Vana Retreats Team Member Reviews

Likes

If you are from Dehradun, it’s a place to work. As you may find some time to spend at home ( forget the festival times) . Cafeteria food is provided to every employee . Medical checkup’s are provided by company at regular intervals. A day off is given every week . PF is deducted and company also contributes to it. Most of the time you may get the applied leaves( apart from festivals and busy period) The property is amazing with tranquil nature and prestine clean air. The guests coming are mostly humble and not very rude....Read More

Dislikes

The owner has unclear objectives ( every three months the focus changes) Top management is ridiculous . If you see their performance from outside, they seem to be unworthy of their high post , the only reason they have sticked around is buttering and pampering the owner. Middle management are mostly the ones who have been working since the beginning but are actually the dumbest beings in the property. Their focus is on the owner rather than the guests. The working staff are a bunch of headless chickens who are busy in working but with minimal productiveness The work load and stress is too high, although the actual work is very less. For eg : A guest’s food order requires 1 chef and 1 service team member to serve, whereas Owner’s food order requires the Head chef with three other chefs and F&B manager and two others to serve. The owner’s coffee is made only by team manager and above position . They cut employees in every year or two in the name of dhansantushti only to rehire in a few months, so your job security will always be on ultra high risk. The f&b service staff also has to serve as a office boy for other departments which gets quite humiliating sometimes....Read More

Work Details

The growth prospects at Vana is pathetic. The promotion happens to those who have worked for long , your skills or communication doesn’t matter. There are team briefings happening twice a day where the seniors dishonour and demoralises t

Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Management is good, companies policies are always favour employees. Friendly work culture. Most important thing is environment, working environment as well as nature environment. Suitable for everyone to work there.

Dislikes

Nothing is like one can dislike about Vana.

Work Details

Work days: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

The Team in lower level is very much dedicated to their work and so much serious about there profession.

Dislikes

The top management is always in confusion they keep experimenting the things which mostly ends with the failure and unnesessary hustle over the operations. And once you enter as a Team memeber please forget that they are going to promote you or going to increase the salary. Work and life balance is poor .

Work Details

Zero, the work and life balance is zero and if you are doing hard work even you will not get the compansasion for that.

Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)

Likes

Good work environment and culture.

Dislikes

Salary is decent but growth is really slow.

Work Details

Great as trainings happens on continuous basis.

Work days: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

12 hours shifts are going on from March 2020 till date, and salary is also deducted we are working more with a less salary.

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Work Details

Work life is struggle, no leaves, salary cuts, no training, no team development, no training of equipment etc etc

Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Work ethic is average. There is a huge cafeteria where you will always pray for taste, and gaming zone and zymnasium for the team where you will not get time cause you have to do long hours shifts unnecessarily cause your managers are poor in time management.

Dislikes

Do hardwork, give your heart and soul but at the end you will not get promotion and hikes cause the Management already spend the budget on unnecessary senior staff and in research.

Work Details

Seriously first two years are like okey iam going to learn something new but after that same schedule in the name of training only relivant to work which is not going to improve your soft skills for out of the world. Sadly very poor management.

Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Force to say goodbye to many of us,and it is a SOP of company that "say goodbye" every year.

Dislikes

Lot of politics, no carrer groth

Work Details

Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

compensation & Benefits

Dislikes

Job Security

Work Details

Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

Likes

Overall good and more helpful who want to have spiritual guidance

Dislikes

Nothing

Work Details

Work days: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Ambience, concept,vision

Dislikes

Shift timming, politics.

Work Details

Work timings: Strict Timings

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Everything about VANA.👍🏻👌🏻 Always & Anytime like to go back and work for VANA.

Dislikes

Not applicable.

Work Details

Amazing work experience and VANA family.

Work days: Monday to Saturday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Everything about vana

Dislikes

Nothing specific , everything is great

Work Details

Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Learning and development rejuvenate

Dislikes

Nothing

Work Details

Healthy and balanced life

Work days: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Everything.

Dislikes

Nothing

Work Details

Work days: Alternate Saturday off (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Company policies have changed a lot, they used to be employee friendly. Project Dhansantushti is the name of the annual ritual of golden handshakes, where people are kicked off and then they start re hiring again. Nobody at Vana who is hired to do a job ends up doing the same job, in fact they run around like headless chickens they do not know what they are supposed to do. There is a lot of foo foo about karma and dharma, yet the level of toxicity is incomparable. I should be grateful as being thrown into the deep end has served me well and I learnt a lot, and exited when there were just games being played and no work done....Read More

Dislikes

Lots of politics: the focus is on placating the owner and not on work. Only the sycophants have stuck on, those who have nowhere else to go. The promotions are given to those who are in the owner's radar, irrespective of their work and actual contribution. There is a very negative environment of perpetual dissatisfaction. There is anexus of people who act as filters of communication and make sure the honest picture is not presented to the owner. The owner is very benevolent to his new senior management hires in the beginning, and then just drops them like hot potato and insults them. They take the insult because by now they have grown used to the pampering (gifts and privileges) and know they will not be hired at the same position anywhere else. In essence, highly toxic environment. Also, there are no trainings for skill development of the employees. The management has money for multi tiered gold leafed cakes but no money or inclination to give their designers a simple adobe refresher. Really, have never seen this pell mell anywhere else....Read More

Work Details

Operations, Marketing, Communications

Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

This is really a nice company to work with where you would come to know about unique Vana culture. Company organise different types of training programs for it's employees for Their professional and personal growth. Vana provides a world class quality food to its team & gives neat and clean quality clothes to attair.

Dislikes

Everything is great in vana like management, team mates & growth opportunities.

Work Details

My work with Vana was promotion & marketing of Vanaveda's natural cosmectic products and simuntenstilloy I was responsible for procuring the raw and packaging materials for these products.

Work days: Monday to Saturday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.