Labs program, a lean and agile team of entrepreneurs and engineers tasked with experimenting and accelerating ideas across our diverse portfolio of apps and markets.
Match Group has been able to attract top tech talent because of its innovative culture, central office locations, and enviable employee perks and benefits. They purposefully don’t subscribe to the corporate lifestyle and encourage their employees to quite literally be their best selves. Their dress code is simply “be you!” while encouraging employees to participate in their incentivized ongoing learning program. The company even has its own Happiness Committee devoted to progressing work-life balance and perks while generating quirky celebrations such as “Bring Your Parent to Work Day.”
This year has brought the teams even closer together, strengthening employee connections and culture. In March, the company transitioned its 1200+ employees from the office to 100% work from home. As a company that thrives on being in an open office space, moving to a virtual model was a big adjustment. In the weeks and then months that followed, Match Group has been actively working to keep its culture strong and team members connected through virtual events and check-ins that purposefully put families, particularly working parents, front and center. Company executives encouraged more flexibility, empathy, and patience for all employees, normalizing transparency into lives at home and changing the dynamic of workplace culture for the better.
Finding reasons to celebrate its employees and build stronger connections is a big part of the company culture. Match Group continued this tradition by going virtual this year - hosting themed virtual happy hours, story times with kids, puppy parties, lunch and learns, mindfulness activities, and carrying on the company’s annual Bring Your Kids to Virtual Work from Home Day. Culture at Match Group is truly fueled by the common goal to create love and connections leveraging technology, which is why the company has been able to bring its culture online through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Additionally, the company has worked hard to establish a culture of giving back to their community. During COVID-19, the company made critical donations to organizations like Dinner Bell Foundation and Bonton Farms, and more than half of its Dallas employees participated in a COVID-19 relief matching campaign, donating more than $150,000 to community organizations needing critical support this year.
Creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace is also incredibly important to the company. After the death of George Floyd, the company stood up and spoke out against racial injustice. Being part of the change and solutions to make the world a more equitable place for the Black community is something Match Group has and always will stand for. In the local Dallas community, Match Group made donations to nonprofits fighting for equal justice such as Abounding Prosperity and Mothers Against Police Brutality. Across the company brands, new initiatives launched to elevate Black voices and create dialogue around important issues in the minority community. Match Group also took a closer look at its leadership team and made additions to its Board to improve representation and ensure the company is making equitable and inclusive decisions for employees and users.
Building a great culture must be intentional, which is why Match Group has worked hard to instill this in the office and now at home. Their commitment to fostering an innovative startup culture, while growing into a Fortune 500 company, is their highest priority. In turn, many of their employees stay for more than a decade, quite literally shaping the way the world connects for generations to come.
