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Thank you for reviewing us. It’s unfortunate that you faced these challenges when you worked at Mindstorm.
We would want to disclose that we have updated our responses so that you are informed that we have adopted a fresh perspective to guide us based on feedback over the past several years. This response is updated as of March 2022.
Below are the changes we have incorporated at Mindstorm that you may or may not be aware of.
- 100% Remote Working: We believe the freedom to work from anywhere is an employee right & we work with our clients with that understanding.
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- No more working Weekends: We want all our teams to have a refreshed weekend & join us back on Monday with a fresh set of ideas. To enable this, we no longer take up clients who require us a to work on weekends. No projects, not even pitch work is taken over a weekend once you have logged out. Critical situations however are handled on client to client basis on a scale of urgency which are extremely rare. (Once or Twice in a year)
- Flexible but Responsible Working Hours: While our majority of our team works between 10 am to 7 pm, we maintain flexible works hours for team members as long as the work assigned is not hampered and meets the deadlines planned at the beginning of the week.
- Specialists Roles: We currently only hire experienced & seasoned digital & creative team members with minimum experience over 5 years for mid & senior roles. Executives have a minimum requirement of 3 years. As a remote working organization, we currently do not have the bandwidth to train interns or freshers. We do not encourage freshers to join us as they might lose out on required training required in the early stages of their career
- No Micro Management: No hierarchy structures & onboard training means less supervision is required. Every team member is considered as a responsible adult and is deemed to be able to manage themselves.
- Streamlined payout: Mindstorm releases salaries/fees on the 15th of the following month for the current month. For eg. Salaries/Fees for May are credited on June 15th. Do note Mindstorm hasn’t defaulted on payment till date and maintains cash reserves for employees for up to 3 upcoming months to safeguard the financial security of our employees.
- Zero Tolerance for Absconding employees: Mindstorm will continue to maintain zero tolerance for absconding employees. Absconding employees are those who resign or quit abruptly without serving an agreed notice period. This generally results in blocked salary, relieving letter, experience letter & non-validation of future BGC. Employees are expected to be mindful before considering such courses of action.
