POPxo Reviews

- Company runs by favouritism and biasness like they are its lifelines. It’s in their blood. The CEO has 8-10 favourite people with whom she has great personal equations and sadly the same is carried to work, which makes this place highly unfair to be a part of. If you are someone with a fresh set of ideas, the chances are you would not be heard except in editorial department - Possibly the worst sales managers that you could work with. Bringing personal biasness to work and making it difficult to work for everyone who works with them - Unprofessional environment where for most part of the day people are shouting and celebrating trivial, almost nonsensical things - No work life balance. If you are finishing your nine hours and leaving on time, it is considered as half day and people stare at you for leaving on time despite voluntarily being available round the clock including weekends - Your seniors most probably at any given point of time will have no idea what you are upto and there is no leadership, no learning. Coming here is a career suicide if you are really ambitious professionally and want to grow - The HODs/teamleads here have no added experience that gives them that authority and there is hardly anything that you’d look up to in them to grow as an individual hence the attrition rate is extremely high - Designations and departments are a joke here. Overnight, without consulting you, your designation and department can be changed and you will be asked to be a ‘floater’ before the company realises your potential and decides where to place you with no preference of your own. They toss people like salad and play with their career - Refrain from spending any money of your own here thinking you will be reimbursed later, you won’t be - Despite being a women-led company, as the ‘biggest community of women in India’, there is a certain regressive, classist and elitist vibe in the company that might just make you doubt yourself and your capabilities. - My suggestion to anyone joining here - please do a thorough research of the department you are joining. The only department here worth joining is editorial who is led by a proper professional and who knows what she is doing. Editorial has great editors, writers and it will be fun to work with them. Avoid Commercial Team unless absolutely sure.

1. Lack of professionalism - The entire company runs like a girls hostel where you see groups in every nook and corner and there is zero professionalism. Loud people, gossiping, random parties are more common that work here 2. Biasness - You only have a value if you belong to the top few favourites that the CEO has otherwise nothing. The review system is very bad where you are reviewed by your line manager, which of course makes sense, then his/her line manager (who has little idea about your work) and then the founder (who doesn't even know the name of people so how is she capable of marking anyone?) 3. Poor HR policies - HR has no say here and decisions are taken at the whim of the CEO. You may have joined at a certain position but you never know what your position will be when you are leaving. Not just your title but your departments can be changed as well including reporting managers without taking you into confidence. They toss people around like anything without thinking the effect it will have on someone's CV and career as they join at a position with something in their mind. 4. Senior management has no experience - The people in the senior management are all under 30 and have no special experience than their juniors. They do not command any respect but demand it. They are extremely unapproachable and rude and if you have any queries that you want to resolve, you have to figure out on your own because the person who is actually supposed to provide a solution doesn't want to listen to you or makes nagging faces like a small child. 5. Politics - Not all but a lot of employees in the company come from a certain kind of background where they indulge in expensive lifestyle and holidays, which is very much okay but if you are not of the same social class or fashion class for that matter, you are out. If you are someone who believes in just working and keeping it professional, you will not last here as you need to bootlick your manager and other seniors to be a part of this company. How quickly your work gets done depends on how strong your friendships are with other people in the company. 6, Reimbursements - They do not pay reimbursements but are happy to spend 2000 rupees on a cake each week. Someone sneezes and there is a cake. I am not a party pooper but when you can indulge in extra things like these, employees' claims should be paid.