Fox My Box Reviews

2.9

56% would recommend to a friend

(9 total reviews)

35% positive business outlook

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9 reviews
1.0
2 Mar 2024

Would rather stay unemployed forever than work here again

Anonymous employee
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Pros

1. The place has a swing and a garden 2. Actually pretty cool art stuff they deal in 3. Get to use amazing gaming headphones 4. The backend workers are very lively. 5. Learn a lot of skills for the lack of there being anyone else to do the job

Cons

1. Hostile work environment 2. Micromanaging, over controlling management 3. There are no performance reviews or promotions, and hardly anyone gets a hike but is expected to work more and take on more responsibilities (pennies for pay) 4. Will be forced to take on all other department's work due to poor personnel planning and delegation. 5. Have to bring own laptop, no company provided services, no HRA, no conveyance, no GPF, no EPF, no allowances, no insurance (nothing but the base pay) and a very rigid attendance structure. 6. You'll miss having a mental health at all. 7. You will be shouted at constantly.

1.0
14 Aug 2024
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Pros

1. Fast paced environment (not sure if it's a pro) 2. "startup culture" 3. occasional dogs in the office 4. finished products are pretty

Cons

1. the sheer amount of dehumanization, humiliation, and shouting one encounters is surreal, I have seen joint families with less trauma than employees (read: survivors) of this place. The possibility of crying at the workplace is extremely high. 2. the employee turnover ratio is higher than their inventory turnover ratio (there is barely a month's inventory) for very valid reasons of berated, overworked, and underpaid poor souls. leading to constant rearrangement of "departments" (if there are any, 2 people are not called 2 different departments susan) and the inevitable burden of multiple departments falling on one person. expectations of the workflow and speed of delivery shouldn't go down with even half or a quarter of the personnel, expecting employees to do 4x or 3x the work in the same amount of time. Often, employees are asked to work Sundays (no saturdays off) and work after they reach home (from an already long 9:00 am to usually 7:20 pm work day) if the job is not complete. 3. the resources provided are scarce and employees are expected to figure things out on their own after being thrust into jobs they have little to no knowledge of (because the management “felt” you’d be a good candidate for the task, based on what evidence???). there is a loop of changes and updation of plans and strategies that circle back to the plans and strategies one started with but now the credit falls in different hands 4. employees are expected to strictly abide by the deadlines and ever-changing "systems" (they're also expected to completely understand the systems; however mundane and counterproductive they may be; as and when they are set into place) but deadlines and systems will be changed daily at the whim of the managers. 5. you will find numerous errors and red flags in your onboarding documents like wrong name, wrong date, wrong profile, nda for not discussing salary with fellow employees (glaring red flag) . no reward (eg:recommendation letter) will be provided by the employer after incentivising people to stick around for the reward because the employer “felt they you do not need it and the experience letter should cut it (i’m just paraphrasing here)” 6. there is hardly any pay (pray heavens if they pay you more than 25K) and for whatever pennies the employees earn they're constantly asked to prove their worth and are verbally reminded of their replaceability in colorful words like "do the job I'm paying you for"or "figure it out, I don't pay you for this". there is constant anonymity around your fixed pay. you’ll be onboarded with a 3 month probation period on a lower pay than you’d agree upon and the employer will extend the probation indefinitely for no rhyme or reason. there is also a rigid attendance structure that will dock your pay 1/4 for the day. 7. fatigue is a constant companion at this place with compounding manipulation. employees experience a pretty good first week but over time breaks are cut in half, and everyone is expected to only talk about work related things even at lunch hour (hour haha, 20 min is not an hour) there is intentional miscommunication to foster sour relations among employees to not let there be any outside of work talk. employees are expected to withhold information from other team members while somehow maintaining transparency 8. employer is highly narcissistic, manipulative and overbearing. you’d be constantly pryed for personal information and snide, downright hurtful comments will be made towards you as a form of manipulation or as the employer calls is “negative motivation” (because apparently it is highly effective, really??). managers are not supposed to shout but all that flies out the window in this place as there is constant shouting, occasional breaking of things and a really hostile work environment (if employees were children, child protection services would have been called at the hostility) 9. if you want a good laugh you can look at the benefits provided in the pay or the lack thereof, there is no epf, no gpf, no insurance, no hra, (there isn't even an HR department), no performance bonus, no casual leaves, 5 medical leaves a year (those are the only paid leaves), no wfh costs and compensation, no travel and conveyance and generally no basic human regard.

1.0
18 Jul 2024

Choose yourself and avoid this place.

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Pros

1. High levels of responsibility over various verticals in the business, space to take complete ownership and accountability and create a direct impact on the company’s success. Be a part of the “Core Team” 2. The founder carefully maintains an informal and somewhat relaxed ambience. 3. You have complete freedom to explore the depth of your working limits. 4. Experience “Start Up Culture” 5. Opportunity to get “Mentored”

Cons

1. You will be managing multiple roles and all the work accompanying them. However, you will be expected to deliver immediate results that do not align with the actual feasibility of what one person can achieve (deliver 3x work in 1x time, regardless of the situation). Since you may have joined in embodying the core team, that title will be dangled in front of you while you are forced to take on more work than you physically can since this is a “performance-based” position. 2. Absolutely no concept of boundaries. Personal comments will be made behind your back, not by your team members but by upper management. You are expected to have only “productive conversation” even during lunch. Communication among team members is expected to remain strictly professional even during non-working hours. Extreme control will be very subtly exerted in a manner where you don’t have the option to say no. Manipulative behaviour will be exhibited that will make you feel icky and bad about yourself when the fault does not lie with you. 3. Not only is there no overtime clause in the joining contract, but upper management will definitely enable and expect you to stay back. Casual threats masked with a smile may mention their disinterest in how you get the work done as long as it is before the deadline, even outright stating that you “will have to” come to the office on Sunday if the deadline is not met. (Deadlines are your bible and will be set unrealistically despite your requests to reconsider. Deadlines will also change daily depending on Upper management’s whims and fancy.) 4. You will be reminded constantly that the company is bootstrapped and that money is precious, so every single day, YOU need to prove your worth. Comments like “This is not what I’m paying you to do”, “Why are you asking me? I am paying you to do this” and my personal favourite, “If you want to leave, you are free to, I find every person brings something new to the table so I have no problem letting you go”. 5. This was the biggest farce I have seen any working professional use to get what they want and to satisfy their own ego. You will be micromanaged, manipulated, and coerced into doing things you do not want to. Upper management will enforce their own ideologies and operating preferences onto you while mentioning how you need to “make it your own”. I and my teammate were constantly told how we were expected to become his “clones”. Upper management also mentioned how they prefer to hire women over men because men “do not take work seriously” (read: cannot be manipulated as easily into overtime and overwork) and “have attitudes” (read: stand up for themselves).

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