Competitive salary, but poor leadership, management and work-life balance
Competitive salary, but poor leadership, management and work-life balance
- Reasonably competitive salary package in Big Tech.
- Lunch provided, decent flex-benefits, good insurance coverage.
- Startup-like culture where you are mostly working within a team of about 5 people in a department of 30 to 50 people.
- Colleagues are generally competent, but it varies from team to team.
- Decent name to have on a resume.
- Chinese Management: They are constantly replacing international employees with China ones. They typically exhibit poor leadership skills, cannot lead by example, and do not even try to fit into the company's vision as an international firm.
- Disrespectful colleagues in mainland China: They refuse to speak English and integrate internationally.
- Lots of wasted projects and directions: There's a lot of "resume-driven development".
- China-based colleagues disrespect WLB: They are constantly disturbing you at midnight and post-work hours.
- China-based colleagues work "hard" but not smart, and they are generally less efficient than SG-based employees.
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