InMobi Employee Reviews about "middle management"

Pros

Great Food. Autonomy. Flexible Work Hours. Awesome Peers.

Cons

Slow middle management. Slowing turning to an enterprise company.

Pros

Good exposure to the advertising industry

Cons

Middle Management lacks vision and are very narrow minded

Pros

Top management is really good

Cons

lots of dirty polities at middle management

Pros

You will learn a-lot. founder are really nice.

Cons

Middle management is totally screwed up,HRs have no clue what they are doing.they feel like govt jobs

Pros

Perks: Compensation, food, flexible timing, opportunity to work with young talent. Intelligent, hardworking, passionate CEO. Great marketing and sales team(not so in recent times).

Cons

Insecure, incompetent middle management(same problem since 6 years but, ever-increasing). From more than a year leadership has gone for the toss. Since the day company started advertising about Miip, they are just about marketing, no innovation happened after that. Technology leadership is almost missing since SVP-Technology has left. Since the day lost almost all good architects and tech leaders and remaining people are just running behind filling empty seats. It's a dirty musical chair. Technology is at least 2-3years behind compared to competitors. Promotions here are as frequent as Central mall end of season sale, never-ending and no meaning. HR department is no different, once it was making some sense, from couple of years they are just concentrating on BP part of HRBP Product management is busy in maintaining the products as there is no scope for new. Marketing team- Only its work is apparent(Good fantasy writers though)

Pros

Flexible timing. Food. Work Life Balance.

Cons

1 . Very unethical company and especially the top management. Earlier they had promised that those who will stay in Inmobi from 2014 to 2016, you will get a car but they didn't give. The CEO gave some stupid reason and told the company will give the money in next 2 years divided equally in 8 installments. But there is a catch that if you leave in between, you wont get the money. So essentially they converted 3 years retention bonus to 5 years retention bonus. 2. No Transparency: Since last 2 years they are delaying the appraisals from January to April. We don't get any official communication or reason for delay whatsoever. 3. Good people are leaving since there is no clarity of work and people are not believing the company's idea any more. 4. Our beloved CEO has found a mantra to make the company profitable which is A-B, where A is revenue and B is running cost. Instead of increasing A, they are only focused on decreasing B, and in order to do so they are letting good people go. 5. Arrogant and undeserving middle management: At Inmobi, they is a great parity issue. You can find engineering managers with overall 7 years or less experience. Anyone can become EM, architect easily.

Pros

1) Great time flexibility at work 2) Excellent Founders 3) The founders truly respect employees and their definition of InMobi culture is highly respectable. 4) Great place to work on challenging and mind tickling problems/projects. 5) Bright minds

Cons

1) Leaders and VPs need more clarity. Some of the recent hires aren't much aware of what and how to contribute. 2) Needs to focus more on how to make the operation and deliverable process more lean. Heavy lifting and running amuck and delivering like a monster is needed at the start, but things need to get matured to compete with real goliaths in the market. That shift is yet to happen. 3) The word culture is high misusued in several places, especially in the middle management level.

Pros

Hardly anything good can be said about the work place. - Decent salaries - Free food - Nice looking office

Cons

This place is riddled with a plethora of problems. Most of them are seemingly unfixable. - Heavily politicized work place. - Upper management seems to have no clue what they've gotten themselves into. They seem unable to understand what the company's goal is in the short term and long term. Barring making money of course. - Middle management is most keen on saving their own jobs. Nothing good can be said about them. - Product management is unsatisfactory. More good product managers are leaving or have already left. Lots of layers (mostly useless) in product management. People prefer hacky solutions over clean, scaleable ones. - Architects and senior engineers are below par technically. They are good at using flowery language and articulating their bizarre ideas. - HR policies are arbitrary, if any. - Heavy disparities in salary. All one needs is to create a perception. If you're perceived to be useful, the company would give you twice your market worth (maybe more).

Pros

Initially was good place to work, learn and grow. Freedom in solving problems and scaling. Lots of good opportunity to grow. There were constraints but the team was good to work around them and deliver a good product.

Cons

Unfortunately lots of bad and incompetent hires were in middle management who were there only to pad their resume and make money. Lots of good people left leaving the company to start their own startups or join better workplaces. The middle-management is now full of political people who want to guard their turf and hire more subordinates but not get work done. Quite a toxic place to work.

Pros

1. Good ideas and initiatives 2. Flexible and employee friendly system 3. Global atmosphere with people from good academic and corporate backgrounds 4. Great food and gift goodies

Cons

1. Poor middle management resulting in attrition of good employees 2. Favoritism and politics resulting in more power in the hands of a few corrupt people 3. Although almost everyone in the company knows and acknowledges what needs to be improved but things never get done