Garena Reviews

4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(660 total reviews)
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Forrest Li

92% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Garena has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 660 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Garena employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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660 reviews
1.0
25 Jan 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good snacks in the pantry, free monthly massage, decent business travel benefits

Cons

- No basic respect to employees. You are expected to work OT even you have an approved compassionate leave for major family tragedy and funeral. Right after your compassionate leave, they give you performance evaluation warning that's without a clear expectation and any performance KPIs so you are clueless on what went wrong. The reason of such performance warning is you didn't submit a deliverable during your approved leave. - You are expected to stay online and be next to your laptop literally 24/7, afterwork, at midnight, in the weekend, during your annual leave even during your sick leave. Your manager will "teach" you that it's normal and part of the company culture to occupy your personal time. - The late nights here are NOT like just 10pm, late nights are 3am and even 5am. Happen every week. The next day you have to be on time in the office. - They require you to work in the weekend like nothing. It's not a common practice to get back the working weekend as extra off in-lieu. You need to fight hard to gain such extra off in-lieu after full day weekend work. - Your planned and approved annual leave may be asked to canceled on the day of your leave, or you can be called back from your annual leave if your company needs you. It's not a matter of a fast-pacing environment and workload, these are all just basic human respects.

1.0
17 Jan 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

most people are Chinese, you can speak chinese at most of the time. Actually this is a singapore based chinese company.

Cons

no annual bonus, no overtime reimbursements, no company culture, liitle salary increase. If you want a easy job, Garena is best place for you. But if you want to learn or make money, ... then forget it

1.0
6 Oct 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Good snacks, nice office - Good base salary

Cons

- Do not let their seemingly high base salary fool you (well, many others match it now). Your annual bonus is around 0.5-1 month on average. No other bonuses. No overtime allowance. - They expect you to work overtime a lot. Do not respect personal time AT ALL, whether it's night time or weekend. - Bosses give one-way orders, feedback channels are largely ineffective. Some of them are very power thirsty, their employee wellness does not matter as long as they look good in the eye of higher management. And they micro-manage a lot. - Chinese culture. Expect to hear Chinese in your meetings, a lot. - Many managers from the company's early days are incompetent. Possess little to none management and technical knowledge. But they rank very high in the company. - Repetitive tasks. They are very conservative about updating new tech.

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