Avoid shrinking office with favouritism, think hard before joining - Sales and Marketing Zenyum Employee Review

2.0
6 Sept 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- more than average culture in office -open plan environment and some team events - healthcare industry exposure

Cons

- No fair play - very 'suck up to boss' culture. Some senior leaders allowed to be disrespectful, change rules to suit only them or continue with bad business performance without any penalty (maybe in some cases even reward because they are close to founder). They show bad culture and push some "favourite" juniors for promotion even if they are not good at their work. -Churn - lot of good people leaving over the last 1-2 years and feels like more going to. Management should understand reality is that most good people want to work in good culture with equal treatment, not in 'suck up and watch your back' cultures. - Management focus on 'controlling' bad feedback or threatening employees instead of admitting bad culture and favouritism - this is why I am mentioning 2 teams in the title of this review even though these teams are separated in Zenyum. -Bad business - every few months we see or hear of silent layoffs in some market, and every time management and CEO come and give some loose explanation and promise 'this is the last time'. Reality is no one knows because good people leaving fast, and only people who can build an easy life focussing on sucking up instead of doing good work staying on. - Act like 'everyone is one team'. Hear stories of some people paid 15/20k while others given no bonus despite promises in writing. The biggest problem is that while being greedy about money, company is greedy with RSUs also. Situation for general workforce is bad and hear that most RSUs kept back by 1 CEO, He can praise people when they are new and publicly take credit and department away when he wants - moving away from the reality that actually on a day to day basis he himself is not playing a big positive role in the company. - Bad position to be in as women - many many bad experiences and women leaving over last 1-2 years, including some serious problems. To continue we are expected to act a certain way and under some bosses - if you look around at the women doing well you will see very similar feature at how they act, who they are close to etc. Very sad.

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1.0
3 Sept 2023
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Pros

Good teammates in CC team! 🫶🏻 My manager is the best! I learn so much and love her so much! 💛

Cons

Bad management in Singapore come and make things bad and hard for us. Our manager protects us like guardian angel so good they cari pasal with her to kick her out. Now nobody protect us from the bad managers. Office in KL city very expensive and far but management dont care. Food trucks make us all food poisoning.

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3.0
24 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Zenyum was built to disrupt dentistry and transform it into a world of smile cosmetics. You can see the ads, the communication, the technology behind the application, the disruption, the cool vibes, and the process and product innovation at its core. Your job will be fun. I was a member of the executive team for almost four years, even reporting directly to the CEO. I met amazing people, I am friends with the CEO and quite a few of the senior and junior team, and I learned a lot.

Cons

Same for every startup: The job is demanding. Startups need to disrupt, and that is generally done with speed — time-to-market is the key to success. Speed means late nights, weekends, and more than one canceled plan with a friend. Make peace with it or don't, but that will be the price. The pay will be below market. Salary: generally below market, as is typical for startups, and so it was at Zenyum. ESOP/Options/Shares are supposed to be the dream — the "all this effort will be worth it someday" element. Here, Zenyum was neither too generous nor fair. Zenyum did not give the Share Options earned by approximately 40 people the respect they deserved. In the latest acquisition by makeO (parent of Toothsi), we received a letter from Zenyum Legal stating that our ESOPs had been "canceled." From our research, they used a legal technicality to kill them. No explanation from the CFO, VC investors, or acquirers — just a silent dismissal. I could not have predicted that they would use a legal technicality to take our shares away, especially given that Sequoia and L Catterton were the investors.

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