Mind Candy Reviews

Pros

Fast paced, agile and creative company where you can have a real impact. Working with global brands to build products customers love

Cons

Streamlined resource can be challenging as a small team

Pros

- Hired very talented, great people - Great benefits and parties

Cons

- Didn't understand what made their products great - Too much middle management - Got tunnel vision trying to be the next billion dollar company

Pros

Supportive team and fun office

Cons

Not a bonus scheme

Pros

Great product(s), great people, fantastic office and atmosphere. A lot of room to grow and people to encourage grow. Overall I feel it was one of the best companies I worked for.

Cons

I don't really see any cons - it's like every other company - the are better times and worse times - good hires - bad hires - good decisions - bad decisions; MC was a roller-coaster across all of these.

Advice to Management

Don't let the brand (the real one) die.

Pros

Great work environment - Excellent tech - Staff Lunch most Fridays - Good location and social activites

Cons

The Good - When in their Battersea they were young and vibrant and about 30 staff who were all great to work with The Bad - Moved to the Tea building and staff increased to about 100 in no time. Then there was a mention of the subscription number being poor with a concerned look so something was not good. The Ugly - Staff being fired almost weekly - Really bad hires - A clique formed and if you weren't part of it you...

Advice to Management

Do your research next time and next time the bigger suits want to buy you out do it instead of wanting to be something so great that you turned out to be the exact opposite.

Pros

Loved working there, some of the most talented people I've ever worked with

Cons

The company has done through 3 or 4 rounds of redundancies so I imagine a very different working environment now

Advice to Management

Good luck

Pros

Great people, big aspirations. It used to be brilliant.

Cons

It's an empty shell of a company

Advice to Management

There's not much that can be done now! Maybe get rid of the top heavy senior management team?

Pros

Mind Candy has been an amazing place to work for the past year and has really motivated me not just at work but also in my day-to-day life. Coming from 2 companies that were fairly large, I always felt like a cog a in a huge machine, going through the same motions everyday with little in the way of exciting work or ability to get involved outside core responsibilities. Since joining Mind Candy, I have been stretched...

Cons

For me, there aren’t really any that I can think of. There have been some tough decisions made by senior management in recent times, but this isn’t a negative for me. I fully understand that this is a business after all and businesses need to make tough decisions sometimes. Any young SME or start up in the tech/entertainment sector is in an unpredictable environment and so needs to adapt and make changes when necessary....

Advice to Management

Continue to be open and approachable as you have been as this is great for people who want to contribute ideas, thoughts and concerns. Also, continue with the entrepreneurial spirit and enthusiasm, which really helps with motivation. Thanks for the opportunities so far!