Pros
Believe the reviews that say the pantry and the aunties are the best here.
Cons
I used to give these negative reviews the benefit of the doubt. But only now do I know if there’s smoke, there’s bound to be fire. Work is hectic, messy, with lots of group chats for every single thing we were involved in, and the bosses want everything fast and furious. Forget about delivering quality work. Oh, but of course the work can’t be bad. So in the end you have to deliver anyway. The company seems confused over the branding for its new products – DigiSME and Jobs Lah. These were created without much thought to the branding or even its solution features in a highly saturated market. Why is DigiSME even called ‘SME’ when it does not cater to only SMEs? Where are the AI features for Jobs Lah’s employers, especially when compared to Foundit and new competitors? It’s all fluff and no substance. And not even the shiny, attractive kind of fluff with everything rushed as it is. Meetings with their SEO team in India is a frustrating waste of time every Monday with no big signs of growth in rankings even after a whole year from their SEO specialist and after we caved in and delivered everything they asked for. Even website changes that didn’t make sense from UX perspective. But guess who is getting the axe here? This company prides itself on its ‘No OT policy’, but it is mostly for show and only for support team, or some sales who would slack off but are still there for some reason. No OT? Sure. Just bring your work laptop home like what some of us do almost every day. Work-life balance? Yup. Some of us were working even though we were on MC, on leave, and all that for this? This is the first time I’ve ever been terminated in a company. But I can’t say it’s the first time this company has done so. They have terminated in groups before in the past, all without reason. No discussion, option and extremely sudden. I was shown to the meeting room and told to either choose termination or resignation. One by one with 6 others in my team like stunned sheep heading to the chopping block. We were made to write a resignation letter on the spot, surrender all our work items, leaving like criminals out the door even though we did nothing wrong that would warrant a dismissal without notice. Even if the company is not obligated to give a reason for termination, is it right for them to terminate without notice if their group of employees did not have any serious misconduct? I find it strange too that this came right before December where we would normally get our bonuses. And if it’s a performance issue, why weren’t we given any warning at all? Skipping straight to the chopping block instead? Funny how our performance reviews tied in with the bonuses are coming soon and you decided to just show us the door. And even so, as a professional, and also part of workplace ethics, wouldn’t you at least have a warning, or performance discussion, or role change option if your role has become redundant? This is coming from a company that has supposedly won the SHRI awards and is proud of its horizontal career transitions for its staff. But what they fail to mention is the mass terminations they have done so in secret in the past. And this company is not even Amazon. Update: Apparently, they’ve fired 7 of us and reposted 3 jobs at a much lower pay rate, with the newcomer needing to do all our roles in one. Everything including digital marketing, events, performance marketing, content, partnerships and even design. This includes rehiring a designer on a budget after firing their only designer in Singapore. If you’re going to do that…why even give someone an increment only to regret it and terminate the person? No reason for termination? I think your reasons are pretty clear. Good luck finding some superhuman robot yes-man to do all the work at a fraction of the pay while expecting even faster results with a team that lean. Truly SME behavior from a CEO who flips his mind as much flipping roti prata. But I guess anything will work if you’re blinded to think that Canva = Photoshop, and GPT is perfect as it is even for Chinese translations (which of course will sound perfect to those who can barely read it). And I suppose anyone can do a Canva design in 1 day or less if they have no other pressing tasks on hand (but have time to moonlight in another job). Of course, if you think our team which is handling 4 brands at once is slow, don’t bother being flexible and setting up your ads first to run and updating the design later. Just go straight to termination, cause that always works. Ps. This review was not written by ChatGPT.