Zindigo Reviews

3.3

67% would recommend to a friend

(21 total reviews)

Michael Bereck

61% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Zindigo has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 21 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Zindigo employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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21 reviews
1.0
15 Sept 2015

Zindi-GO!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Salary is decent for not doing anything

Cons

CEO is not open for ideas that would actually better his company. It is his way or NO WAY. This company still has not made a name for itself because the talent brought in are strictly forbidden to implement any idea. Also, you have to work Saturdays just because they say it is a "startup"...

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Zindigo Response
10y
A start-up is not for everyone and if someone does not fit it is really sad they would lower themselves to twist facts and write untrue things on a respected review site like Glassdoor.
1.0
30 Aug 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The only reason to work here is the pay. Michael Bereck (CEO) tends to start negotiations on the very high side, especially if he feels you have skills that will push his baby further along (yes man). But know going in that this is NOT a long term gig. Just use it if you are really strapped for cash. Use it like Michael will use you (until you don't agree with him anymore or question his ancient ideas-then you're history anyway). Office is in a nice location by a marina. There's a gourmet deli and a couple restaurants downstairs.

Cons

Let's be real folks. Zindigo is simply an affiliate based model. Recruit affiliates, pay them a commission to drive traffic and sales and hope it works out. Not revolutionary, not unique. You can call them "Ambassadors" as much as you want, but you're still simply basing your entire revenue model on having other people "maybe" send you traffic. This means that as soon as investors wise up to the fact that Zindigo cannot generate revenue on its own, well, you do the math...because Michael won't. Oh, but wait, you say! We enable stores on blogs, on Facebook even! Really? Yawn. Shopify has enabled tens of thousands of people to replicate their stores onto facebook with two clicks. Unlimited niches. Again, not unique. Ok, so your affiliate business model is from 2002. Fine. At least you're going to recruit affiliates that know how to drive traffic, right? Like SEO guys, media buy experts, and hard core affiliate/marketing "geeks"? WRONG! The CEO has stated (I'm paraphrasing), "I don't want geeks advertising Zindigo, I want the fashion bloggers, people that will look good on TV and interviews". Really. So you don't want to cater to the people who can actually drive you proactive traffic? You base your business model on affiliate traffic but you don't educate yourself (or listen to others) on who good affiliates are and what it takes to attract them? And affiliates can't embed pixels on confirmation pages so they can at least gauge their ad spend to commission ratio, or optimize their own media buys? Ok. Oh, there's more you say? You don't want to pay commissions by check, wire or PayPal? You only want to pay affiliates via a Zindigo Debit MasterCard? You won't just send affiliates cash? Ok...lets see if that works...you've been doing it this way since 2012 so I'm sure it'll take off soon. In reality, when you login to the affiliate backend you'll find very little in the way of ad creatives of any use. No iab standard banner sizes. No compelling copy. Nothing that doesn't look like it was made in 2002. You see, Michael's other "great idea" is that affiliates will want to spam their own social media. He preaches that "millions of people" will post Zindigo links on their Pinterest, FB personal and fan pages, upload their own email lists (wtf!?) to Zindigo so Zindigo can spam them for you (instead of just providing email creatives), post shout outs on their personal Instagram, etc, etc. This company is like some big insane pet project designed to keep people busy. The last "press coverage" was in 2012. Because this idea is so done. Over. Lame. I know, I know, Michael Bereck says "I invented ecommerce". Ok. So prove that you understand it. Sell something. Besides smoke to investors I mean. Yes, you are required to come into work every other Saturday for 3 hours (wtf?). Because "it's a startup". Since 2012. Like the Zindigo site says "we're in beta". Yep. In beta since 2012. Now onto the positive reviews of "employees". All fake. 100%. You can see it in the wording. Each praising management. Each blaming "disgruntled former employees". At least break up the pattern Michael. You've gotta mix it up when you write your own reviews.

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Zindigo Response
9y
People who read this should realize it was written by an unethical, mean spirited person intending to hurt the company, even goes as far as encouraging others to “use” the company if they are strapped for cash. Some employees were let go because of lack of productivity and inability to follow the company strategy. We have shipped over 10,000 orders so we are obviously doing something right.
1.0
3 Sept 2015

ZINDIGO

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Best salary for easiest job title.

Cons

The company is going no where. 4 years in the making and the company doesn't even make a quarter of its burn rate. Good luck to Zindigo. But the company is going NO WHERE.

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Zindigo Response
10y
All the negative reviews were written within a few weeks because a few people conspired. None of these comments are true so I can't address them. A start-up is not for everyone and if someone does not fit it is really sad they would lower themselves to twist facts and write untrue things on a respected review site like Glassdoor.
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