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SPH Media Limited

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Political whirlpool, unprofessional management - Digital Strategist SPH Media Limited Employee Review

1.0
24 Apr 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Decent colleagues within the immediate team. Decent leave benefits. Great room for growth if you're good at sucking up to people and/or are a scholar. Near MRT station.

Cons

Extreme politicking and senior management staff who are insanely petty. Middle management play games for personal standing rather than groom the team for collective growth. Bosses who will throw you under the bus when met with aggressive counterparts/clients. Toxic culture of hard work being dismissed if it doesn't fit the boss's agenda. Scholars get preferential treatment. Desire to safeguard print at the expense of digital, instead of growing digital stronghold for future-proofing. Lack of effective communication across teams. Astonishing lack of integrity for a company that lists "Integrity" as one of its core values.

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5.0
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Pros

The working environment is very good and colleagues get along well.

Cons

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1.0
9 Aug 2018
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Recommend
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Pros

- Work life balance. Seldom working overtime - Lots of autonomy on the surface

Cons

- Bureaucratic management. Requirement, deadline comes canned from management. No further questions allowed. Autonomy is just on surface. Everything is judged silently but not communicated back to developers. - Feedbacks to management falls on deaf ears. Management asked for feedback, nothing changes. - Middle management likes status quo, resulting in boring and not challenging developer's life. Idea is that doing nothing is better than doing something that might breaks. - Heavy politics across teams/departments/divisions. It is hard to get things working across organisation. Wheel get reinvented all the time. - When the annual appraisal is approaching, middle management will have lots of useless ideas and developers will be rushing to build middle management profile. - Culture and values are written on the wall, but actions from middle management seems to be opposite of those.

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