Agoda

The company is growing. Team members are friendly. The pay is decent.

The technology management is extremely bad in Singapore. There is an air of "holier than thou" attitude from the software manager towards the team members. He doesn't give any room for people to think and expects everyone to execute "tasks" which he himself writes. He just trusts anyone and micro-manages.

Add to it, extreme favoritism and nepotism shown towards people who he likes personally and who will do whatever he asks them to do. Take for instance, one of his former colleagues who he personally brought into the company without any interview. This person, though technically sound, doesn't do any work at all and is having a happy ride because the manager backs him to the core. But if you are on the bad side of the relationship with him, your happiness is spoiled. There was even a team member, an extremely hard-working guy, who was forced to leave because he wasn't in good terms with the manager.

He also treats the team members as if they are a throw-away paper. He questions them with a curt, indifferent attitude and shows faces when you make a mistake, making you feel extremely sorry. I can see a few of the teammates mentally disturbed to the point of talking to themselves while walking down the hallway.

Please spend time asking for feedback from team members to understand what we are going through.

Don't rely on credentials when hiring managers. Someone from INSEAD need not be a good manager; you need people who have good people management skills.