Mindcrest Reviews

2.8

42% would recommend to a friend

(163 total reviews)

Ganesh Natarajan

57% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Mindcrest has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 163 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Mindcrest employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Legal industry (3.8 stars).

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163 reviews
2.0
27 Aug 2021
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Pros

The only pro is that if you’re lucky enough your manager might be in a good mood and will be understanding. Else there isn’t really many pros.

Cons

- lack of work-life balance: with or without work from home Mindcrest doesn’t really provide an environment for work life balance. Managers tend to call you up if you aren’t available a few minutes after they ping you. -Zero compensation for overtime: you will expected to work and consistently meet quality requirements even on your worst days. You will not be compensated fairly at all for the amount of time you will spend working nor will you be adequately appreciated. They’ll just send out an email or two stating a few names who did well for the month. But then the names are limited to two names per team just for the sake of it. No employee support: this isn’t company to join if you have a family, health issues both physical and mental, and in general if you want to have a life. The insurance doesn’t really cover much though it boasts a lot. The process to claim it takes forever and you can’t really access proper insurance information as it’s not posted on the company’s website. If you fall sick and use all your medical and vacation leaves you’ll have to sacrifice your salary for each day you extend your leave to get better. This is especially difficult if you’re the sole earning member of your family. Plus you will have no leaves left for any future purposes. You can’t disclose your personal problems to them in hopes of understanding because as stated before they’ll be good and understanding managers but they might not have your best interest in heart. Even if you overcome your problems and decide to go all in for your work no matter how sincere they’ll still deny your appraisals. Lack of employment benefits: though it constantly boasts of being an international company with fairly good clients the amount of benefits they provide to an employee equivalent to factory workers (although some of them do get compensated better) incentives are limited. Both pre-pandemic and post-pandemic. They really just want their work done and are least bothered if you’re satisfied or happy with the work. Questioning them tends to put you on their bad side. They genuinely prefer people who ask little to no questions and want workers to work like robots (honestly, don’t be fooled by the nice managers who are asking about your health, they’re just doing their part, they aren’t remotely bothered.) they put up an understanding forefront but that’s it. Internal Job Posting, incentives, and salary hikes: virtually non-existent incentives and salary hikes unless your lucky or your manager favours you (yes a lot of companies do have favoritism but it’s the worst here) an entire team had to resign for them to actually increase everyone’s salary until then there was no such action. As previously mentioned if you have a life, family, or health issues just forget about the hikes in appraisals because you’re an inconvenience to them. Internal job posting is highly volatile and either favouritism or complete lack of common sense influence their choices.

1.0
28 Jun 2019

Poor work culture, micromanagement, extended working hours

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Salary on time (not sure if it's a pro because this is the least that an employer can do), first name policy, most people who work in non-managerial positions are really good.

Cons

WORK CULTURE - The company's attrition rates speak of its poor work culture. It is understandable that they emphasize on "client first", but the fact that they conveniently ignore most of their people's needs while serving clients isn't okay at all. When people issues are brought up, people's narratives are drowned by the management's emphasis on "business needs." There is a LOT of dissatisfaction among the people working there. People leave the company all the time. (Read other Glassdoor reviews) EXTENDED WORKING HOURS - This is a common cause of employee dissatisfaction. On certain projects, the work hours are too long for months, and there is no effective solution to this. Many people find it hard to balance work and personal life because getting even 8 hours of sleep becomes difficult at times. It can literally take a toll on a person's mental and physical health. UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS - The company may require you to work really long hours and do an exceptionally big amount of work under micromanaged circumstances. But they won't take these as reasons for shaky work quality. They are resistant to the argument that an exceptionally high amount of work for months at a stretch naturally results in lower quality. People are given robust feedback regardless. MICROMANAGEMENT - Employee independence is little, and it just keeps getting worse. The management doesn't trust the people and wants to micromanage everything. For instance, the amount of time that one must take to finish eating breakfast and lunch is decided by the management. Employees are in fact told to not eat or take a small break beyond the allowed times. (It is almost as if the management controls when people should feel hungry.) Employees may also be reprimanded for going to the cafeteria or out of the doors of the office outside the times permitted without informing the management. RESISTANT TO FEEDBACK - The management doesn't really listen to its people, rather only chooses what they want to listen to. If people raise ten grievances, zero or one is addressed, that too, after a long wait. The narratives of managers who don't want to micromanage and speak for the people/want to be 100% honest with their teams are often erased. Often, bare minimum respect for people is missing. For instance, when people suggest that the cafeteria shouldn't be running out of food during the breaks, they are given the defense that the company isn't here to feed people. They say that they cannot risk food wastage, as if it is normal to cause inconvenience to people working for them. (They can just donate the extra food and do some good work. There are a lot of takers in this country.) They love giving feedback but are resistant to receiving it.

1.0
12 Oct 2013

Horrifying

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Pros

I would say none !!!!! ok for people who have no exposure in life

Cons

Bunch of losers !!!!!! All of them , you have to report every hour wad u do, Eat in workstation even though it has a canteen , if you talk they scold like we are in kinder garden can u believe .Highly Unprofessional ppl . low salary . working hours are 12 hours including saturday if possible even sunday !!!!!!!!!!!

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