When I first started there, I was excited. I learned a lot and took on a ton of new challenges for myself. Met some great people, some who are event still my best friends. After my first year there though, is basically when it all went down hill. Management changed I think a total of 5 times at this point? Our team was all over the place and we were handling basically everything on our own.
Fast forward a little and we now had a manager in place who came from the technical recruiting side of things and thought that he could change the way our team was run. Everything was a numbers game now- forget quality. We just needed to get people in the seats and when they left after a week we wondered why?
Don't even get me started on the metrics and micromanagement. Ive never seen anything like it. The metrics became this stressful daily numbers game that no one could really keep up with and it caused more stress than overall happiness on the team every single day. And you wonder why we couldn't do our jobs or sell the job to anyone else. Maybe because we were all so miserable?
Micromanagement should never be a thing at any company. Its sad that the only way management could keep track of their employees and what they were doing every second of the day was by these crazy metrics that were watched by the hour. Its called trusting your team to do their job and goes back again to the fact that there was more of a concern around these numbers than the quality of work that we were doing. Ive now moved onto 2 other places since Mondo and what I can say is I have not been micromanaged since. Rather I am spoken to like a human and given a goal to reach and work towards that. There is open communication and it feels like I can breathe and enjoy my job and not want to cry coming to work. You guys should try it.
The manager actually made the team cry multiple times a week. He thought he was doing his job by having one on ones, etc, however he took that time to yell and verbally abuse his team until they no longer wanted to work for him. Good news is he got promoted because he deserved that for sure. No one should ever have to be in an environment where you are spoken too so poorly.
Couple of key takeaways from my time at Mondo and I recommend that no one ever takes a job there or more specifically with the Talent Acquisition team. And if you are on that team now, just get out while you're ahead. 1- you mean nothing, you are just a number there 2- they will promote you to keep you, but that also means nothing because they can take it away 3- management is horrible 4- if you decide to stay, rely on your team for support and use the people around you for help because in the end they are the ones that will have your back.
Most important- my team meant the world to me. I helped build and train and get everyone to where we were and when new management came in, that team and its spirit was crushed completely and never bounced back. If the current manager is wondering why the ORIGINAL CA team no longer is there, its because of you. You took key players out and the rest followed because bottom line, you were never the leader and they never wanted to follow you or do anything that you wanted them to do.
