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08-Jun-2009
1.0 Details
Employee Morale 1.0
Compensation & Benefits 2.0
Work/Life Balance 4.0
Communication 1.0
Fairness & Respect 1.0
Career Opportunities 1.0
Senior Leadership 1.0
Recognition & Feedback 3.0
Disapproves of CEO
Blinkx Anonymous: (Past Employee - 2009)
Pros
Interesting product, always intriguing to potential clients. Fairly good benefits as well as good technology and hardware provided to employees.
Cons
Management is totally clueless. They are unresponsive unless they need something. There is a total lack of respect for employees, who are frequently verbally chewed out and insulted in the presence of everyone else. There is no sales strategy and very little support. Management is unwilling to accept feedback because it's apparent that any suggestions are viewed as a judgement on their performance. Instead of offering positive support or suggestion, management responds to questions and feedback with the "you're not doing your job properly" response. Unwilling to accept that products are priced in a totally unrealistic manner with respect to the rest of the industry.
Advice to Senior Management
Give people a chance to be successful. Respect your employees, as they're people. not drones to be controlled. Accept feedback and criticism from salespeople and use it to better the company instead of replying with insults clearly based on insecurity. Hire management with sales experience that also live in this continent...not South
I wrote the review. I was in fact an employee at Blinkx and have no motivation other than to truthfully relate my experience for the benefit of others. if you revisit glassdoor.com, you'll see numerous other reviews expressing similar sentiments. Frankly it's shocking that the management team they have is still in place. Suranga is the main problem, but everyone else on the executive board is equally incompetent/unqualified. If you can figure out some way for us to contact each other without my posting my name/contact info on this board, I'd be happy to discuss my experience with the company in further detail.
ReplyDeletesure. mail me at simon.merlini@googlemail.com
ReplyDeletewould be good to speak in private.