Pros
The only benefit one would probably get from this place is the daily "free lunch" assuming the food given to staff are not kitchen leftovers. There is no menu, everyday is a surprise.
Cons
- Very high turnover rate. A lot of people leave before confirmation. Lack of transparency about the turnover on the role that you are applying for. - This is a 5.5 days work week, squeezed into 5 days = 8.5hours Monday - Thursday and 8 hours every Friday MINIMALLY. - Never shortchange the company of work hours, but company can make you work extra hours for free. - The interview and contract signing all have to be face-to-face. Basically everything here has to be face-to-face. - 14 days leave. All the benefits here are the bare minimum stipulated in MOM website and the working hours is almost the maximum allowed by law. If they can remove the Medical Leave, Childcare Leave and others, they will. - Your orientation will begin with, "you have to remember the CEO's name and face" and they are serious about this like that will be the most important thing you will ever have to do in this company. - You will be issued used shirts and stationeries, sign a form stating their brand-new prices, which you will have to pay if you fail to return them upon leaving. Shirts of those who have left are being washed and issued to other newcomers. - Culture of Humiliation. If you take MC, you will have to queue for an appointment with "Dr.Neo". Those who go for Medical Leave will have to queue outside the CEO's office for everyone to see. You will then get questioned and humiliated as to why do you have to go for Medical Leave. Those who chose not to go through this ordeal will just take Annual Leave instead, which is already very little to begin with. - Culture of Fear. CEO's constant yelling and looking down on employees is a regular scene here. Everyone is dispensable. Whoever complains will get terminated. People are wary of one another. This is a place where people walk around one another without even saying hi. - CEO loves to showcase his success story every chance he gets. He loves to dare people to challenge him which of course, no one in their right mind would do. He loves to scream and yell. - Everything here is all about "Hail CEO" if you want to stay. But not everyone who stay climbs up the ladder. - Culture of Distrust. The management have to see everyone face-to-face in the office every single time to (somehow) believe that you are actually working for every hour you get paid. - Everyone was made to work in the office regularly DURING THE PANDEMIC, violating government pandemic protocols. When MOM came to check, guards alerted the office to disperse the people. - Salary every 7th of the month, COMPULSORY monthly monetary donation to be collected as soon as you receive your pay. Your name and donation are being presented to the management for them to humiliate you even further. Management keep asking for higher donation. - COMPULSORY blood donation. - Lots of politics and lots of kissing a_ _. - Zero planning. Zero respect for people's time. Zero accountability. Zero time management. Everything here is urgent and priority all at the same time even if you are the only one doing it. - Nothing ever gets done here. Work just keep piling up because nothing ever gets approved until the very last minute and you have to juggle revising existing tasks endlessly and while new works keep coming in. - Decision-makers don't even know what they want/what they are doing. Things will forever keep changing even on the very day that things are supposed to go out. - Prepare for a lot of regular URGENT AdHoc work/disruptions while you're doing 10 other URGENT things, all at the same time. Then they will wonder why things are not moving. - A lot of cost-cutting sugar-coated as going green initiatives such as turning off aircons early, turning off lights a few hours a day, toilets with light sensors outside the cubicle that goes off every minute if no movement. - No inclusivity and diversity. - Culture of Micro-managing. Everyone here is basically what the CEO wants, when he wants it. He just need you to function like slaves or machines. Never ask, never complain. - Don't even think of voicing out an opinion. Everyone here gets shutdown and minimised to just doing whatever they want you to do. - Prepare for increased workload during peak periods and taking on other works such as helping in the kitchen. Prepare to work full on even eves of CNY and Christmas. - Read the earlier Glassdoor reviews. All of them are true and more.
