Mindvalley Reviews

3.5

51% would recommend to a friend

(242 total reviews)
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Vishen Lakhiani

71% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Mindvalley has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 242 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Mindvalley employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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242 reviews
3.0
27 July 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- Lots of room to grow within the company & lead completely new projects from the ground up - High quality tech team, designers, writers, and customer support team - Great local coworkers to work with and learn from. - Opportunity to shape your team & interact with anyone in the company. - Pretty good pay for Kuala Lumpur

Cons

- Entrepreneurship is not encouraged in practice. Vishen is extremely controlling of employees lives outside of the company and takes credit for passion projects employees do in their spare time to push Mindvalley Foundation - Massive growth in recent years had led to lower quality people being hired. The developers are great but often overwhelmed and called on weekends, vacations, etc. - There is little substance behind many of the projects you see listed on mindvalley.com -- (not necessarily a con) - Marketers and management are inexperienced, throw others under the bus when things go wrong. - Many former employees are alienated and badmouthed by Vishen. Talk with any former employee for the full rundown.

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Mindvalley Response
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Thanks for your feedback! 1. Like any good company we prioritize employees who are dedicated to our projects and mission. While we do believe in entrepreneurship education, we don't encourage side projects that would be in compettion with the time invested at Mindvalley. If a candidate has a side project or plans to launch a business on the side, this should be disclosed during the interview to ensure that it will not be in conflict with his or her dedication to the company. 2. "Vishen is extremely controlling of employees lives outside of the company and takes credit for passion projects employees do in their spare time to push Mindvalley Foundation" – The CEO does not intervene with the personal lives of his employees. As illustrated in point #1 above, Mindvalley will only question a side project or business if it breaches the employee contract and abuses the Mindvalley brand. 3. "There is little substance behind many of the projects you see on Mindvalley.com". These specific projects are under development, hence why we included a tentative (future) deadline for them. We featured these projects on our homepage to showcase how we're moving towards our mission statement and keep other details secret for corporate and competitive reasons. 4. "Marketers and management are inexperienced..." – This is true in several cases and we learned this the hard way after experimenting with our recruitment process. The CEO stopped doing interviews for a short period and as a result we dropped the ball on hiring culture fits. We've now tightened our recruitment process and are proud to say that we now have an incredible team of rock-star performers :-) 5. "Thrown others under the bus when things go wrong" – This is a subjective matter and we're not sure of the incident highlighted. 6. "Many former employees are alienated and badmouthed by Vishen. Talk with any former employee for the full rundown." In cases where we've had to let an employee go, we work by the 'compassionate firing' policy and announce as resignation. However there is one exception – should the employee be fired for severe lack of intergity (such as theft, corruption or policy abuse), we choose the transparent road as we practice candor with our employees. Please note that Malaysia, where our HQ is based, practices an employee-friendly labor policy. No employee can be fired immmediately unless it's a matter of integrity. Firing on the basis of poor performance can take months as legal paperwork, suspension letters, review process are required by law. It’s important for us to keep an open communication with our team, especially where integrity issues (that can harm the dynamics of the team and ultimately, the company) are concerned. Mindvalley is very protective of its culture and people. With hundreds of candidates applying each year for our vacancies, there's bound to be a blind spot during recruitment. When this happens, the culture does not hesitate to take action. A cultural fit is important to ensure we are hiring the right person for the job, to avoid disengagement and loss of productivity.
1.0
20 Feb 2018

I just stay here for the money

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The payment is okay and at the moment I am too lazy to look for a different job. At least we do not kill anybody. Working for a tobaco company would feel even worse.

Cons

There is a danger of beeing brainwashed, if you stay here longer than a year or so. Mindvalley feels like a religious cult. Our main job is finding new customers who are in a difficult period of their lifes and sell them some expensive online courses that will not helf them at all.

5.0
1 Sept 2013

Great place to work, but it is not for everybody!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- You will meet some of the most amazing and smart people in the world - If you are a marketer, love marketing or just want to learn about marketing this will be better than Disneyland for you, we can say it is Harvard for marketing - Work/life balance can be achieved if you are strict with your hours and work, the opportunity is there, it is your choice if you make it or not. - The culture is pretty amazing, great balance of work, fun and learning - The space is simply beautiful! - When it comes to marketing you will not have too much freedom as the CEO controls in a very detailed way what happens in this area, so your creative train may be halted very quickly or it may take a while before you are allowed to try and experiment (not judging this as good or bad thing, marketing is the core of the business, plus it is what he loves, so I understand why he is so invested in it), in any other area you could have a lot of freedom to innovate and push your ideas forward (if they are good and you know how to present them) - If you are into personal development this is a freaking perfect place for you to work (and also if you are not). - Despite the fact that this is a 10 year old company there are so many things to do an improve, so there is a space for everyone.

Cons

- If you are not into marketing your chances of growing and learning are not THAT amazing (probably with the exception of tech) - Salary is horrible, specially for a company that earns in US dollars, that is growing so much and that has so many expats. I believe this is also why so many people decide to leave after 1 or 2 years... you learn you gotta learn and then you go ahead and try on your own or move to places where you can actually make money! - There is not a structured career path, you come in and have to figure out everything by yourself in a way, a couple of people might help you understand how things work in the company but do not expect an organised, straight forward structure and path, this can be good or bad, depends on you and you like or dislike. - Be prepared to endure endless hours of propaganda by the CEO and senior management about how MV is the best place in the world and how our products service are the best and how they will change the world and blah, blah, blah... Motivation and inspiration are important but here they take it to an unrealistic and tiresome level. - Methodologies and processes change a lot! and very often, they never stick to ANYTHING for more than a month, this is quite frustrating ( i know that management will not own to this and they will try to justify it somehow) but in a company of this size and with the amount of people you need more than 4 weeks to try a new process of doing ANYTHING.

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