Mirchi Reviews

3.4

66% would recommend to a friend

(256 total reviews)
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Yatish Mehrishi

77% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Mirchi has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 256 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Mirchi employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Arts, entertainment and recreation industry (3.9 stars).

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256 reviews
1.0
2 Apr 2022

The biggest mistake of my career.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Work here if you want to destroy your career and mental health. People working at Radio Mirchi will tell you that 'everyone who leaves the organisation joins a better place', and it's true. Radio Mirchi is managed by a bunch of old hypocrites who pretend to create a 'fun and open brand', while being the most regressive, non-creative, dominating and useless individuals who are still at Mirchi because no other brand will touch them with a 15 feet stick.

Cons

I have always taken my learnings from every career change, but I'll regret joining here forever. If you are a creative or ambitious person in any way, you'll hurt yourself mentally and financially by joining here. If you replaced the top management with a bunch of fish, they would do a better job. The management will squeeze every ounce of mental and physical capacity you will ever have while pretending to be cool, open and friendly. Even when pretending to be who they are not, they will subconsciously display a juvenile sense of fake entitlement. They pat themselves on each other's backs to make the brand sound cool, while the brand is going to garbage every single day. They know that even people in cars don't listen to the brand anymore but they will shout at you every day to drown the noise of their collective failure. Most of the top and regional management has worked here for years because they are too talentless and self-righteous to be accepted anywhere else. Because they have zero creativity of their own, they will suck out every creative juice you ever have until you become a talentless nightmare, just like them. The RJs think of themselves to be glorified celebrities who nobody cares about or knows in reality. They pretend to be a voice to listen to, but nobody listens to them even if paid to do so. In my time there, I got more hate for the RJs from the public than for anyone else. I felt like I had to serve the RJs like a butler to make sure that they gave me the favour of working every day. Work here if you want to be unheard, overworked, squeezed and blamed for anything going wrong. Most people here exist by either trying to pass on their work to someone else, or by complaining so much that someone has to do their job for them. I respect brands that fail and work from their failures. Radio Mirchi is a brand that failed a long time ago and is proudly digging its own dirt every passing day.

1.0
5 Jun 2020

Mirchi, NEVER AGAIN!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

None that i can think of

Cons

Tall claims of being employee friendly, open organization etc, none of which is true. The CEO himself is such a manipulative person, who will write an email with the subject line " Keep your chin up - the worst is over" and then the letter will convey the worst message any employee would want to hear. Such a horrible thing to do, Mr. Prashant Pandey. Salary cuts informed 2 days before the salary hits your account, layoff's with a misleading email subject line. No benefits to employees whatsoever. This is how the best Media House in India; No.1 Radio Station in the country deals with its employees. Horrible office politics, favoritism and prejudice.

2.0
27 Jan 2022
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Pros

The office environment is great. There's always music playing, something is always happening and the people are very friendly and fun.

Cons

EVERYTHING ELSE IS AWFUL. The place is run by complete and total morons. No one knows anything but everyone wants to make their pointless opinions heard and implemented. If you're a conceptualiser here, you're basically the worst off. I don't know why they call it the "creative" department because they wouldn't know creativity if it did a head-stand in front of them wearing a clown-hat. There are close to no benefits - no LTA, a measly insurance coverage that doesn't even cover your parents, no internet/phone reimbursement - basically NOTHING. We were promised an MIS that I have never seen in the close-to 3 years of working there. The increments were AWFUL and the paycuts were never compensated for. There is no scope for growth, you could languish for ages with just zero addition to your portfolio. You're hired as a creative resource but you slowly realise that no one gives a crap about creativity. As long you close the deal, regardless of whether the ideas sold are something you hate from the bottom of your heart and done only because client said "screw your ideas, just execute mine", that's all that matters.

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