Horrible Company - Associate Consultant Mana Search Employee Review

1.0
8 Nov 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

good team of managers and fellow team members

Cons

- NO PAY - Tyrant CxOs -No benefits - Rude stakeholders - Exploitation of staff - Bad work ethic - Over work culture

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Mana Search Response
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We’re sorry that you felt this way upon leaving Mana this year. We have worked hard to build a culture based on trust, respect and hard work. We are proud that we recognise and support the achievement of our teams. We’re working in a disruptive and entrepreneurial industry with exceptionally high standards, and so we encourage all team members to work hard, be curious and think outside of the box. Our expectations are high as we want to deliver exceptional service to our external stakeholders and Fintech and Web3 companies deserve this. It is unfortunate but we must address the wild inaccuracies in your review: The CEO (founder) is related to the CPO, this is made transparent and we are proud that we have family members who are so committed to the same mission and vision. The COO is not related to to the CEO or CPO, Mana hires people for their ability, talent, passion and alignment, our COO has bundles of this and the loyalty and dedication the COO has for Mana should be commended positively instead of negatively. Mana pays its employees. Our stakeholders are professional and we support them. We treat each other with respect and kindness, supporting and guiding each other in order to make Mana the number one Fintech search firm in the industry. Across the business individuals are in the roles they deserve reflective of their experience, attitude, passion and hard work. We expect the best from our teams, the positions people hold at all levels are reflective of their experience and determination to be the best they can and to provide a seamless service to our clients and candidates. Across the business we are committed and not afraid to get stuck in. If we identify a team member is not aligned with the business, the culture or our mission and vision for Mana and is instead creating a negative culture, providing an unprofessional service to our external stakeholders, does not have the passion or interest in headhunting, search, Fintech and Web3, does not have the capability to meet internal and external expectations, and so forth then Mana Search is not the career choice for such team member. We’re sorry you feel so negatively about your experience but we at Mana are working tirelessly to create and nurture a culture we’re proud of. With our current team, we can see this is paying off! Thank you for your feedback, and we’ll be sure to take it into consideration so that we can work even harder to become the number one Fintech search firm in the industry. Sincerely, Mana Leadership Team

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1.0
21 Oct 2025
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Pros

Genuinely, nothing good to say here.

Cons

Two years on from leaving Mana Search, I still think about that place more than I’d like to. Not because it was good, but because of how much damage it did. At the time, I tried to tell myself the chaos was normal. The late pay, the lack of respect, the behaviour from leadership that crossed so many lines. It wasn’t normal. It was a place that ran on fear and ego instead of honesty and trust. What still gets to me is how easily unacceptable behaviour was ignored. Things happened there that simply shouldn’t happen in any workplace. Good people were humiliated, spoken to appallingly, and made to feel small for caring or working hard. Seeing that kind of behaviour tolerated changes the way you see people in charge. It’s also telling when you look at the reviews online. You can see from what’s been written that this wasn’t an isolated experience. The negative reviews speak volumes, while the overly generic positive ones feel like attempts to cover it all up. It’s a pattern – an organisation desperate to control its image rather than fix its problems. In the end, I didn’t walk away. I was fired for little to no reason after putting up with far too much, and even then my final pay was delayed for two months. It was a fitting reflection of how that place operated – careless, disrespectful, and completely devoid of accountability. I stayed longer than I should have because I thought sticking it out showed resilience. But I’ve learned that real strength is knowing when something is broken beyond repair. If there’s one thing that whole experience taught me, it’s that a company’s values aren’t shown in what they post online or put in a pitch deck. They’re shown in how they treat people when no one’s watching. From looking at their LinkedIn today, it seems like a slow, painful decline is already happening – the kind that eventually catches up with places built on the wrong foundations. It’s not hard to see. I hope, one day, accountability finds its way there. Until then, I’m just glad to have survived it, learned from it, and built a career somewhere that treats people like humans, not disposable parts.

2.0
3 Oct 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Best for experience and domain

Cons

Low pay no work life balance

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