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Aww Hell Naw - Content Writer Wordplay Content Employee Review

1.0
2 July 2016
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Pros

- In the beginning, it might seem nice that your workplace allows music to be played while you work and that you can troop in wearing what you wore to bed last night, but that changes—fast! - If you are lucky, you will meet amazing people while working there, but that is about it. If you have Lady Luck on your side, you will work with people who have the patience to teach you and guide you—if you are fresher—or will have colleagues you can respect. - Also, if you like listening to your voice echo (because of an empty space), the office would be your heaven.

Cons

The management here is awful. By that I mean, there is no management of funds, time, or resources. AT ALL. - You will get your work by lunch, if you are lucky, after which you will need to be faster than Flash to make sure you make submissions on time. - There are no added facilities. All you get here is drinking water (thankfully), work, and a place to pee. No tea or coffee and no kettle to even make water hot. - The salaries paid would make even peanuts look good. But then again, I've known people, who have gotten paid more than me, who couldn't even frame sentences properly. So, it comes down to luck, again. - APPRAISALS ARE A JOKE! These meetings are just gatherings of two or more managers and you. The managers tell you what you've done wrong, ignoring how much you've learned, the time you've spent everyday to make sure work was done, and what you've done well (like actually hitting insane targets when the need arose). During this same meeting, your personality might be brought up to, and how it doesn't command respect. Words like "sub-par" and "dispensable" are bound to crop up (as it has on three occasions that I know of). Once you've been brought down to the size of your salary (i.e. a peanut), they will offer you a low-ball amount. This is so that you would just be grateful to be offered so much, seeing that you can be replaced by someone from a talented pool of people. - The full-time post may as well be a contract post because no TDS is deducted, no insurance is offered, no HRA, nothing! - The profanity used when addressing employees, by managers, can make you question the integrity of the firm. (Note to company: NO WORKPLACE SHOULD BE OKAY WITH PROFANITY)

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5.0
25 Oct 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The startup experience!! The company has a snowballing startup spirit. It's not for everyone. Definately not for those who want to clock in and clock out without purpose. There is purpose, strong purpose. To take full advantage of this very unique and challenging startup platform, you have to be a hustler within looking to help bring impact and innovate the next biggest thing. Ever-changing work loads and challenges, I had to diversify my skills - different types of writing, editing, client management and planing. I remember writing with a professional tone for product descriptions and then with humour and the right hipster tone for other articles. Whenever I believed I couldn't do something, I would learn a whole new skill. The CEO Neil used to say that he likes to keep his employees ready for anything that comes their way. The key is to keep learning, never get stagnant. He saw the wordplay as one, all together we were one - if any task needed more hands on deck, we'd be right there getting it done. That "nothing can stop us!!" Feeling. To be honest I loved my time there, I learnt alot from wordplay, and especially from Neil's mentorship. Neil is a very inspirational and a passionate mentor. His style is very free-flowing and lucid, dynamic, he comes in and changes up the game and pushes the whole team forward. He knows things that others don't - a great leader to be recognized. And for any future employee I will tell you this - give him his space - he is spectacular, but you have to give him his room to not worry about what he says and how he comes off. A Steve Jobs type, ruthless entrepreneur. You gotta be a team player, and realize Wordplay needs it's captian at the helm of it's ship. I knew the talented crew that left him late 2015, mentioned in other reviews. Neil's the senior editor, Ganesh, was a very respectful and thoughful person and was in charge of allocation and execution of projections. Neil is very big on Task-ownership. Neil would say things like, if the project fails to meet its deadline, is it me or is it you?? Whose to fail? He would bestow real responsibility upon his managers. I liked his style, made us feel important, that we made the difference and we cannot fail!! We shall beat any obstacle!. Neil along with the crew that was working with him, amazing time and place to be apart off. Wordplay is still Wordplay because it's soul is it's CEO Neil, my mentor in life, the person who inspired me to do business in my life and brought out the best in me. I had to leave to the America because of my family moving and needed my support, otherwise I would still be at wordplay, growing managing and bringing the company's vision to life!

Cons

Read the pros section, I wrote some downsides in there too.

4
1.0
6 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good office space with suitable lighting and atmosphere

Cons

Abusive employer who has a bad temper, zero work-life balance

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