Look under the covers - Don't believe Great Place to Work rankings
Pros
Product is good and development team delivers in every version.
Cons
Look under the covers I work in APAC and have compared notes with my Boot Camp Mates from USA and EMEA. APAC is really a horrible environment. Would you believe that a company that is ranked in Great Place to work has 30% turnover? How can this be? Look beyond the GPTW rankings, the culture BS company gives you and ask the question "What is the employee turnover and why is it so high?" Favouritism is the name of the game. There is a group that has been together for a while (since the beginning?) and this group pretty much decides what happens and who gets to be favourites. Highly political. These guys hang out all the time and bring others in for lunches and dinners just so the expenses are reimbursable. If you are someone who is from USA, you will become an instant favourite - especially if you have the capacity to form strong links with Corporate executives. Quotas are assigned based on favouritism. When this group decides to remove someone, intimidation comes from all angles and each one of them take a role to intimidate them from all angles. The Chief is not a people person and uses his front line to deal with people. He tries to portray his people focus by sitting in the open area during the quarter end but people are not fooled by this. Most people find this annoying and this is done only to get the last round of booking. Numbers are achieved always at the last minute - yes I meant "minute". No one trusts him. By the way, have you seen a leader who literally shakes on stage when he has to speak? You will see that here. This top management is a team of sociopaths with superiority complexes though their track record will not show their ability to scale the organization fast. You don’t believe me? - go check out their linkedin profiles - you will not see any signs of them being overachievers. Mediocre track record and what got them into the company is friendships and that is the origin of an "Old Boy's Club". These guys talk more about leadership than leadership gurus would and yet their actions are so silly. Hearsay is that management QBR is full of talk, no action items, lot of whining and no strategy. They will do ice-cream days and throw freebies at you when it is time for Great Place to Work surveys. Check out the employee turnover numbers - go do a search on linkedin. You will know. Other than the overpaid and under-worked people, no one hangs around for even 2 years. Don’t expect to be treated as a person but rather as a source that gets the management team to buy expensive condos and cars in singapore. Yes, they proudly talk about these quite a bit without realizing that there are poor people sitting on the same table. The company values are well written by the charismatic founder who has now stepped away and taken the values with him. Cristian and Chris need to come back. Everyone talks about the values but it is hardly followed. Honesty is nowhere to be found. No integrity. Internal conflicts between the departments are plenty. Some groups thrive because of all the nice things their leaders say "We work for you" and don’t really do much. Outside the development team, the average IQ is about half of what it is in product teams. Company is full of politicians giving lip service.
