Look up the article "Corporate Stockholm Syndrome" on Psychology Today, and you have Mondo in a nutshell. I seriously loved working here, but it’s because I believed the practices here were normal. You’re promised a lot when you first start that all sounds great, but it’s too good to be true. What’s happening here is not normal at all. Bullying, micromanagement, and gaslighting are the norm, and the worst part is that they love to preach about how they let people work autonomously and that they value the mental health of its employees. The only people they value are management and people who drink the Kool-Aid. If you want to work a job where your managers are adults and you’re treated like an adult, don’t come to Mondo.
A few more things:
- Like other reviews have mentioned, management showed its true colors during COVID-19. Instead of admitting that the org is financially struggling, they decided to put people on PIPs and fire them before the PIP even ended, blaming the firing on the person rather than on the fact that they needed to fire people because they were financially struggling. Entire offices were cut in half and the president and management would refer to it as "trimming the fat" and would identify those employees as "core" employees, as if some of the employees they put on PIP weren't top performers the year before.
- One of the managers in my office would encourage animosity between recruiting and sales that wasn't there. In one-on-ones, she'd ask the recruiters things like "Aren't you annoyed with the ADs right now? They're not bringing in reqs, aren't you mad about that?" when we genuinely weren't mad at them.
- This is just a one example of the complete lack of emotional intelligence in management, but the Monday after the weekend of the George Floyd protests, which got very serious in my city and everyone came in on Monday feeling awful, one of the managers said “we need deals more than we need to breathe." If you read the news, you'd understand why that's a problem.
- Nonstop Gchats from (on a good day) 7 AM-7 PM and pointless chain emails flooding your inbox that your manager will ask you to respond to so they look good to the president, even though the email is a generic inspirational video or a rant from the president where all the responses are just “LFG!!!!!”
- Passive aggression, or full-on aggression, when you request PTO or sick days. I’ve been asked on days when I’ve called in sick if I can work later in the day if I feel better. I also have gotten texts and calls from my manager when I turned off my notifications about work while I’ve been PTO, even after they said to enjoy my day off and completely log off. I’ve had to train myself to stop feeling guilty about asking for a day off and actually enjoying that day off, because Mondo trained me to feel guilty about taking any time off.
- Recruiters are encouraged to discriminate. This includes being encouraged to take out keywords like H1B and India in resume searches, and terms like RWB (red white & blue) and John Smith are regularly used to describe candidates. Marketing, do not respond saying this doesn't happen. Check the ATS and you will see the notes describing candidates this way.
- If you have a candidate who will not accept an offer same day, even if it’s a one-step interview and they know nothing about the position, you will be shamed by your manager, forced to talk the candidate into it, and, in some cases, pull the candidate from the interview process even if they want the night to think about things after a final interview. If you’re a Mondo candidate, expect to be treated like a child and have your recruiter nonstop blowing up your phone while they’re working with you. As someone who's been on that side, I apologize.