Sub-standard quality of work, below avg team, but with great pay - Senior Product Manager Indeed Employee Review

2.0
8 May 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- People are generally friendly and good to talk to - Pay is top of the market for Singapore. Since they have limited brand value in the market, they pay big bucks to compensate to buy out people from other companies.

Cons

- Lots of talk, but little real action: Since Indeed in Singapore hires a lot more “managers who talk fancy” rather than “actual doers”, there’s very little work that actually gets accomplished on a weekly basis. Most work gets caught up in holding patterns of useless debates/micro-alignment, and eventually teams celebrate tiny A/B tests at the end of 3 months as “massive impact”. The actual amount of work that gets each quarter is a joke, really! - The office is pretty much a satellite engineering office for the most part: Strategy/goals gets “handed down from the top” from US bosses. Or even if the teams come up with bottom-up ideas — they need “permission from the top” to even try it out. The culture is very top-down for the most part. - The management in the US doesn’t trust the teams in Singapore, hence prepare to be micro-managed a lot. Have a problem with micro-management? Sorry, you’re not “aligned” — don’t even try pushing back as micro-management (ex: getting your simple A/B experiments approved before testing) is the expected cultural norm here. - Culture in Singapore reminds you a lot of working in a large bank: Lots of politics, people sweet-talking on the face while they complain behind your back, lots of talk around process yet very little work actually gets done, leaders who do a lot of theoretical pseudo-intellectual debates but with little practical implementation knowledge nor experience. - Hiring processes are broken: The quality of the people varies a lot. You might find an occasional outlier rockstar but huge variations in quality of folks. From a Singapore standpoint, the overall avg engineering quality is definitely below market, and part of it can also be attributed to the quality of product-mandates held by Singapore teams — since the work is not very challenging, you don’t tend to attract the best engineers anyways! How many engineers would just want to move around a couple of buttons everyday?

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Indeed Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your review of your experience with Indeed Singapore. We are listening and acting on all the feedback we receive across our external and internal feedback channels, so we appreciate the time you have taken to give us this. All of Indeed’s engineering offices own their own products and missions. In some cases, where projects are still in early development stages, we may lean on other offices for support. However, we are continuously working towards Indeed’s vision for teams in every office to achieve their goals autonomously, without having to check in with HQ. Indeed’s development ethos is to iterate and test quickly, and avoid big waterfall delivery projects. Quick, well-crafted A/B tests mean we can learn what works and what doesn’t, before investing in significant effort to scale a solution, and we are excited about the opportunities this presents for our team here, as we further establish ourselves. As we continue to expand in Singapore, our recruitment teams are working hard to find the right talent to join us. However, we know the best hires are sometimes made through referrals, so we encourage you and other teammates to share opportunities within Singapore with your network, through our internal career site. There are multiple projects and teams in the Singapore office. Every team member, in every team and every office, will have a different experience, so we always welcome further insights or feedback from team members like yourself on how we can do better. You can do this by reaching out to your local team leads, HRBP team or even emailing us at inside@indeed.com for a confidential conversation.

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