Pros
Good remuneration and there are still some capable technical people in the org
Cons
Singlife is now an ageing star. Back in its glory days it was the talk of the town, launching cutting edge financial products with a startup mentality. Walter was a truly visionary leader. But there were consistently problems with the systems that came back to bite users, which led to bad user reviews and complaints. But the moment Singlife jumped the shark truly was the merger with Aviva and associated restructuring. The new process involves getting business teams involved in signing off app and web updates, and it has become a real pain to maintain the speed of delivery that as a startup Singlife was known for. There are glaring technical deficiencies that remain, but business would rather focus on the cosmetic issues because that is all their non-technical minds can understand. There is a real sense of power-play with certain people creating silos around their business verticals and the sense of startup spark and collaboration is gone in favor of the kind of politics you see in big stagnating companies. Walter, we need you back. Ned, you need to really get in the trenches and see what ails our org. We broke our backs to create Singlife out of nothing, and it is a shame to see this become just-another-boring-insurer with no vision and no technological advantage.