National University of Singapore Reviews

Pros

Very good country & very knowledgeable atmosphere

Cons

I’m new but no one idea

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

Pros

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

Cons

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

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.

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

Pros

Good onboarding and learning experience.

Cons

Modules are not necessary preparing you for the real task ahead