Wise

Extremely friendly people. The office team is the best I have ever seen (so many fun things are organized, delicious Friday buffet). The satisfaction of making a contribution in people's lives by helping them save money (compared to banks).

The company has recently digressed a lot from its core values. It is no longer a "revolution" because there are so many companies doing the exact same things, and they do it better. There is no sense of urgency for "getting things done." People are focused on turf wars, and there is a lot of politics going on with respect to ownership. The "oldies" in the company seem to think they are the powerful authorities, forming cliques amongst themselves, backing each other, giving promotions to their countrymen, not listening to criticisms, but overly eager to project the negative effects (arising from their behavior) on the other members of their teams.

We no longer keep customers first. We regularly increase prices to get more profit margins for the investors (but blame the increasing costs of employee salaries, which are way below market standards). We are no longer transparent to customers. We are regressing on the speed of transfers the last few months. The product is unusable, and the tech stack is unstable, but the product managers don't seem to care about them.

"No drama, good karma" – literally the opposite happens. There are ego problems with the "oldies" and leads. They can't take negative feedback and escalate to their leads if you tell them about these. Code reviews will get blocked because it is not written as per the other person's whims. Leads and product managers regularly do catch-ups as part of their day jobs, but nothing concrete ever comes that improves the product for the customers or the employees' careers. Leads are getting away by doing only easy tasks and literally exploiting the travel and remote opportunities to the maximum for themselves.

There is no autonomy anymore. Please don't get fooled by the blog posts; the company is growing big, and it is the leads who will be the managers and have literally unlimited control and zero accountability.

At the grassroots level, there are serious problems with a few older employees (by tenure) literally taking the company culture downhill. There is also nepotism, with the same countrymen promoting each other. Please do anonymous feedback, and have someone outside of the Singapore office go through the feedback and take action.