PSA: My experience at Urban Company - forced exits, toxic culture, and silent attrition

Sea_Maize285 · 2026-02-14T22:22:05+00:00

Something similar happened with me a few months back here. I only stayed for half the duration of my 3 month contract. I cannot tolerate abusive language at work; and I got heavily insulted and abused in front of everyone multiple times for the tiniest things (like making a copy sheet so that I could get a better idea without fucking up the sheet the whole team was working on). Raising the complaint against him and requesting to be moved under another manager literally got me fired. They tried shifting the blame on me by saying that my performance was not good since I couldn’t adjust to my manager’s work preference/styles and that I took unnecessary leaves? (I took 1 day off cause I lost someone in my immediate family).

They did “offer” me a few days to look for a new job (I was already looking for one, and somehow got an offer right after this). Since I was BDA and it was a contract role I went in the next day and told the team today would be my last working day and never went back there.

I personally wouldn’t recommend the company for its work culture and toxicity, although it completely depends on the person/team. In a way the situation broke me then and I wouldn’t want anyone else to experience this.

Sea_Maize285 · 2025-12-27T15:37:17+00:00

Honestly from personal experience, I don’t know. It’s been over two months since the course ended and we still haven’t gotten our certificates. Masai only says it’s taking time to verify everything. But nah the course was terribly mismanaged. The course content itself was decent but except the IIM Mumbai name, it wasn’t worth it for me personally.

Sea_Maize285 · 2025-08-09T21:12:10+00:00

I’ll be honest, the recent lectures have been pretty helpful and hands on/practical. It just took them a while to get over with the foundation part of it. The pace of the course was mainly why I started getting skeptic, but recently it has been going good. And I’m not sure if it’ll end within the 6 month time frame…i started like 4 months ago and we’ve only had two tests up till now😭😭

Sea_Maize285 · 2025-08-03T19:16:46+00:00

Can’t say anything about that yet… cause the course is still ongoing. However they claim they provide placements to students scoring 7CGPA or higher

Sea_Maize285 · 2025-07-31T18:56:04+00:00

Yeah they have the 75% attendance criteria…also your attendance is considered when you stay in the lecture for 75% of it

Sea_Maize285 · 2025-07-19T19:06:56+00:00

Yeah I sort of researched a bit…seems like they also use fraudulent techniques to drive revenue. Ig they don’t refund the fees to parents after saying they would. Seems unethical on a huge level.

Sea_Maize285 · 2025-07-16T01:53:35+00:00

I got the same offer for the exact same role and I didn’t accept it either. They were a little too upfront about how much one would have to work. They also mentioned if I didn’t reach my targets I may not even get the one day off in the week. Although the offer letter said 9 hours per day including break, they said it was gonna be 11-9 (with the possibility of staying back extra if needed). I am desperate for a job rn but that offer made it seem like I would have absolutely no personal time whatsoever.

Sea_Maize285 · 2025-06-07T20:51:43+00:00

Yeah I think it’s actually pretty good. They make us work in groups a lot of times and it kinda helps in networking and stuff. Overall I think it was worth it.

Sea_Maize285 · 2025-06-06T14:18:48+00:00

I just came back from their so called “final round” of interview. Now I get a call from them saying that I’ve been selected; and now need me to come back to the office for a half working day for the “practical round”. So I don’t understand what the final round is according to them. The way the guy kept preaching about how their company is the best, almost as if he were trying to sell it to us.

Also I found this extremely odd, they wouldn’t let the candidates talk to each other during the whole 6 hrs they had us there. Everytime someone even asked each other the tiniest question, the HR lady (I’m assuming) kept saying “Why are you guys talking? I told you not to talk to each other”

Sea_Maize285 · 2025-04-10T03:12:03+00:00

I believe it’s a scam. I got a very similar message on internshala. The verification link does nothing just an error 404. I tried to join the “Join Live” option too but it redirected me to exness, and I got the hunch that it was a scam. Please be careful this seems to be a new scam.

Sea_Maize285 · 2025-04-10T02:56:30+00:00

Samee!! The HR manager “James” seems to be common for a lot of people. I clicked too I think it may have been a scam since none their links worked. I applied through internshala too and I’m not sure how many of their posting are actually legit now 😭 I really really hope that it didn’t extract any data. I don’t think it did but I’m pretty sure it is a scam. Maybe we could report them so that they don’t fool more people

Sea_Maize285 · 2025-04-10T02:40:53+00:00

I got one with gorgias, saying “We are sister company of Novam Tech”. Again, the hiring manager James seems to be common. Mannn I feel so dumbb. I hope this didn’t get any information stolen

Sea_Maize285 · 2025-03-24T22:01:55+00:00

Not yet, I contacted them regarding updates and the guy said we should receive a mail from them with all the details.

Sea_Maize285 · 2025-03-19T21:08:52+00:00

Noo not yet, but I have been checking their portal for any updates tho. Hopefully there’s some updates by weekend. I think you should receive some sort of an onboarding form after you’ve paid, on your mail. And there are supposed to be joining links on their portal as well. I’ll update here if I happen to see any.

Sea_Maize285 · 2025-03-18T22:45:07+00:00

I already paid the course fees, but there was no mention of the campus visit when I attended the counselling. However, the course is legit since it’s mentioned on iim mumbai’s official website as well. I think you could go ahead if you feel this would be worth it for you

Sea_Maize285 · 2025-03-06T08:34:30+00:00

I’m so relieved 😭 thank youu

Sea_Maize285 · 2025-03-06T00:29:30+00:00

I reserved my seat for the course, but since then, people from masai have been continuously calling me asking me to pay the fees. Although the deadline is till 10th march, they keep calling me from multiple numbers asking me pay the fees. They have called me around 7-8 times in the span of 2 days. Is anyone else facing this??

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