Bad company to work- total lack of leadership in the current management - Managing Consultant Mana Search Employee Review

1.0
19 June 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Good for graduates without work experience who struggle to get their first role.

Cons

Mana is practically a family run business, as the owner and his family members and best friends are running the company. Glass ceiling, promotion is not a matter of performance or revenue generated, but solely depends on politics and whether the CEO’s family and friends like you. The company is run by part-timers who are unfit for senior leadership roles but are in their positions due to personal affiliations with the owner. Probably one of the few recruitment companies that do not offer commission or monetary rewards. They are promising “discretionary bonuses”, which are left to the owner’s discretion without putting performance incentives and bonuses, so no matter how many figures you are billing you are still getting nothing. The company operates with juniors as they cannot attract senior experienced people. So they found a cheap way to operate by hiring grads, avoiding senior recruiters who could potentially offer the rest of the employees insights of how the industry actually works.

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Mana Search Response
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We’re sorry that you felt this way upon leaving Mana this year. We have worked hard to build a culture based on trust, respect and hard work. We are proud that we recognise and support the achievement of our teams. We’re working in a disruptive and entrepreneurial industry and so we encourage all team members to work hard and think outside of the box. Diverse working patterns or depth of experience doesn’t bother us, we focus on the right attitude and a passion for Fintech. Everyone at Mana is family. We treat each other with respect and kindness, supporting and guiding each other in order to make Mana the number one Fintech search firm in the industry. Across the business individuals are in the roles they deserve reflective of their experience, attitude, passion and hard work. We expect the best from our teams, the positions people hold at all levels are reflective of their experience and determination to be the best they can and to provide a seamless service to our clients and candidates. Across the business we are committed and not afraid to get stuck in. We don’t believe that we provide ‘fat promises’ or a sales pitch. We’re a start up and are glad to be achieving what we set out to do in becoming the top Fintech search firm in the industry. We have a fantastic team onboard who are continuing to grow, develop and smash glass ceilings in the industry. We at Mana pride ourselves on being transparent and collaborative, focusing on career development and long term progression means we have a healthy culture not solely based on KPIs and unhealthy competition which is often the case when commission structures are in place. We work to lift each other up. As we are a start up, we’re still learning and remaining agile in our approach. We value our people and are developing progression pathways and a benefits package that both reflects this and is competitive. However, like all things, this takes time and we want to make it the best we can. We’re sorry you feel so negatively about your experience but we at Mana are working tirelessly to create and nurture a culture we’re proud of. With our current team, we can see this is paying off! Thank you for your feedback, and we’ll be sure to take it into consideration so that we can work even harder to become the number one Fintech search firm in the industry. Sincerely, Mana Leadership Team

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1.0
21 Oct 2025
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Pros

Genuinely, nothing good to say here.

Cons

Two years on from leaving Mana Search, I still think about that place more than I’d like to. Not because it was good, but because of how much damage it did. At the time, I tried to tell myself the chaos was normal. The late pay, the lack of respect, the behaviour from leadership that crossed so many lines. It wasn’t normal. It was a place that ran on fear and ego instead of honesty and trust. What still gets to me is how easily unacceptable behaviour was ignored. Things happened there that simply shouldn’t happen in any workplace. Good people were humiliated, spoken to appallingly, and made to feel small for caring or working hard. Seeing that kind of behaviour tolerated changes the way you see people in charge. It’s also telling when you look at the reviews online. You can see from what’s been written that this wasn’t an isolated experience. The negative reviews speak volumes, while the overly generic positive ones feel like attempts to cover it all up. It’s a pattern – an organisation desperate to control its image rather than fix its problems. In the end, I didn’t walk away. I was fired for little to no reason after putting up with far too much, and even then my final pay was delayed for two months. It was a fitting reflection of how that place operated – careless, disrespectful, and completely devoid of accountability. I stayed longer than I should have because I thought sticking it out showed resilience. But I’ve learned that real strength is knowing when something is broken beyond repair. If there’s one thing that whole experience taught me, it’s that a company’s values aren’t shown in what they post online or put in a pitch deck. They’re shown in how they treat people when no one’s watching. From looking at their LinkedIn today, it seems like a slow, painful decline is already happening – the kind that eventually catches up with places built on the wrong foundations. It’s not hard to see. I hope, one day, accountability finds its way there. Until then, I’m just glad to have survived it, learned from it, and built a career somewhere that treats people like humans, not disposable parts.

2.0
3 Oct 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Best for experience and domain

Cons

Low pay no work life balance

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