Don't consider joining - Anonymous employee Hyphen Group Employee Review

1.0
22 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company is actually run by Nova Founders, one of the shareholders of the company and reflects a big conflict of interest. In terms of pros, if you are young, you will be provided plenty of opportunity to learn and grow, but you will be sacrificing your work/life balance and will be put under tremendous pressure. The pay is ok, it's not great, but it's also not bad.. unless you are an intern. There are experienced people here who you can learn from and pick up good advice, unfortunately they don;t stay long enough for you to gain anything substantial from them as the inexeprienced management team steamroll over any decisions and constantly make last minute changes expecting everyone to obey their commands on a whim.

Cons

Micromanagement is immense. There is no consideration of work life balance, the technology teams are managed by people who have no background in tech so expect to be asked to do things that make no sense. Long hours are expected, and the chances of getting fired are quite high. Attrition rate of this company in all departments is high, when people realize that they have no control over what they are doing and have their life sucked away.

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5.0
18 Sept 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Great place to learn and grow - Management is willing to mentor and help you learn - Colleagues are very diverse, come from all corners of the world. Makes for interesting and fun workplace - If you prove yourself capable, the opportunities here are incredible. You could be given full ownership over a project, and even put in charge of a team - Fast growing company that recently received considerable funding from VERY credible investors - Great market opportunity for the space the company is developing in - Many teams and positions and flexible arrangements where you could move around teams if you want wider exposure - Hong Kong is a great place to work and live - and so much more... Honestly could not recommend this company enough!

Cons

- Typical frustrations of working at a startup: - Lack of engineering talent in Hong Kong makes it difficult to find and retain good programmers (but this is a widespread problem across startups in Hong Kong) - You need to be very self-driven to succeed here. You need to be able to own your project/product/code, be eager to learn, and keep an open-minded - For former bankers/consultants: startup culture is very different from banking/consultancy culture in terms of work/life balance. Which could actually be a bad thing when you're leading a team and used to being a perfectionist

2
1.0
23 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- remuneration package was very decent when compare to similar institutions - good at making content that make people thinks it's a nice

Cons

- low quality service - scam reward mechanism, no one follow up with the enquiries - worst HR department i have never seen in my past over 15 years experience, only say what they want to say and they don't listen, employee review was robotic, ask questions, then you answered with no continue conversation. it was not a conversation - bad culture - financial completely rely on investors and large scale retrenchment can be happen suddenly, it happened few times already but they never announced

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