SAINS Reviews

3.4

67% would recommend to a friend

(108 total reviews)
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Anderson Tiong Ing Heng

73% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

SAINS has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 108 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SAINS employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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108 reviews
3.0
15 Jun 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits incl staff and family health insurance, medical claim, housing loan

Cons

teammates may lack of cooperation

1.0
9 Feb 2019

Mediaeval Mindset, Totally Appalling Management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Standard GLC with their own salary scheme and job grading. It may be better slightly than the salary scheme of the civil service but then there won't be a pension. Exposure to ways of how a large organisation with a lot of SOP works. Learn how to follow instructions and don't try any heroic stunts unless you have been explicitly​ given permission.

Cons

There is no integrity among staff. Everybody try to plot, scheme and manipulate to get less work, get more room for visibility to management. Everybody wants to push the dirty plates to others and hope the not so good in office politics people take the fall for everything. The HR totally no integrity and act like mafia on behalf of the management. Not much you can learn here, too many SOP and slow in moving ahead in technology. There is always battle going in management about try to change this and that, rename the departments, reshuffle things and so on but not really do much improvement. A lot of senior staff here who been here for 10 years above already know the culture very well which is to offload the difficult stuff to new comers so they can enjoy easier life. Nobody care about improving what this and that. When people are here for a long time their priority become to reduce their own workload whenever possible and try to preserve their 'rice bowl' from been taken by others. Because at the end, company don't reward you for being superhero. They only reward people that are once in blue moon "suggested" by a manager. How the manager do such "suggestions" is normally biased to his own favorites not because the guy is the next potential Steve Jobs or Jack Ma. The company also have a silly rule to restrict Internet usage and list the Top 10 highest users of Internet data on company portal for everyone to admire.

1.0
6 Feb 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You normally have a month bonus at least unless someone really hates you. Some department heads are willing to look the other way when you needed to leave the office during office hours to do your personal tasks. How much you can do this and to what extent will be based on your relationship with the manager. Some may even get to leave the office premises for half day without even applying for any leave. Some can head home after an on-site meeting and call it a day even though it's far from 5pm yet. You can expect some courses they might organise for you to attend from time to time although how relevant is the course is not always the point.

Cons

Not consider a very good company. Too many old time managers who have become largely irrelevant today still hold on to their post and refuse to give way to younger generation. A company that practice hard dictatorship rules that while everyone else must do donkey work, a select few can sit back and lipsync to what's been done by others. Select few people will always be in the shuffling list for managerial posts and grade promotion while the rest can just "wait long long" until kingdom come. When things don't work right, they try to frame you up and threaten you to resign. When things work right, they said it's thanks to the excellence of the CEO, not you. The HR has been pretty amazing at keeping their carpet clean. Whenever a problem or concerns is voiced, they hide it under the carpet and side with the managers instead. In essence your manager can accuse anything he likes about you and the HR will not questions about it and side with your manager. The managers conveniently absent themselves when problems happen and miraculously appear whenever the situation calms down. Managers are here to only to put on a show and reap the fruit not to do much else. In actuality they are acting what Englishmen calls Little Napoleons.

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