MoneySmart Group Reviews

3.3

61% would recommend to a friend

(126 total reviews)
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Vinod Nair

76% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

MoneySmart Group has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 126 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MoneySmart Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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126 reviews
5.0
17 Jan 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Before joining MoneySmart, I was always thinking if there is a company without office politics, arrogant managers and non-stop overwork. I guess I have found the answer here. Amazing culture, amazing people, and an enjoyable workplace. What else to expect?

Cons

Too many snacks in office... getting fat

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MoneySmart Group Response
8y
Thank you for your kind words! MoneySmart will always pay attention to making MoneySmart with amazing culture, amazing people, and an enjoyable workplace for our people.
1.0
14 Sept 2020

You can only win with workplace politics

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Unlimited leave - Flexible working hours (compared to traditional company, not using the standard as a startup/multinational company) - Friendly colleagues in HK office

Cons

- Worst management I've ever seen in my career life, poor financial judgement, spent a ton on branding and fire irrelevant people (nearly half of the people in HK left because of this mistake) after realising they overspent, which sounds complete nonsense to me - "Action speaks louder than words" does not apply here, since you can achieve a lot just by being good at presenting yourself - Do not expect to learn a lot from MoneySmart because it is a self-claimed start-up, it is not - Spent most of the time on strategy planning, reports and presentations, which will most likely be left in the achieve folder soon as no one takes actions - DO NOT EXPECT TO ACHIEVE GREAT THINGS HERE

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MoneySmart Group Response
5y
Dear Former Colleague, Thank you for your feedback. You seem really angry from your comments. I personally have small group sessions with every staff member on the HK team every 6 weeks or so to gather feedback and concerns so we can improve. It’s unfortunate that you didn’t feel safe to raise your concerns to me directly during those sessions when most people have. Those sessions allow for a more intimate setting where I can address your concerns directly. I don’t expect everyone to agree with the decisions we make but we’re always transparent about the rationale for the decisions during our fortnightly all hands. During the all hands we encourage questions about anything and answer every question asked so far. 

As a company, we believe in taking calculated risks. As with any risk, they don’t always pay off, no company makes 100% correct decisions all the time. It’s ok to not agree with our decisions, but we make the best decision we can with the information we have at the time and in-line with the risk we're willing to take. When we encounter failure it’s important to share what we’ve learned and how we’ll take the lesson moving forward. It pains me to see that you’ve left MoneySmart with such feelings in your heart. If you have any further feedback or feelings you'd like to get off your chest, please drop me an email. I hope you move on to bigger and better things and that you’ll take the experience here positively and achieve great things. All the best. Best Regards, Vinod
2.0
3 Jun 2020

Disappointing

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Fun people to work with Flexibility (annual leaves & work from home when needed)

Cons

Bad cash flow management - thanks to branding department overspend Waste time on things that can’t generate revenues - meetings, forecast, reforecast, endless budgeting Management is bigger than entry and middle level combined - too many leads, heads but only one or two people work on executions

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MoneySmart Group Response
5y
Dear fellow ex-MS colleague, Thank you for your feedback, and for the time taken to submit a review. We are sorry to hear your concerns. We are operate with full transparency on Branding strategies and revenue-generating activities through our fortnightly townhalls, but are happy to elaborate further on this with any of our employees should they have any concerns. We feel that we have a well balanced organisational structure to meet the current requirements of the organisation, and a relatively flat structure as we would agree that top-heavy companies are not effective. Whilst our management layer is not the largest proportion of employees, we do encourage our employees to move into people lead responsibilities should they have an interest in doing so. Thank you once again for your feedback and we wish you all the best in your current role. Stay safe! -- Regards, Leon Chua Group Talent Acquisition Lead
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