Aditya Birla Minacs Reviews

Pros

Good compensation. Great benefits (dental, vision, health) opportunity to advance.2 weeks paid training. Opportunity to earn bonuses.Flexible hours

Cons

Upper management can be a little more help to lower management.

Pros

Good for those who wants to just exist and survive with low risks.

Cons

No growth path. Too much of chaos and nobody wants improvements!

Advice to Senior Management

Strategic and visionary leaders to direct the organisation with risk taking attitude. Organistions are build with people and not on people!

Pros

You get a paycheck.
They have chairs.
They have 4 walls most of the time.
The roof never collapsed.
You get cool prizes, on which you are taxed.

Cons

The pay is low for an extremely frustrating job, where every 3 months your shift will change. In order to move up you need to suck at your job, I bombed my sales, and was moved to the fraud department for a ,65 cent raise. This company is horribly run and the only way it becomes bearable is if you get a Team Leader who cares as little as you do.

Pros

Best group of agents to work with
Comfortable work environment
Alright benefits after 1 year
Business casual dress code for many programs

Cons

Incentive program out of whack
Low pay
Stone age systems glitching out regularly
Management unresponsive to employee concerns
Coated in dirt
Regular extended hours
Notoriously light pay cheques due to payroll errors
Clueless on-floor team leaders
Little to no opportunity for advancement

Pros

As a technical writer, AB Minacs gives me ample room to transition back and forth from project to project. I am overjoyed that I am never bored with any work and neither am I ever so overloaded that I cannot complete my work, even when there are rush jobs. My management listens well to my concerns about timing and priorities of the projects I am responsible for documenting. The work is varied in both complexity and type and exposes me to a wide variety of teams throughout our office complex.

My boss is one of my top three best bosses I've ever had in my 20+ year career in the technical communications industry. The technical managers with whom I interact on a regular basis for each project respond to my requests for information and help immediately. That's unheard of in my line of work. Each one of them considers me a valuable addition to their team and I treasure their feedback and criticism on my work because of how thorough and insightful it is.

Cons

The technology equipment and software is out-of-date, sometimes frighteningly so. Requests for new versions and upgrades frequently take many months and require multiple escalations before action is taken, if it is even approved. (Though this is common at most companies who staff technical writers.)

There are frequently times when I believe it would be best to say the word "no" to a customer and that word is never spoken. Minacs bends over backwards to serve their customers and it might be better if they resisted a little more to make the offerings stronger. That's purely my opinion, however. Serving the customer is paramount.

Advice to Senior Management

Tell the customer no every so often. Or at least maybe. Don't design complexity into a system simply because a customer wants an ad hoc report or doesn't understand the information you're returning to them from their own data. Use me more to help describe it to them. Don't let the engineers and developers write the technical documentation.

Pros

There are really some great people that work there. I got along with my team but we all knew how bad it was to be a part of the Minacs company. It was neat working in an office where they handled Honda, Hyundai, Subaru, and Mazda national accounts but that was it. You got to experience and learn how direct marketing is handled at a corporate level which is good for a learning experience, but I could have gotten more out of a news article about it.

Cons

Management, Management, Management. The Milwaukee office in the Federal Building is disasterous. The way management takes surveys about employees and suggestions, shows them to the entire office, and then nothing ever changes. Every review session I sat in everything was dismal. The pay, the leadership, the technology, finding staples was even difficult. What is worse, is they SHARED this information with all the employees and the next day was as if it never happened. >> I have never been with a company that manages it's office so poorly. There is room for advancement which gives each employee hope of a promotion but it is ALL poltics. You will know what I am talking about if you take a job here. The "Acosta's" of the world really ruin any good experience you thought you might have. No positive attitude can save you. No thinking outside the box will help. As you discuss professional solutions with management about overcoming objections you are more likely to get punished than to receive praise.

Advice to Senior Management

Personally, I would fire every team leader and even the head office manager & especially HR. These individuals are in such a closed circle that unless they open their eyes to different experiences with other companies, they will never improve as professional individuals. The office needs new leadership that employees can respect. If you search online what makes a horrible workplace you will find every process that managers here follow. They need new experiences and new management because you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Pros

Good work life balance
Friendly co-workers
Brand name of Aditya Birla Group

Cons

Broken processes, tools, systems and policies
Ineffective, callous and arrogant HR
Pathetic senior management (AGM to VP Level) - free riders and sycophants

Pros

Easy job that smart people can do well enough to get by, without much effort or thought if all you need is the pay check.

Cons

You are a disposable asset, and you are told to be thankful for a job as wonderful as it is.

Advice to Senior Management

Give people two days off in a row, don't outsource most functions of the job to other sites, as there leaves little room for growth.

Pros

balance between life and work, flexible schedule, basic benefits,

Cons

management is very unprofessional, no soft skills or ways to approach the problems, lacking self esteem, no communication

Pros

Group Value, Internal Process (Finance and Payroll), Nice Co workers, Flexi working hours, Your salary never get delayed, Once upon a time it was very good

Cons

Hire and Fire attitude. No respect to anyone irrespective of doing good or bad. Only collegues and immediate manager can give some good words for your issues but no one has any authority at middle level. NO transperancy in anything. HR is useless. Rogue attitude.

Advice to Senior Management

Mr Deepak Patel better quite and go. You are playing or experimenting your own theory with the life of 20K employees. Honest person doesnt meant for telling we are doing bad and I may through you out any day. Honest person should say I am trying these things to improve if that didn't work then I may leave my position. Company has theory saying people leave managers not the company but you know we are still getting invitation from people who left the company. they actually left the company not the manager.