Crimson Interactive Reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(513 total reviews)
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Sharad Mittal

82% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Crimson Interactive has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 513 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Crimson Interactive employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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513 reviews
1.0
31 Jan 2017

Prisons would be better.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great place if you're on your first editing job. You learn a lot of useful techniques and the training will polish up your grammar.

Cons

If you're an experienced editor, there are better much places out there. They treat editors like school kids or worse, like vermin. The salaries are abysmally low. You're cooped up in a tiny bay and are expected to finish a lot of work in ridiculously little time. It's ALWAYS the editor's fault and never people who assign you work. The manager has a penchant for yelling at people. They are always UNDERSTAFFED because of the editors who leave or who are let go. Because of this, you never get any leaves. God save you if you do take an unplanned leave (You will be yelled at). They'd rather OVERWORK an editor than hire another hand. You WILL work for 12 hours a day. Again. great exposure if you're starting your career off. Side note: Everyone gets really sloshed at company outings. It's the only way to let off steam. Oh, and every editor is supposed to sign a year-long contract. Places that are a joy to work at won't need a contract to keep their employees on board.

1.0
16 Jun 2017

DO NOT join this company. Beware of fake positive reviews.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you want to learn office politics, here is the right place!

Cons

****First, beware of some fake reviews, when you see 16 positive ratings suddenly show up within one week ( 7 Jun, 2017 - 13 Jun, 2017 ), you know this company is manipulating and hiding something. ***** 1) No work and life balance. I known some editors work over 12 hours a day and even the weekends on very short notice. 2) No respect for your profession. You will be asked to do tasks which have nothing to do with your role you were hired for. 3) Very Low employee retention. Half of my team members left within a year. 4) Non-existent job training. Since the employee retention in this company is the lowest i've ever encountered, the handover process is a joke. You are handed a bunch of documents left by the previous employee and then you are on your own. 4) Pathetic holiday system. Only 10 days a year and if the holiday falls on a weekend then it is your bad luck because you will lose that day off and neither will you get compensated for it. 5) Ridiculous punch-in-and-punch-out system. You need to sign out everytime you leave the immediate office room. So filling up your water bottle, Getting tea/coffee/lunch from the office kitchen or even going to the washroom are considered as out of office activities. In spite of having mind-boggling feature of employees needing to check in/out within the office space itself, their system doesn't show you how much time you were "out" for. So basically you need a stopwatch every time you leave your desk and walk 5 meters to the office kitchen. 6) There are only 2 female washrooms in the first floor (around 100 employees on the floor) so you always have to spend some time waiting in line, which, as i mentioned above, is time counted as you are not working. 7) Finally, if you bring any of these issues up with HR, they are unsympathetic, condescending and very obviously they only listen to upper management.

1.0
14 Aug 2018
Recommend
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Pros

1> 5 Day working 2> On time Salary

Cons

1> NO WORK LIFE BALANCE (On an average you end up working for 12 hours where actual shift time is 9 hours - No Extra Pay) All Public holidays are working including 1st May, 15th August, 26th January etc. So everyone needs to adjust leaves and work on public holidays. It’s really difficult to approve Leaves from managers even if you have leaves balance 2> No Infrastructure (They Turn off AC after 10 pm where many people work for a night shift, washroom are very small so you need to wait for 10-15 minutes for your turn 3> No hygiene: You can see Rats and cockroaches roaming around your desk and pantry at night and management do not bother to fix this hygiene issue 4> senior associates in ULATUS-Project Management team are so pathetic. that they scroll at other employees as if you are slaves. Managers Scrolls at fresher like school teachers and insults them in front of a team 5> Performance appraisal is fully biased depends on your relationship with a manager, not about your commitment to work (Especially if your manager like to Smoke-then go with him and smoke together, you will get appraisal + Bonus, if you can give your boss accompany in drinks will be an added advantage) 6> Ulatus PM Team like to highlight your problems and mistakes than your commitment and good work 7> If you are not good with your managers, even after you are working well and performing better than others, your probation period can get extended and when they get another good resource they can terminate you without any intimation for no reason 8> Person who has never coordinated with Clients at all gets ‘Best Client oriented Project Manager’ Award at Yearly Award night, It’s just a matter of good relations and influence with Managers. This is just to explain the level of office politics 9> APM and above notice period is 2 Months and if you try to negotiate with management they just carelessly ignore your request and if you are in good terms with management you get a release as per your needs 10> Managers like to keep your resignation email pending and do not confirm it over email. No transparency about the process

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