Pros
Good monetary support from Arab owners; keeping this loss making and loser of a company going.
Cons
- Old boys club style senior management; plenty of butt covering for each other. - Fire fighting mindset / culture. All reactive policies. - Terrible relationship with suppliers. Receive no respect from vendors and contractors. - Many senior managers; i.e. directors and above are poor leaders and cannot motivate staff. - Senior managers do not have the courage to do the right thing for the company. They have mind set of just go with the flow and staying out of trouble. - Many dead wood senior staff are unmotivated and demoralised. No courage to resign. Just hoping and waiting for a potential retrenchment package to end their misery. - Plenty of internal cliques, in-fighting and politics that interfere with real engineering work. - Poor work life balance; expect lots of fire fighting. - Terrible work culture where people are not accountable for poor performance. - Plenty of finger pointer during mistakes. Everyone wants to cover butt first, not fix the problem. - Plenty of micro-managing; leading engineers to always wait for instructions. No passion or ownership. - Un-trustworthy / insincere, clueless HR that is management bias; aka puppets of management. - Silo work / mind your own business culture.