Ascend Group Reviews

3.6

74% would recommend to a friend

(152 total reviews)

56% positive business outlook

Ascend Group has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 152 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there.

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152 reviews
1.0
1 July 2021
Recommend
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Pros

In overall, the average IQ of all the employees in this company is 20. The company is Titanic, looks beautiful from outside, but once you are in, you will die, sooner or later. Thai employees try their best to show that they are incompetent, passive aggressive, fake…the list goes on.There’s no direction, and nothing is moving at all. The worst is that none of the management team knows how to move it. They are busy playing politic game.

Cons

Everyone tries hard to look busy without doing anything, and that’s only thing their brains can think of. A racist culture, Thai colleagues don’t care about non Thai and only speak Thai in the meetings, especially in front of the bosses to show how good their relationships with the Thai bosses are. HR always share confidential information.All non Thai, if they stay more than 1 year with Ascend,it’s because they have no where to go. And mostly because Ascend pay them higher than what they can do with their IQ. Eventually some worst performance Thai employees also couldn’t stand this company and left. If you are good at playing politics and nothing else, this is the place for you. If you are nothing good, it’s even better. In that case, You are made for Ascend.

2.0
15 June 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Good salary, good work life balance,modern, open and spacious workplace, some colleagues are passionate and talented - Ambitious vision that may excite some staffs to believe they are changing the world

Cons

-Although claiming to have start-up like culture with equality and opportunity across staff levels, the real company culture operates with traditional, seniority driven, and top down culture where the management team members are just confusingly executing on behalf of the company owner's wishes. - Lack of focus and competency to develop talents with greater capabilities and retain them - Top leadership teams are uninspiring, lack clear direction, unable to unify and connect with the rest of staffs in and from other levels/countries

1.0
29 June 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Politics, blame shifting, faking to be a multi-national company, attract talented people with high salary. I wouldnt even want to take into consideration of all the good reviews with vague description of 1-2 sentences only. Take a look at the negative reviews with detailed write up and if you understand, you are a smart person and find yourself not suitable to take up any role. If you do not understand the reviews, it means you are very suitable for a position with this company.

Cons

If you are a non-thai, i will salute you and wish you good luck for the next couple of months before things take a drastic dramatic turn at you. you have no clue or hint on your KPIs and after a few months, suddenly you are hit with the most unsuspecting chide. There's no authority at all (0 if you are a non-thai) as a head of department to hire your own team, every proposal (strategic long term plan) seems to get shot down but they want you to do project management (short term) aka highly paid PMs. You will find yourself having no control over thai teams reporting to you, even when you are their reporting manager, their authority is much higher than you. Worst of all, you have no say at all over their performance ratings, even if you want to award lower ratings for those who just know how to fake working hard and best friend of the highest command executive, your decision will be over-ruled . Change management is alienated in this company because it doesnt exist from the top or their dictionary, so dont bother to do force yourself to do change management for the sake of showing people a good front that you are doing it. I wouldnt even want to give 1 star if i had the choice to give 0

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