Great workplace, but self-driven growth required - Senior Manager SPH Media Limited Employee Review

The working environment is very good and colleagues get along well.

The air conditioner is too cold

- Work life balance. Seldom working overtime - Lots of autonomy on the surface

- Bureaucratic management. Requirement, deadline comes canned from management. No further questions allowed. Autonomy is just on surface. Everything is judged silently but not communicated back to developers. - Feedbacks to management falls on deaf ears. Management asked for feedback, nothing changes. - Middle management likes status quo, resulting in boring and not challenging developer's life. Idea is that doing nothing is better than doing something that might breaks. - Heavy politics across teams/departments/divisions. It is hard to get things working across organisation. Wheel get reinvented all the time. - When the annual appraisal is approaching, middle management will have lots of useless ideas and developers will be rushing to build middle management profile. - Culture and values are written on the wall, but actions from middle management seems to be opposite of those.