Pros
Nonchalant, reactive culture, no accountability, helps if you're just wanting to not grow but even that’s not possible now. Lots of Annual Leave and cheap staff purchases, still figuring what I can feed my family with annual leave and washing machines.
Cons
APAC HR hires tonnes of foreigners to first cut a whole layer of regional people, some of which were identified as high potentials just a moment ago. They hire only foreigners and not locals, except in the case where they need people to do dirty work. As such, hiring and "internal transfers' are granted to foreigners who have no experience of the diverse APAC region. Management wastes money for expensive and redundant off-site meetings, dinners and unnecessary travels only to ask the rest to be prudent on costs. Gives out tonnes of t-shirts and mugs to try and boost morale not understanding none of these feed people's families. About to undergo another round of cuts in wages, after 2 rounds of restructuring within a year, all in the name of covid-19. No leadership from the APAC management team in taking the lead by cutting their own salaries, only so-called "leaders" trying to siphon company resources to "work-from-home". Those in the management here in APAC are incompetent and only here to enjoy their benefits and cheap travels to exotic Asian locations (beats travelling out of Europe), without trying to hire, grow or, less to say, care about the livelihood of local employees. They can talk, they sure can, but that's about it.
