Shopee Reviews

1. Brief hierarchy of the company: Team Assistant (TA); Associate; Senior Associate; So on and so forth. If you just graduate from NUS/NTU/SMU, the entry level position offered to you will be Associate. If you're from any other local/private unis in SG, the entry level position the company deem suited for you is TA. So you may graduate the same year as your friend but they may be your superior because of your school:) These are applicable for fresh grads and majority of the teams only. TLDR, as a TA, you're basically everybody's assistant. You take instructions from anyone above your "rank" 2. Your day end at 7PM, so naturally you will miss your usual dinner time with your family and friends taking into consideration the travel time. (Timing can never match with your friends unless they starve and wait for you) 3. OT is norm and not paid (you feel elated when you're able to get out of office on time and still see bright sky lol. dont try to plan anything outside of work cause tasks are unpredictable and you may be given a task at 630PM and they expect you to complete asap) 4. Managers check in with you time to time and after sharing your concerns, work are still given to you (mgrs check for the sake of checking, they also need to report mah) 5. People are still working on leave/after office hours. Receiving messages and emails at 12AM? norm 6. If you speak chinese a) awesome cause you can 'blend" in easier and mgrs are generally glad to hear that you speak their mother tongue language b)boo cause you need to help your non-chinese speaking teammates (not their fault btw) with their work AKA translation. ppl from other teams will prefer to seek help from you than your teammate since they can communicate better with you in their language 7. No clear career progression, job scope not defined (always doing work with no background given) 8. Turnover rate high. around half of my teammates has left after staying for less than 6 months or before their 3 months probation. The burnout is real:) 9. Work is extremely manual. Time spent on Crtl C + Crtl V takes up your whole day, thats why the company needs TA 10. The only time you get to interact with your teammates is lunch time/ team bonding session (usually held after work but will still attend cause FOMO)

Horrifying culture that trickles down from the leadership. Horrifying. Period. Especially if you’re not used to hard-core a Chinese company culture. Just imagine the worst and that’s what it is. Employees are told to prioritize what’s best for Shopee over what’s best for yourself, unless it’s a “life or death” matter. Actual quote from the Csuite. Sound insane? True story. Not much to learn. Is there a strategy other than (1) Exponentially expanding to other markets burning cash, or (2) Endlessly hiring juniors to do the operational, manual, boring work vs actual tech innovation? Maybe. But if there is, it’s clearly not communicated down to the juniors. Sky high turnover rate. Most sensible people come in, get a shock, leave (many people leave even before 3 months probation out of pure shock), or constantly try to leave. Have you come across Shopee employees who are not actively trying to leave? Probably waiting for their stock to vest.