Detached from reality - Anonymous employee AsiaOne Employee Review

Respectfully, please come back down to planet earth. Management is way in over their heads about the company's place in our media landscape. A frankly embarrassing culture of thinking too highly of oneself when clearly they're nowhere near their counterparts. Higher-ups (especially the CEO) publicly and unabashedly 'trashtalk' competitors with such unprofessionalism depriving employees of any learning opportunities. It really is inferiority complex at its finest. Behind the CEO's cringeworthy 'work family', 'home away from home' preachings is a shocking lack (mayhaps absence) of self awareness. No employee actually buys into this ridiculous narrative though it hasn't once been called out. Most are probably quietly judging and others are using it to their advantage to work their way up. If he were anywhere 'on trend' (as the company's tagline would say), he would have known that calling the company a 'family' is the biggest red flag in any workplace. Unless he believes that he's 'off centre', of course. And that brings us to career progression. Again, the CEO micromanages all aspects of work down to pay increments. Where is HR you might ask? We're wondering the same. Incompetence is rewarded with unwarranted promotions. Competence and hard work are met with even higher expectations communicated as 'not doing enough', 'asking for too much', 'still needing to prove onself'. The CEO despises pay discussions amongst colleagues while blatantly revealing details of other employees' pay during individual apparaisals as a means of justifying increments that are less than the bare minimum; breeds a culture of unhealthy competition by pitting employees against each other, before swooping in as 'mediator' when tensions arise. (Almost like he secretly enjoys the drama.) He will not hesitate to put down teammates in private conversations as if to imply that he holds you in higher regard than said individual, or so he believes. In reality, all it does is reflect poorly on his leadership and the company culture. When management's done having their head in the clouds, maybe the company can get somewhere.