Pros
• There are some genuinely good and passionate people working here. These people are creative, talented, passionate about their work in spite of their workload, and strive to do better than some clients deserve. • Decent roster of brands to be exposed to and work on (F&B, fashion brands, telco, etc.) • Hybrid, 3 days WIO, 2 days WFH. Work hours start from 10-6. *Flexi arrangement. • Company provided device/laptop. • 16 days leave (a bit more than standard). • Decent/higher than avg pay (if you're coming in newly). • Yearly company trip. Generally they will try to stick to countries outside of Malaysia. • Chances of raising your salary is high, amount can be fought for as well, provided you can back it up with your work & leads vouching for you. • Tries to maintain a 'working family' sort of vibe. You get the feeling that you'll be closer to some of these people than you normally would in a working capacity. Depending on you, this can be a good thing. You will have people who claim that they love working in PE. This is true. You will also have people who claim that they have checked out and want to leave, but can't/won't due to personal issues or they're too comfortable here. This is also true. *Flexi with conditions. See cons.
Cons
• Some people are working here because they're just there for a job. Normally, this is fine anywhere else. But this is a creative agency. This leads to complacency and lessens the requirement to think outside of the box. The overall quality of work goes down, and is less of a challenge if you relish in solving problems creatively because the benchmark is lowering over time. • There are also some genuinely questionable people working here. Maybe it was due to the urgent hiring period, but some current employees were not vetted properly, deliver subpar work, and yet are seen more favourably. Why? They socialize better, and know who they should socialize with. • Which leads me to my second point, politics. This is a company which claims to have little to no politics. Unfortunately, unless you fit into a certain 'criteria' of theirs, you can be viewed poorly. This may leak into the way your work ethic is viewed, hard work discredited / shrugged aside, or general higher expectations of you without the compensation or acknowledgement. • PE is not as 'flexible' as it claims to be. The idea was, if you put in OT hours past 7/8pm, you are supposedly allowed to come in later the next working day, provided you inform your lead. This is rarely, if ever, practiced. • When covid/influenza season was going around, we still had to go to office. Sure, the office was sanitized regularly, but that did little to help the spread. It took not once, but two times whereby an entire team almost went down before we were all allowed to WFH for that duration. • Almost half of the company down meant unable to meet deliverables timeline. It meant other people needing to cover for those who are sick. It meant leading to burnout. • General imbalance of work. You have people who would stay back, OT for almost half the working week with no compensation. On the flip side, you also have people who cavort around the office most days, clock off early/on time. • Overall management short-sightedness. Some issues crop up over and over again, but due to the myopic view the leads and management have, it's easier to stick bandages on a bleeding wound than to tend to the root of the issue.