Pros
✔️ The money was good
Cons
🚩 Windows laptop for development that wheezes if you run a couple of heavy apps…need I say more? RUN! 🚩 GNZ heavily controlled by Sembcorp’s archaic policies 🚩 Phishing tests being shoved down your throat and tricks being played all the time. If you have anxiety this place sure will send you over the hill. 🚩 Annoying mandatory training that’s frankly bordering on clockwork orange style treatment. They have phishing related posters in the restroom…yes! 🚩 No autonomy or freedom to try out and use tools on corporate laptop. 🚩 Infrastructure access is severely limited and heavily controlled under 7 layers of security. It’s such a massive time waste every single time to login even for a basic email or a deployment app 🚩 Everything is cluckin’ Microsoft, including Teams and Azure DevOps 🚩 Teams: cluckin’ app full of bugs. There is no Slack-like integrations from Azure to Teams. It feels like I have time traveled back to the 90s 🚩 Getting access to infra that is required for you to debug properly is gated and involves a lot of begging, pleading and following up with RO and associated teams. 🚩 Websites you would need to access for your development work like NPM are blocked, yep! And they will not remove that block. 🚩 There is a lot of big useless reactions and theatrics of reactions from non-tech people who aren't interested in technical details 🚩 The CTO is apparently very intimidating and feared because his modus operandi is to "severely scold people" (haven’t experienced, only heard the same review from everyone from low to high ranks) 🚩 Here speaking in linkedin-ese is valued and taken seriously especially in “Stakeholder Management” which actually translates to spewing a lot of empty words that mean nothing. In short, this place is Dante Alligeri’s version of h-e-l-l for software, run now!
