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private:mirriad
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=823840
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Jan 18th, 2021 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Mirriad
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Head of Recruitment
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London, England
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Visionary tech
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broad roles with multiple scopes and a chance to make a real impact on a business that is going places
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It is a growing company so sometimes we are paving the road as we walk on it, but this is one of the things that make it challenging and exciting
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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APPROVE
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0.0
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5.0
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4.0
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5.0
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4.0
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4.0
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5.0
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823840
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Open
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Keep sharing the vision with us so we can understand what part we play in Mirriad's success. Really embrace the changes that this last year has brought to us and turn them into something useful - we can grow as a result
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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6.0
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mirriad
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Consumer Services
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Media
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private:mirriad
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=823840
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Apr 8th, 2020 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Mirriad
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Department
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Mumbai
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Not good co. To work
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Politics and TL n Managers think they're boss of this co.
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No benefit, old technology no increment. They will ask you to work 24 / 7 u should be available at any time.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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NO_OPINION
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0.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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2.0
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1.0
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823840
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Open
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Be like a human , don't be arrogant or yelling
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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1.0
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mirriad
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Consumer Services
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Media
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private:mirriad
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=823840
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Sep 28th, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Mirriad
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Software Engineer
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London, England
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Good place to work but lot to improve
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Work life balance
Friendly and relaxed environment
Very skilled researchers working on the core product
Good agile practices
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No solid business plan
Outdated and inefficient engineering practices
Nobody cares about career growth
No recreational space and no benefits as management doesn't care about employee well being
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1.0
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3.0
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5.0
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3.0
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3.0
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1.0
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2.0
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823840
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Open
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mirriad
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Consumer Services
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Media
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private:mirriad
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=823840
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Sep 4th, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Mirriad
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London, England
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A wonder it's still going
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Perceived to be an innovative player so looks good when showing mates.
Some really good people there, who are slowly being reduced to shadows.
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Under the hood, it is an entirely manual creative process, with a completely fictitious message that it utilises AI. The only technology is based on 10-year-old tech, Moka, which you can buy anywhere. Everything else is a large group of cheap labour in India doing all the work manually, from analysing the content (they don't use the AI stuff because they don't want to and because it doesn't work properly) and they don't have that much volume anyway, through to the actual delivery which is done using Adobe tools and again lots of hard graft by a team in India. Their message to investors and the market at large is just fiction. All the 'success' the new management has had to date was just things coming in from before their time. Tencent was long in the making due to needing custom development and came through despite new management, not because of it. All the new initiatives have resulted in zero results and the consultants they've brought in have generated zero results. Also great to see everyone getting a 3% pay increase, except for the senior management like the CFO patting himself on the back with a 15% increase for not quite having spent all the cash in the bank while not making any money. I could keep going but glad I've moved on from this disaster story now.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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1.0
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2.0
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3.0
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1.0
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1.0
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2.0
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1.0
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823840
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Open
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Lots, but they won't listen so why bother?
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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4.0
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mirriad
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Consumer Services
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Media
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private:mirriad
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=823840
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Aug 24th, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Mirriad
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Software Engineer
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London, England
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Good place to work
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Work life balance
Awesome product
Hard working people
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Nothing in particular so far
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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APPROVE
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1.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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4.0
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3.0
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3.0
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823840
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Open
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Great going.
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0.0
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[{"countHelpful": 0, "languageId": "eng", "userJobTitle": "Manager", "__typename": "EmployerResponse", "originalLanguageId": null, "id": 2326238, "responseDateTime": "2019-09-16T06:45:17.403", "translationMethod": null, "response": "Pleased to hear you are enjoying being part of our story - keep up the great work. \n\nI know the hardest thing for me is not being tempted by the constant stream of multi-national treats in the kitchen from everyone's travels!", "responseOriginal": null, "countNotHelpful": 0}]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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4.0
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mirriad
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Consumer Services
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Media
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private:mirriad
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=823840
|
Jun 10th, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Mirriad
|
Manager
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United States
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USA
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Great people great place to work
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No politics, great pay, great benefits, great people
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Still going through star-up pains even thou in business for some time
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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NEUTRAL
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1.0
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APPROVE
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0.0
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5.0
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5.0
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4.0
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4.0
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5.0
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4.0
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823840
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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2.0
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mirriad
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Consumer Services
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Media
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private:mirriad
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=823840
|
May 8th, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Mirriad
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London, England
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Company is going the right way - Friendly staff and environment
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I have been working in Mirriad for less than a year and what stands out from the start is the team spirit within the company. Everyone is really helpful to assist you even the Senior Management team. Office is really nice with a big kitchen/dining space where people socialize.
