Mediaocean's hiring assessment and the CCAT

Mediaocean and the CCAT at a glance

Where the CCAT sits in Mediaocean's hiring process

1. 1

   Application and recruiter contact

   No public reports describe Mediaocean's sequence.

2. 2

   Assessment invite, possibly unnamed

   Invites sometimes say only "online assessment". In a typical Criteria flow, the email links to an unproctored test on Criteria's platform and names Criteria in the sender or link.

3. 3

   CCAT and possibly a personality questionnaire

   If it is the CCAT: 50 questions in 15 minutes, no calculator. Personality questionnaires are a common add-on.

4. 4

   Interviews

   Typically recruiter, hiring manager and team interviews. Not reported for Mediaocean specifically.

Steps are as candidates describe them. Processes change by role and over time.

Can your pace reach Mediaocean's target?

The numbers below use our estimate for Mediaocean: a range of 27 to 30 out of 50 with a target of 28. Nothing is saved. If you ask Clever below, it sees your numbers.

About Mediaocean

Mediaocean makes software that advertising agencies and brands use to plan, buy, track and pay for media.

Prep sites describe Mediaocean as a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company and list it alongside other Vista companies that reportedly use Criteria tests. Our Vista Equity Partners page gathers those reports. Treat a portfolio connection as a hint, not proof.

When the invite does not name the test

Many invites say "please complete our online assessment" and nothing more. Before you prepare for the CCAT specifically, find out which test you are taking. Three checks usually settle it.

If none of those settle it, prepare for the CCAT anyway. Timed math, verbal and logic practice carries over to most general aptitude tests, so the work is not wasted.

• Look at the sender and the link. Criteria tests usually come from Criteria's platform and name it.
• Check the instructions for the format. The CCAT is 50 questions in 15 minutes.
• Reply to the recruiter and ask which assessment it is and roughly how long it takes. That is a normal question.

Adtech roles and the skills the test touches

Adtech work is detail work. Media plans, insertion orders and invoices have to match line by line, and a wrong digit costs a client money. That is close to what the CCAT's exact-match items test: compare two strings and spot the one that differs.

Percentages show up everywhere too: budget pacing, click-through rates, margins. If your role touches campaign data, make percent change and percent-of-total automatic before the test.

Engineers at an adtech company face the same clock as everyone else. Their usual gap is verbal speed, so a week of synonyms and sentence completion is a better use of time than more number sequences.

Question types to drill first

• Exact matchingChecking a plan against an invoice is the same skill. These items are quick points if you scan in order.Verbal questions with worked examples
• PercentagesBudget pacing and rates are percent math, the most common math type in adtech work.Math questions with worked examples
• Tables & chartsCampaign reports are tables. Reading the right cell fast saves time on the test.Math questions with worked examples

Roles at Mediaocean reported to include the CCAT

Tips for the Mediaocean CCAT

• If the invite does not name the test, ask the recruiter before you spend a week on CCAT prep.
• On exact-match items, compare character by character from left to right instead of reading for meaning.
• Numbers with similar digits, like 6 and 8 or 1 and 7, are the usual traps on matching items. Slow down on them.
• Practice percent-of-total with round numbers until 35% of 80 takes you three seconds.
• If the test turns out to be something other than the CCAT, keep the timed practice; the skills transfer.

Practice questions in the same formats

These are our own practice questions, written in the CCAT's formats. Mediaocean does not publish its test questions, and neither does Criteria. For a full timed run, take the free CCAT practice test.

How we estimate

Mediaocean does not publish a CCAT score, so the numbers on this page are our estimate. We start from Criteria's published job-family floors for the roles candidates report, then place them against Criteria's two norm groups, where the median raw score is 24. We adjust for how competitive the applicant pool is, and we use an employer's own published baseline whenever one exists.

Percentiles come from a normal model on Criteria's published median and standard deviations, shown as a range across both groups. See the CCAT percentile chart for the method and what a good CCAT score is for the published job-family floors.

Clever Cat Prep is not affiliated with Mediaocean or Criteria Corp. Mediaocean is a trademark of its owner.