Mondo reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(813 total reviews)

Stephanie Wernick Barker

71% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Mondo has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 813 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Mondo employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human Resources & Staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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813 reviews
2.0
Mar 7, 2022

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Pros

If you like working very hard (60+hours per week, 6 days a week min), you can make a lot of money (as a salesman).

Cons

The culture is VERY (almost exclusively) sales-oriented (salesmen make 3x-5x more than recruiters) and entirely money-focused and highly metrics-driven. If you are a purpose-driven person who hopes to help job-seekers, this company is not for you. The client is the only important thing to Mondo. The espousal of "4 days work week" goals and "flex Fridays" are a pipedream, and not remotely representative of what Mondo realistically expects from its employees/who Mondo celebrates and promotes. Expect to work 50-60 hours a week, and be aware that you are also "highly encouraged" to work on Sundays in order to "set up your week" (aka work 6 days a week). You will also be pinged and emailed in the off-hours, and it will very rarely feel like you can step away from your phone/laptop without missing something important. Most of my days were 11-12 hour days when factoring in after-hours pings. They include a controversial "forfeiture clause" in their commission agreements (courts are split on whether this is ethical or if it creates an "unconscionable contract" (i.e. invalid)), which means that you will not be paid a cent of any earned commissions if you are no longer employed by Mondo on the date it is to be paid. Because commission is paid monthly on a one-month delay, you will absolutely be out at least 1 full month's commission upon leaving Mondo, provided you time it perfectly. To simplify, if you get paid commission on the last day of the month, but you quit on the second to last day, all of that money stays with Mondo, as well as the full month prior (due to the 1 month delay) - so you would not receive 2 full months of commission. There is an expectation of complete transparency from the employee side which is not reciprocated, and in fact, has been used against employees. I know multiple people on my team who were either fired or not given raises/promotions because they were open with management about issues they were having. Any meeting that is supposedly 1 on 1 with a manager can be assumed to be simultaneously transcribed to other managers within the company. Statistics are skewed and manipulated to show a far more favorable financial outlook for employees than is accurate. In a "year in review" presentation, the amount of money employees were stated to be making could clearly be seen to be manipulated with the intent of convincing newer employees that "financial freedom" was right around the corner. Recruiters are reprimanded for their candidates making life decisions that do not align with Mondo's best interests (aka Mondo's bottom line) during the hiring process. If you submit a candidate to a role who then backs out when/if they receive a better offer from another company, you (as the recruiter) are responsible for that. Not the client, who couldn't or wouldn't stay competitive in order to hire that candidate. Micromanagement is rampant. Not much more to say here. There is almost no diversity company-wide or in management. It's laughable how tone-deaf Mondo has been about diversity in general, including its social media posts, which have since been taken down.

1.0
Feb 24, 2022

very yikes

Recommend
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Pros

When I finally built up my bench of clients and consultants, I was making a good amount of money - took 2 years to get there though.

Cons

The CEO did an excellent job of building up a management infrastructure to protect her and only her. Everyone is a casualty in her mind. Beware. This is a bully driven and unprofessional environment that will traumatize you. If you are a person with integrity, free thinker, and NOT a sheep, run far from this place. It will take years to recover from this trauma that this company causes. If you have a mind of your own, ask questions, and think for yourself, you will soon realize you are trapped and have no voice. Management will sniff this out, bully you, put you on countless PiPs, and if you refuse to conform to their unsustainable practices, you will be fired. You will be told to lie to your clients, ruin people's job searches, and overall do unethical things. Even if you are a top performer and money maker for the company, they will find a way to fire you if you challenge (successfully) their small minded business model. There is also serious racial issues here. I will leave it at that.

4.0
Feb 6, 2022

Hectic but valuable

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good “boot camp” style work experience to prep you for the sales world.

Cons

Constant go go go mentality will wear down.

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