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      3.5

      76% would recommend to a friend

      (148 total reviews)

      Tina Garg

      79% approve of CEO

      73% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity and inclusion

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Culture and values

      3.4

      Compensation and benefits

      3.3

      Senior management

      2.9

      Work/Life balance

      Pink Lemonade has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 148 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pink Lemonade employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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      148 reviews
      1.0
      31 May 2021

      Avoid this place like the plague. Do. Not. Work. Here.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      -Some of the people I worked with were amazing- talented, dedicated and hardworking.

      Cons

      - Insane work pressure, not humanly possible to keep up. -Your mental health will take a definite hit. Three years since I left, I still have PTSD. -There is no demarcation between your professional and personal life, it is as though they own all 24 hours of your day and expect you to be at their beck and call. -Shouting at employees, making them feel bad/cry is considered normal. When raised as a problem, you are then gaslit and manipulated into thinking "it wasn't so bad" or that it was just a "one off" of that "the CEO was just having a bad day." -This brings me to the CEO...I want to think she is good at heart deep, deep down...however she is a narcissist in the truest form of the word. She is manipulative and a master of gaslighting (mentioned previously) and extremely unprofessional to the core. She is incapable of being objective and seeing someone else's point of view (unless you are blindly praising her and PL in which case she will lap it up), she gets very personal about things. -She is incapable of taking on constructive feedback.

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      Pink Lemonade Response
      5y
      3 years is a long time. Wonder why you bring up all this without any reason. 1. Personal and professional lives are entirely different. There are times when one may spill into the other and the needs of people at PL are accommodated just like sometimes they may accommodate a work need. All managers are clear on this, as are our people. 2. You have used a lot of big terms in this review to spread malice about the CEO. We will not qualify any of these because there are many other reviews to qualify just the opposite of what you have said. Every work association works on mutual trust, professional work, and performance. Clearly this seems to be missing so little point in detailing further. Nevertheless there are two sides of the truth always :) 3. Any organization must look within and that’s what the leadership team constantly works towards. It’s one of the reasons why our processes are continuously fine-tuned to address growth related developments. This is carefully done after listening to our people. 4. Attrition at Pink Lemonade has also been performance driven where poor performers have been fairly given a performance improvement plan and support to perform. They mutually disengage when this does not work out so please do not try to indicate otherwise. I hope this clarifies. I can vouch for this and I am here for 4 years - that speaks something. Regards, Smita
      1.0
      27 Jul 2021

      Their lemonade is made from employee tears

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      You'll learn how to meet deadlines with no sleep and crippling anxiety. You'll also find your next job SIGNIFICANTLY better and feel grateful for it not being like Pink Lemonade because trust me, there's no place like Pink Lemonade.

      Cons

      I joined PL with high expectations and zero research. A friend recommended the place and I was looking for a change of pace. That was my biggest mistake and I wish I had a chance to do-over. I should have noticed the red flags from the very beginning. Many of us were gaslighted into thinking we deserved less money than what we asked for. If you join with the hopes of a chance to work on a variety of clients, don't get your hopes up. You'll have to forgo all creativity and regurgitate technical faff for clients who have no boundaries or respect for timelines - and management that is all too happy to oblige them. Now, I understand that not all work is meant to be creative, but creativity didn't rank high on the agency's priorities. What mattered was the number of creatives that were sent out and the number of hours you clock in on your timesheet (because that's the metric they used to bill clients). This "agency" put more time and effort into rethinking their work pipeline than they did for ensuring a better work environment. And it's a recurring thing - every other month, the CEO comes up with some cockamamie idea to "enhance" the workflow, forcing everyone to unlearn and learn the process again. Giving your staff vada pav and bhel puri once a week, while appreciated, is not all it takes to relieve the stress that comes with the workload. We get no medical coverage when it's standard practice in the industry. Our PF doesn't get credited until 3 months of joining, which I'm pretty sure is supposed to be paid since the first month. The CEO herself knows no boundaries, sometimes outright abusing her juniors publicly. The other senior staff is quick to take her side and excuse it as "stress" and reiterate how "kind and nice" she actually is. But that's just not done. It only took the slightest of slip-ups (didn't have to be work-related, could be a comment you made that she didn't like or disagreed with) for her to rain down holy hell upon you. And her cronies would just stand by and smirk (looking at you, Strategy Dept.) I could go on and on. My tenure at Pink Lemonade has been a horror show and the CEO was its director. If you're looking to find out what an agency *shouldn't* be like, join these guys for a firsthand experience. If that's not your kinda lemonade, read the reviews here. They're all true, and the positive ones you see here are either fake or forced (they literally asked us to post a positive review a few months into the job). And if you go through the reviews, you'll also see the HR department attack any negative comment someone makes. Pink Lemonade taught me a lot about how a senior should not treat their subordinates and how some colleagues can either lift you up or pull you down. The few good people that came into my life because of this place, I'm thankful for. The rest can go fill in their timesheets for all eternity.

