Pros
SME company (even if the owner claims it is international company, actually they are SME but they have small office in Japan and US with 1-2 staff there). Sg office has around 20 people consisting of sales, operations, finance, procurement, IT and R&D team. Factory is in Batam and relationship between SG and Batam office are hostile caused by owner's bad relationship with his relatives handling Batam office/ factory. Be careful as this will impact your work when you need to deal with factory people in Batam. Employees are friendly and easy to talk to and work together. Not easy to get fired. In fact, many staff resign now and then as the situation is really bad and Management always blame staff when problems occur. The resignation process is always made very difficult and you are subject to humiliation and sometimes financial compensation when you resign. Be prepared mentally and financially.
Cons
Owner (Management) is arrogant and suspicious of their own employees. No respect, no trust to employees. Employees are treated like strangers as if we wanted to steal from them. From owner's words himself, people who resign are "cheaters who cheat around to make a living." This sounds unbelievable but these are the kinds of words that come out from the owner of the company. Salary issue is often brought up to "educate" employees. The work and products themselves are interesting to work on. The employees and team are friendly and help each other. However, the one thing that employees cannot bear is the owner of the company who does not even care what comes out from his mouth towards his employees on a constant basis. Salary is often paid late and employees need to queue to collect the cheque. Some employees get salary by GIRO, but majority are by cheque. Employees benefits are very minimum. There is no insurance coverage. Leave is also very minimum starting from 10 days per year and sometimes the management makes it forced leaved last minute as they do not care about employees' personal plan. Meetings are often purposely set at 6pm so employees have to stay back beyond work hours. This company thinks they own employees' life and that they can control your life.