I am constantly learning new things and being challenged
The company has an amazing product and it is on the right track to grow
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As per many start-up companies it can get stressful during times
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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NEUTRAL
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1.0
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APPROVE
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4.0
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4.0
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3.0
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3.0
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4.0
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3.0
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4.0
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823840
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Open
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Keep making everyone on the company involved and informed on the decisions and the strategy. Keep rewarding people for their efforts
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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1.0
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mirriad
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Consumer Services
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Media
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private:mirriad
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=823840
|
Apr 16th, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Mirriad
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London, England
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Research Engineer
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I worked in the R&D team for more than 4 years and 1/2. I am surprised to have lasted this long whereas the turnover rate was alarming higher in other departments/team. May my team and my line manager be thanked for treating me well.
Now brace yourself if you're not in the R&D team. There is a big difference of treatment in other departments where **many** employees were a lot less happy.
I'll only speak for my case:
- Relatively good work life balance. -- However that was clearly not the case for the first year.
- Relatively good freedom in leading the research
- Friendly colleagues
|
- The culture is clearly more sales-oriented than engineer-oriented, which means less consideration for the doers in general.
- Lack of *deep* and *serious* collaboration between departments.
- Too much hierarchy and red-tape for a small company.
- Lack of attention details and very often superficial work was delivered. -- the R&D team has learnt its lessons at least, not in some departments. --
- Resistance to changes and the technical debt that has been piling for 10 years. -- In the R&D team it has improved by instilling a bit more discipline here and there where it is really needed but at what cost in time and energy to change mentalities! Hopefully the lessons are now learnt... Cannot speak for other departments --
- Lack of honesty in the marketing/front-facing. It would be good to stop pretending being a startup for example. And if that was only the thing to mention...
- The company pretends listening to employees... Too many politics and tactics resorted by other line managers to keep a good profile w.r.t. their N+1.
- No career evolution... This company is also excelling at killing the staff morale. Eventually most of us stopped caring and quit like I did.
- Minuscule bonuses and also your salary will become eventually quite below the market value after two years in the company.
- Inadequate hardware/equipment for deep learning research. Now the company finally invested in good hardware when I was leaving. But what a waste of time! Meanwhile there was clearly a double standard in enabling the employees to exercise their expertise in acceptable conditions. Let's not even talk about the embed artists who are doing the hard work for the embedding/post-production work. On the other hand for a very long time, this company has clearly preferred paying expensive trips and hotels for the sales team and/or some senior managers in the hope of getting more contracts... After more than 4 years in the company, the company has yet to become cash-flow positive. As of April 2019, it's clearly not the case. Again an enormous waste.
- Inadequate sales/business strategy. Instead of focusing on some key markets and developing deeper commercial relationship with some key clients before expanding, the company was trying to be everywhere and could not focus on some directions. We changed business directions everyday pretty much! As a consequence, the marketplace platform that was being built had no consistency, and had been consuming lots of money. Common sense is not that common, it seems...
- Stubbornness. One example, some line managers/team leads were incapable of admitting their mistakes in technical choices. That lead to a toxic and divisive work environment in some departments. Many people quit and will quit.
Obviously it is not black or white. The new management has realized some of the business mistakes but I still don't like the management style -- some bad habits die hard...
The cons outweigh the pros by far currently as of April 2019.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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NO_OPINION
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1.0
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2.0
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4.0
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2.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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823840
|
Open
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To **some** senior managers: I expect you to lead better and by example. Learn to hire the competent people.
Show more humanity (saying "the business has no emotions" is not gonna cut it).
Show more honesty, more transparency.
To some of you, I have found your condescending attitude very damaging to the company.
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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4.0
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|
Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
|
Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
|
Mirriad
|
Consumer Services
|
Media
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private:mirriad
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=823840
|
Apr 2nd, 2019 12:00AM
|
Open
|
Open
|
Mirriad
|
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United Kingdom
|
GBR
|
Really Good
|
|
The people are amazing and it can be loads of fun. The technology is impressive and inspiring.
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The office itself could be a more fun and inviting environment.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
|
1.0
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POSITIVE
|
1.0
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APPROVE
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0.0
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4.0
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3.0
|
3.0
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4.0
|
4.0
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5.0
|
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823840
|
Open
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Bring teams together through small and regular social focused events.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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0.0
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mirriad
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Consumer Services
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Media
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private:mirriad
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=823840
|
Apr 2nd, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
|
Open
|
Mirriad
|
|
United Kingdom
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GBR
|
Company seems to be going places
|
|
Great new senior management team are really shaking the business up. They're making a lot of changes for the better.
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The changes have led some people to exit the business which has been a shock in some places.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
|
NEUTRAL
|
1.0
|
APPROVE
|
1.0
|
4.0
|
5.0
|
4.0
|
4.0
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4.0
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4.0
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823840
|
Open
|
Keep talking to the staff and getting the message out that there are really big changes going on
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0.0
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[]
|
REGULAR
|
No
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Yes
|
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4.0
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|
|
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
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Mar 22nd, 2021 01:50PM
|
Mirriad
|
Consumer Services
|
Media
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