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Overworked, Underappreciated, No Impact

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Agoda for 2 years
August 11, 2017
Bangkok, Thailand
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral Outlook
Pros
  • Reasonable pay for foreigners
  • Experience in a large travel company
Cons
  • Prepare to be overworked and underappreciated.
  • Your good ideas will not be noticed or used.
  • Your manager will probably be technically incompetent and have no experience managing people.
  • You will likely never see or talk to any other management; they don't mingle with the little people.
  • Employees who try to raise and address systemic or organizational problems will suffer for it.
Advice to Management

Rob Rosenstein, your managers are failing your employees. Senior staff should talk to your workers to halt the current drain; the high-potential employees are mostly moving on fast. Hire managers who can manage people, not micromanage technology (they are inept at that too). You have directors and senior staff you need to replace; you know who they are already. The People Team sure does.

An 'open door policy' gives the false idea that you will be made aware of pervasive problems, but it isn't happening. Your people deserve better than this.

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