2.4
65% would recommend to a friend
Achim Weick
77% approve of CEO
Pros
The colleagues are friendly and young. It's not a big challenge once you pick up the working process. Rarely OT.
Cons
Sometimes it could be a big cost of communication with German headquarters. It's difficult for people to understand the difficulties in different markets, especially in Asia.
Pros
- Loads of promotion opportunities because the turnover rate is very high. If you are seeking a quick boost with your title before engaging in a real job, here is the perfect place. - You can describe yourself as someone who wear multiple hats in your next job interview, because taking up cross-department duties is a must when the company is always understaffed and has a complete absent of actual management. - Great chance to be part of the entrepreneurial/RegTech/digital- hype because your LinkedIn network does not have to know that you actually work at a website production sweatshop which objects to forming any kind of SLA. Client therefore has no ground to sue even you hear about it all the time. - Major operation crises and service failures happen more often than you can ever imagine. Unlike any other companies, front-line staff take full responsibility in resolving crises while operation management disengages as much as possible providing no remedies. No one will steal your thunder so you can be creative. - Cross-department team-spirit is seen as a huge threat against the local management because people were united in addressing management's problems. Op management (who also represents HR) makes sure people can't bond over internal conflicts. If you are lucky, you will be hired as executive assistant to help dividing people, spreading paranoia and such. That's a rare opportunity for good money.
Cons
- HR oversells the company at interviews with buzzwords like entrepreneurial/RegTech/digital, new joiners feel cheated after working for 2 days.
Pros
There is a nice restaurant downstairs.
Cons
The Hong Kong office is run like a local company, although it tries to brand itself as a multi-national firm. The German senior management doesn't interfere and does not attempt to organize things in a more efficient way. People are mostly preoccupied with office politics and shifting work to others, rather than with doing the job better and making customers happy. Customers are frustrated, but no one cares: some people would even take a day off just to avoid meeting with a customer, angering them even more. Some middle management is so spineless that they can't say "no" to their own subordinates; they're scared of them. Whenever people are doing any work, they are hiding it from others and from their management, so that they are the only one who know the state of affairs and cannot be replaced by anyone else. The company has created and maintains a culture of open aggressive attacks against anyone who questions existing practices, or tries to improve anything. Expect retaliation if you don't respect the hierarchy and don't recognize the unquestionable authority of the boss, who is always right and doesn't need to explain themselves. People are organizing into groups to harass other employees together. There is absolutely zero spirit of teamwork, everyone is waging their personal vendettas and will go to extreme lengths to avoid helping others, as if it threatened their own position. That environment leads to customers being strongly disappointed with the company's uncompetitive products, and it is surprising how the company still managed to stay afloat so far.
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