Read all the reviews here, you’ll see many people share the same opinion.
Pros
If you’re lucky, you’ll meet nice other people who would most likely go through your tough time there together
Cons
1. You’ll be facing or working with a cofounder that is duly in his own fantasy world. He cares zero about you as an employee and the only thing matters is money, profit. Little he cares what and how he impacts the employees of Umai. 2. They sugarcoat you during interviews a lot about the environment, situations, the company to get new hire onboard. Don’t get fooled. They will claim you’re free to work remotely, wouldn’t be monitored about your lunch hours. Don’t get fooled again. They capture your timing you come to office, go out for lunch, return back from lunch. They will tell you that you have XX number of leave days, go travel around, take the day off, please don’t get trapped! 3. Their official working hours is 10 hours in a day which is generally longer than MANY MANY companies over here in Malaysia. Even if you go home 15 minutes after your work hour ends, you’ll have people asking you why are you going home early. With that being said, they expect you to come early, finish work until late night. 4. If you’re hired for your expertise, forget it you can practice is over here. You’ll still need to do whatever the cofounder feels is right. If you would like to advise them, you’ll then need to write up a proposal and take 2 weeks of daily arguments just to verify your point and experience. 5. Cofounders acts like he cares by listening to what the employees got to say, he will even carry out workshops to make you say everything but later on when you see there will be no follow up action on whatever opinions you’ve contributed. 6. If you do not do things like the co-founder wants although he’s doing it wrongly, he goes upfront to threaten you to sack you! No joke. He apparently doesn’t like being challenged. It’s always “ listen to what he says. “ 7. You’ll be disturbed by almost triple digit Whatsapp group on your phone using your own mobile number. So you can imagine what kind of disturbance you get during weekends and after work (at 1-2am yes!) 8. Even if you’re on a holiday, the cofounder calls you give you a work and ask you to work on something that he will claim “IT IS URGENT”. But guess what, even after 3-4 days after that urgent work was done during holidays, the work wasn’t sent out to the customers! 9. You’ll be hyped by beautiful words to work on projects but let me tell you, your project will not be read until full and he will probably already reject your project. Why care? Why the effort? 10. Did I tell you the cofounder cares for the tech team more and does everything he does for them just so someone comes in see the bad culture and doesn’t leave.
