Beroe Inc. Reviews

Pros

For a self motivated fresher, with zeal and right attitude (read anger management), he will survive longer and at the same time learn things quicker. (It's because of some self motivated bright individuals the company seems to grow)

If you are someone, who cannot be easily influenced by negative emotions lingering in the air, you might actually feel neutral and continue working dispassionately and effectively.

Excellent and talented colleagues (in most situations) will demand you to keep abreast so as to get recognitions. Kudos to the recruitment team to have on board people with loads of talent (requisite attitude to survive here is something grossly ignored though - that is y company may be having high attrition rate)

If you are carefree (at the same time accountable), bold and even if not so sharp- witted (you 'll definitely rub shoulders with many street-smart guys who would definitely force you to be on your toes), you can have your own way of sailing smooth in the ruffled waters of Beroe.

May not be big on the 'Brand Quotient', but talent development wise, one of the best spring boards to catapult your career somewhere else big (many disagree to this - so don't get dreamy illusions because of this statement. As they say, beauty lies in the eyes of one who beholds) .

Cons

Unless u have a strong self motivation to support, there are a lot of demotivating factors for you to go astray (quitting, putting papers are everyday conversational words). Speaking of the feeling of getting lost, many a time (and many an employee) you might feel like left all alone at sea.External motivation is hard to come by.

Emotional bonding with the company ( many may put it - unnecessary) and its growth will not seep through you unless u are strongly self motivated (again!).

Certain things like over utilization of the employees can even be condoned because sacrifice and compromise of some are needed to fight with competitors (where the scenario is not so different either)... But having said that, as I have told in my previous points, this can be survived only with strong external motivation and a feeling of 'connection' with the company !

Some front line managers are good and helpful, some have to be differently dealt with ( from the perspective of an employee in the core revenue generating group) in order to maintain your cool. But almost all of these front line managers are loyalists (may be that is one of the few things that makes one feel there is still light at the end of the tunnel)

Advice to Senior Management

We are told, lot of changes are happening (I cannot completely disagree either). But the company seriously lacks a motivational figure!

One serious accusation being unrealistic deadlines, I don't think it will (or can) be lengthened . Blame it on competitor pressure.

Avoiding giving any hazy, 'un-actionable', cliched useless business parlance filled advice, my heart felt suggestion (advice is too heavy respecting their experience of building a start up) would be :

           Please do not take yourselves very seriously. Had there been a Steve Jobs or Narayanamurthy, a simple mail may motivate but here, we would need very unconventional ways. You do your work, I do my work - may not make a leader out of the people in top management.

         Spot people doing things right (1 min manager - Spencer Johnson - not my own) DIFFERENTLY; we are all in the battle field, but at times, trying coming and helping the infantry battling upfront (you might have done this actively during the early formative years but can again just come now for support )

Pros

you will be appreciated and compensated for your good work quite early in your career. good exposure to the corporate working.

Cons

its a kind of self growing process. You have to scale up on a daily basis to remain in the competition.

Advice to Senior Management

please get to know the research process before advising on the report and its quality. something that workd 4 years back might not be applicable today.

Pros

good opportunities to have a rapid career growth with decent compensations.
work atmosphere is light and you will not feel the pressure to report on everyday basis.

Cons

lesser integration between the teams leading to overwork on technical stuffs. lesser lead times on projects will get you exhausted at times.

Advice to Senior Management

bring in more transparency in reviewing the work and decisions helping the research analysts to know their role in Beroe.

Pros

Beroe has a chilled out work atmosphere with a good learning environment. It gives you enough opportunities to prove yourself and have a exponential growth.

Cons

there will be a tradeoff between career growth and clockin-clockout attitute. Sometimes the deadlines and time demand are tight which can leave you frustrated.

Advice to Senior Management

There is a need to add more experienced senior management guiding the research in addition to the existing scalp-up. Also, the feedback system needs to be improved.

Pros

Beroe has all that a growing company has to offer - tremendous exposure to multitudes of industry, category and projects, learning & growth opportunities, decent compensation and lotsa fun activities - games, TV, participation in competitions etc

Cons

work can be challenging and can stretch you at times. Projects can be handled in a better manner. middle management layer needs to be strengthened

Advice to Senior Management

though efforts are being made to strengthen the middle layer - a lot of work still needs to be done. Try and find some ways/process/tools to manage our projects better - maybe a project management tool will help

Pros

good work
good atmosphere
 training

Cons

work management is not ok

Advice to Senior Management

restructure the management.

Pros

1) Beroe provides huge Growth Opportunities with people moving to the next level takes a minimal time after proving the capability.
2) Exposure to the industry and the business processes is immense.
3) "No Boss" Culture

Cons

1) Developing organization - small brand name gives a little leverage among the other established companies.
2) Opportunity demands time and lot of commitment

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership is in a development phase. To facilitate that, the top management should have more coordination with the Analysts. Please cascade down the vision and ideas to the research team for their better understanding.

Pros

The package is on par with IT companies for people from non-IIT and non-BITS colleges. For people from BITS and IIT's it's slightly more ~50k. No one ever gets fired because the company has a very high attrition rate and someone is leaving every other week.

Cons

The crowd is mostly local and those people are just not good enough. The work is awful. It's mostly googling and making prank calls to suppliers and asking for information by glib talking. Information is hard to come by and you have to keep googling and making calls until you come across data.
Analysis isn't a strong point of this company and the forecasting methods/cost models are very basic and inaccurate. Finally, lose your self-respect and conscience before joining this company.

Advice to Senior Management

Get better people and don't make the people work on such stingy budgets. Also ensure that the person who has been working there for 2 years isn't paid less than a fresh hire from IIT.

Pros

Decent Salary
Some people say the growth opportunities are great. ( I dint buy it though)
The name of the position sounds good.

Cons

LOTS!!
CALL CENTER JOB>
work sucks. all you have to do is call up people.Lie and more lie. Make them buy the moon, and act smart.
the management sucks. nobody cares about your state of affairs. a project is given and it HAS to be completed at any cost.
Deadlines can be converted to real *Dead*lines.
Forget your family and friends and live in the company.
unrealistic projects, and very unrealistic timelines. the job is erratic.
it is full fledged google search and nothing else.
you'd rather call yourself a Search Analyst instead of a Research Analyst.
you have to be good at politics and licking shoes to grow in here.
insensitive bunch of people.

Advice to Senior Management

Revamp the system
understand that employees are human beings and have emotions. we are NOT ROBOTS>
and work timings HAVE to be fixed.
please think ahead in terms of growth strategies.

Pros

Challenging work content
Chilled office environment
Good remuneration levels

Cons

Not so great middle management
Unrealistic expectations in terms of quality and timelines given the challenging work

Advice to Senior Management

1. Please teach professionalism to your middle management. Please. Would solve most of your attrition woes.
2. Please advise your managers to put themselves in analysts' shoes as much as you advise your employees to put themselves in your clients' shoes. Would prevent them from issuing sweeping statements without understanding anything about the practical difficulties while working on projects.
3. Please re-visit your recruitment policies. Hiring freshers from certain institutes for a better designation while absorbing lateral hires at the entry level is unheard of.
4. Please carry out an etiquette training course for your middle management and ancillary teams. Would help them learn how to respect employees.