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      Pink Lemonade Response
      4y
      Hey, As always we will answer this with facts and correctness. No tales here! So here are the facts: 1. No salary cuts yes. None till date. All salaries paid on time. Including incentives. Bonuses paid out in addition for everyone who went above and beyond. Salaries are determined basis experience, contribution and performance only. 2. Friday snacks - we do it to care for our people additionally. Not to feed them in lieu of stress or work. People get salaries and rewards for performance, and support for anything else, not food. :) 3. Work - if you're done on time and do the right work, you pack up for the day. Those who get it wrong are the ones who write this stuff here, naturally, because their day extends and they need to finish what they promised and mutually agreed to. Sometimes deadlines have to be pushed because the work is shoddy. You and your senior were both given fair feedback for wrong work on a call and never shouted at. 4. Did you ask the people who broke down on your Zoom session, why they did - were you told of the umpteen ways PL tried to support them? Were you told of the situations they were dealing with other than work and how much the company supported? We cannot divulge more here unfortunately or we would have. 5. Reviews on GD - yes all people who would love to write on the good things PL does can share freely what they want to. They are not tailored or fake. There are many who tell us "I love PL and this is the place I want to be forever". Many love it! Including the bond they share with the CEO. Ask the ones who enjoy working with her to tell you what they learnt and why so :) 6. Work harder or longer due to COVID-- please indicate where this was said to any person. The last mail from the CEO invited everyone to wrap their day earlier than normal. We advise you not to make up stories. 7. Work in the pandemic - yes it's been great and PL is growing but not before we care for each and every person - looking into their needs ALL THE TIME! Please name ONE instance where someone was not given help or support when they needed it. But, if you're talking of skipping work and disappearing, submitting half baked stuff and shutting off before anyone can try and reach you, then everyone is answerable to their managers. Please don't ask us to support non-performance :) 8. Attrition - PL is a smart and fast paced environment - if you sham or shirk or think you're here to simply pass a day, please don't apply. You will eventually leave and write all these kind of things when asked to perform better. In fact we have noticed the trend clearly -- if you tried getting away with malpractice and we didn't go along with you, those are the ones who resort to writing stuff here anonymously. Maybe it's also wise to check why many high performers are still with us and how they are cared for :) and the fantastic work they're doing. What makes them get the respect and career growth they deserve? Please ask. 9. Medical insurance - please check your facts. All employees are provided with many benefits, including many types of leaves (42) and insurance. Again we request you not to make up stuff. 10. No one makes up processes as you've cited above. Process improvement is needed for every growing organization. We use world class work flow tools. Please appreciate the good. 11. Please check the facts on PF. In your probation period your PF is NOT cut and thanks to that you take home a NEAR FULL salary. Can it get any better? Post your confirmation, your PF is deposited EVERY MONTH. Please come check the records and let's talk facts. We wish you all the very best. Do well. Cheers!
      1.0
      11 Apr 2017

      The Pink Lemonade isn't fresh here.

      Client service executive
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - The few friends I made here and who are still in touch. - CEO - She is deluded but I wish she realizes who the thorns are in her garden of roses.

      Cons

      Where do I begin, - Senior team leads are all gossip mongers - Unfair partiality is evident within each team structure. - Personal life of an employee is hacked into and interrogated as if we are criminals. - Sly intentions of almost every employee are evident. - New employees are not welcome and ostracized. - More women in office don't equate women empowerment. - Expected to dress up in Client service profile to sell yourself and not the company. Being well dressed and presentable is different from being forced to wear western formals and heavy makeup. Indian formals like salwar and basic grooming should be enough. - good employees leave as they are left unrecognized. - The CEO only relies on old friendships and has the wool pulled over her eyes by those she is closest to. Sad indeed. - CEO is also slightly unstable and yells and berates for the smallest of things. Will then apologize as if that fixes everything magically. - A ridiculous number of updates and constant clarification and no employee, at least newbies are allowed to contribute their opinions. - Infrastructure filled with rats and insects. Easy to get hired here, they are always desperate to hire. Ridiculous work timings. - I could go on.

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      Pink Lemonade Response
      6y
      Hi There, This review is a deeply malicious representation of the organization with the intent to harm both people working here and the organization. It saddens me that you wrote this right after leaving my room, after having what seemed like a genuine chat with me (and we had quite a few during your tenure, where I heard you out and coached you on various areas you felt fairly insecure about). I write this today as I owe to it my people to say that Pink Lemonade is one of the safest organizations that truly works to give its people a caring work environment while supporting professional work ethics and a high-performance, high-learning culture. And no, I don't write this in defense of your vicious accusations but as a testimony of what's true and out there for everyone to assess when they see the bonhomie, happy times, testimonies of work and professional associations, etc. across our social media pages. Pictures taken and shared without bias by people on their own pages, don't lie either :) A close-knit leadership team is key to a successful organization and I take great pride in mine too. The fact that they represent themself with dignity in thought and outward expression when they represent the company is seen in the work results too. I salute them for that. Further, structured processes, work tracking, and leadership guidance on tasks is what we will always stand for because when brands trust us with their critical asks, my team and I owe them the best of our capabilities. I wish you good luck ahead. Regards Tina CEO, Pink Lemonade
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