Pros
Employee Engagement Challenges at work You can learn people management
Cons
Where should I start... The CEO of the company is a great guy with great vision. How they have grown in 2014-15 shows how much potential and thirst the CEO has to take this company to next level. After 2015 his focus was more on the sister company and he left this company to his family and friends and never even bothered to check back what exactly happening. I think that's where it all started, The biasedness, favoritism, and partiality of the senior management. Being a part of senior management and a leader (I should call her/him boss not leader), he/she doesn't respect her own team members, forget the care. He/she talks and treats his/her team members like slaves. I can assure you that the way we talk to our house-help is more respectful than the way this person talks to own team members. This person first tries to show care and that's just a strategy to extract your personal weaknesses so that can play with you at the necessary times. No matter where what went wrong, if you're his/her team member, the mistake is solely yours period! If you try to explain the situation, 'you did a mistake that's why you're defending yourself', if you get offended for something you didn't do 'why you have to get so offensive if you didn't do anything wrong?' nice logic huh!? Your performance reviews drastically change and nobody bothers to ask why? Your reviews are purely personal and no one questions why? This person is not a leader at all, not even a manager. This person is just a nightmare boss you never want to dream of. This person has a pet in the company. Only that pet gets all privileges from the management. You can name anything including promotions, hikes, importance, many chances to prove (yes, though they fire employees at their will, if you're their pet you get infinite number of chances to prove youself, because you are their pet), trust (if you're a female employee and gets groped on the road they don't believe you, but if this pet claims to be harrassed in a "Private commute" (which has nothing to do with company) they believe and take necessary actions) and what not? Even if the entire world is against this pet the management care and makes sure the pet gets all the privileges. That also includes firing or terminating the pets competition. Or else they'll just make the situations so worse that they leave on their own. How can anyone vouch for someone's performance who never worked with them and give them promotions and hikes though the entire panel is against it? Their bonus system, calibrations, appraisals everything is just crap. Trust me when I say this, they don't look for skillset, they look for how much brownnosing you can do and buttering you can give to them. If you think you're great at brownnosing you're in right place. Remember, they give you trauma if you're skillful and a threat to their pets existence in their company. You can't fight back except run away from there because the directors are CEO's family and friends and obviously he listens to them, not to the employees. I wonder why he never thought about the attrition rate in one particular person's departments. These are just a few instances because am tired to write. I can write a book on "The Trauma at Mediamint" if given a chance. They make their mid-level management to go through Leadership sessions and the actual people to learn those concepts is the senior management. I really hope the CEO realizes what is going wrong and make it all right before it's too late.