I have tried to provide examples below that can give you an insight into what goes on in the company.
TL;DR - Please don't join. Not only is this company pathetic, they foster a toxic culture.
When I checked the reviews on Glassdoor, I was taken aback with some of the negative reviews. I still went ahead and joined the company as my interview experience was decent.
However, this was a bad decision and I do regret having Milestone on my resume.
- The culture is toxic. Read - not bad, but toxic. The company does not value its
employees and treats them like hired help and robots who will do as told.
- During my tenure, attrition was at more than 80%. Most people join and leave within a couple of months which impacts the client and their work. Milestone leadership members regularly lie to clients and make baseless promises.
- From a domain expertise level, none of the Milestone leadership members are
competent or industry forward. They literally Google articles online and copy
material on their slides.
- The company exaggerates and fabricates its accomplishments, even to clients.
- The founder of the company Benu A is not fit to be a leader, gets personal with her employees. Disagree/disobey and you will face her wrath. She makes claims in company meetings that people from Stanford and Harvard want to join her company which is not true. She even said during one company all hands that "our company does it before Google Thinks it." You can imagine her mental maturity level.
- Benu has lashed out at employees on multiple occasions and folks have left her
room humiliated, degraded and sobbing.
- The company does not believe in employee welfare, their compensation is well
below market rate, false promises on stocks, they do not allow leaves easily nor do
they allow work from home. Even pregnant women were not allowed flex hours or
support - only after a lot of begging and drama did one lady get some flex hours.
- The culture is pathetic - people are scared to talk openly, open communication is
not encouraged, employees ACTUALLY whisper and talk to each other, most are
scared to take breaks or be seen away from desk - almost like a concentration
camp.
- If you try and quit, they request you to not do so on the basis of false promises of a
compensation hike, promotion or some such. If you are adamant on quitting, there
have been instances of them threatening employees of not giving a letter of
reference or recommendations.
- When you quit, please know that members of the leadership team actually go
through your IMs, browser history, email and Skype messages to colleagues.
Some of the practices of the company are unethical and borderline illegal.
