Pros
- Had great coworkers within the team (all have left) - Prime office location - Decent starting salary for fresh graduates - Firsthand experience of working at a startup - High performance = high monetary incentives - Good opportunity for networking with professionals across industries & regions Neutral: - Fast-paced and competitive - Stereotypical Singaporean startup culture: unclear boundaries & unpredictability
Cons
- High employee turnover for a reason - Insufficient training for new hires, team lead expects you to get the gist from the get-go with very vague explanations - Work-life balance is always threatened; you are expected to meet your quota-- and once you do, you're expected to overperform - No overtime pay; overtime being “unspoken but expected”, replying to messages after office hours - Does not have an internal HR team; any disputes are handled half-heartedly or easily dismissed - Team lead always instigates competition among employees and with the other teams - ALWAYS resorts to micromanaging if team does not perform well; does not take into consideration external factors that are out of their control - Inadequate coaching for those in PIP, but puts 5x pressure on them to perform better - CEO is egotistic and narcissistic, coworkers tell you to stroke his ego whenever you interact with him - Upper management likes to guilt trip employees, especially if overall performance is average or below average; you're told to question yourself all the time about your performance - Employee wellbeing is not prioritized - Burnout and exhaustion are equated to not being resilient