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Found 1,752 of over 4K reviews
4.0
71% Recommend to a Friend
National University of Singapore President Tan Eng Chye
84% Approve of CEO

Found 1,788 of over 4K reviews

4.0
71%
Recommend to a Friend
84%
Approve of CEO
National University of Singapore President Tan Eng Chye
Tan Eng Chye
440 Ratings
Pros
  • "Good work life balance with flexibility(in 344 reviews)

  • "Good working environment with good exposure(in 265 reviews)

  • Cons
  • "Not much career progression opportunities(in 136 reviews)

  • "a bit tired and work-life balance is not that good(in 49 reviews)

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    1. 5.0
      Current Employee, more than 1 year

      Good

      6 Jun 2023 - Medical Biller in Singapore
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Very good country & very knowledgeable atmosphere

      Cons

      I’m new but no one idea

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    2. 1.0
      Former Employee, more than 3 years

      [NUS-ISS only] Great Workplace Ruined by Senior Management Team

      7 Jun 2023 - Lecturer in Singapore
      Recommend
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      Pros

      1. Good leave entitlements and working hours (with occasional weekend duties) 2. Nice and pleasant colleagues to work with 3. Sense of satisfaction and achievement from teaching the students

      Cons

      Senior management team (SMT) are generally distrustful of the staff: 1. No remote work opportunity - SMT believes that staff are lazy and will not do work from home 2. Open office concept - open individual cubicle that makes it hard to conduct Zoom meetings with students or external clients. SMT occasionally walk around and took photos of staff who are not present in their seat 3. No staff development opportunities - no fund catered for academic staff to learn new skills; have to depend on free conferences or courses No townhall or equivalent has been conducted since the SMT is seemingly not interested to consider the views from the staff

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    4. 1.0
      Current Employee, more than 1 year

      Toxic workplace

      20 Apr 2023 -  in Singapore
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Big building and area. Good branding.

      Cons

      Peer-pressure to justify heavy workload, work during weekend and odd hours. No career progression and Low pay. Harsh political workplace, toxic people in all level i.e: junior, executive, till management. Since people brings in their own friends, they will form toxic groups to aleniate other group, they even on each other's throat within their own group, gang-up and spread false accusation against individual is very common. Expect to work in fear and demoralized as you don't know who is your friend/enemy. Power crave management who will find every single reason to attack, belittle, and get rid of you, i.e: the discrimination against minority (race, marriage status, citizenship status), even local is backstabbing against each other too, nitpicking every single mistake, nus alumni staff vs non-nus alumni staff, computer sabotage, or anything that you can think of. Most of staff who join for many years, still do same mistake over and over again, still not know what to do, don't take ownership - Unacceptable. General knowledge for high turn over staff at NUS business, science, Med, Ro for example, because of nasty politic, such as: the staff who already resigned but being forced to write reports beyond his/her last day, staff being framed, being bullied, being outcast, sabotaged. Highly individualistic, No teamwork, No one share info in the nbox or email or sharepoint, each of them keep work info for themselves. Just wondering how these toxic and evil people's life would be, after broke many of people's rice bowl. What comes around, goes around.

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    5. 1.0
      Former Employee, less than 1 year

      Terrible manager

      23 May 2023 - Administrative Assistant in Singapore
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Many open spaces to escape from the office

      Cons

      had an pretty bad experience because the manager was uninterested in teaching. This was already a red flag but I still took on the role because I believed my friends who worked there and the general understanding is that people would be professional. People also have no understanding of boundaries. When I wasn't feeling well AND they had a work from home set up, i was forced to go to the office was even accused of being lazy and uninterested because I didn't want to go to the office. people like to play the blame game even when you have nothing to do with the task. left the moment I could. Good luck to existing admin staff in the dept.

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    6. 1.0
      Current Employee, more than 1 year

      lost in bureaucracy, no time for research, not inclusive culture

      8 Apr 2023 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Singapore
      Recommend
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      Pros

      NUS has all the equipment you might need for your experiments

      Cons

      I guess all I am about to say depends on the PI and the team, anyway this is my experience: There is a generalised FAKE culture of inclusion and freedom in your work. There is so much convoluted bureaucracy that most of the time is spent doing admin related tasks. Good luck if you have to buy something for your experiments, or go for a work trip - process is insane, before and after I have seen people working non-stop, over the weekends, meetings at 6pm on Friday, no balance, no boundaries..than you receive a weekly well-being email asking if you are ok. NUS is not an international environment, socially speaking you can feel very isolated, not all teams and PI encourage sharing and discussing honestly, no flat structure In other places I felt empowered, here you are powerless, some have fear to speak up and just end up nodding all the time - how sad is that?

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    7. 4.0
      Current Employee, less than 1 year

      Nice

      6 Jun 2023 - Lecturer in Singapore
      Recommend
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      Pros

      It is a nice campus with good people.

      Cons

      The culture is a little bit chilly and hard to be accepted as a new person.

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    8. 4.0
      Current Employee, more than 5 years

      Offers good work life balance

      9 Jun 2023 - Clinical Research Coordintor in Singapore
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Nice uni environments, plenty of food courts, most colleagues very friendly.

      Cons

      No career progression . Salary and bonus so so Heavy workload.

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    9. 2.0
      Current Employee

      Very low pay, part-timers are treated as dispensables

      3 May 2023 - Part-Time Lecturer in Singapore
      Recommend
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      Pros

      It depends on the department or faculty. If you are lucky, your course head or department head will make genuine effort to engage with you and be encouraging of new ideas. If so, you will feel like a valued member of the team, despite the low pay (one of the lowest, if not the lowest) amongst the autonomous universities for part-time lecturers.

      Cons

      If you happen to work with a department head or course head who does not view part-timers with respect, it is a very task-oriented and directive environment. “Orders are given, please do now” approach, even on weekends. A lot of things must be done without compensation (equitable or otherwise) as part-timers are only paid an hourly rate for class teaching.

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    10. 2.0
      Current Employee, more than 5 years

      Lab Tech

      9 May 2023 - Lab Technologist in Singapore
      Recommend
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      Pros

      - Flexible Hours - WFH options available - Benefits are not bad - Nice colleagues - Promotion is suggested by reporting manager but not controlled by them. Can still get promoted by putting in minimal effort.

      Cons

      - Super low salary - No progression - Promotion increment is minimal (additional $100+ only) - Likes to change system, most of which are worse than the previous version - Salary is controlled by central office and not by direct reporting manager, no matter how well you do, the managers have not much power because its all controlled by people who dont know you. - Multiple layers of approval required even for small items. - No OT pay

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    11. 4.0
      Former Employee

      Fintech Trainee 2021

      8 Jun 2023 - Fintech Trainee in Singapore
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Good onboarding and learning experience.

      Cons

      Modules are not necessary preparing you for the real task ahead

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