REC Group Reviews

A lot of constant power struggle and political infighting. Company believes in retrenching people from the bottom, while top management and people from the same camp are safe and indispensable. Because of this, morale is low and people have low confidence. Top management is prone to poor planning and decision-making (the common feeling on the ground) because they are always made from the same group of people. Company is unable to keep and retain good, talented employees, either by laying them off, or causing them to leave on their own. People are always constantly leaving. Company has a culture of retrenching and hiring again, so people looking to join should think twice. A lot of workload on the people who stays, where bonuses/increments/promotions are none/little/not guaranteed. Top management should be in touch more with the ground.

Management (At least my department) is a big problem: 1. Too results-driven, too little emphasis on employee welfare. They see little value in nurturing and appreciating employees, and I feel undervalued for the efforts I put into my work. Sadly, even word of thanks from some managers doesn't even feel genuine. 2. No clear direction for projects: Plans keep changing (and can even change within the day itself), no clear KPI set, management wants MULTIPLE things accomplished at the same time but they are not on the ground enough to understand that some of their requests simply can't be done. Some managers have very bad sense of direction as what they want engineers to do wouldn't help to achieve the KPI. Anyway, there is no culture for upward feedback to managers on their performance from engineers, some of the managers couldn't care less.