19 Jan 2018
Juris Technologies Response
8yWe are sorry that you feel this way. With the level of unhappiness and anger that you have, we suggest that you talk to your career counsellor or talk to your direct reporting manager. The reason why we have instituted career counsellors who are not your direct reporting manager is so that there is another party that you can talk to within the company to voice your dissatisfaction and your views. We have multiple avenues for you to voice up if you are really interested in providing constructive feedback.
Juris is known for growing heroes where the seniors spend time growing juniors. If you experience otherwise but you don't raise it up to a counsellor who can make a difference, the management would not know how to improve and rectify the situation if you choose to do this through an anonymous glassdoor posting. If you believe in opening up and you are willing to provide this advice to management, please take your own advice and do this in a constructive manner: talk to someone who can do something about your views.
As for the company investing in soft skills such as Seven Habits and Crucial Conversations, this is because we believe in training our staff in life changing behaviour that can impact their work, including managing projects and working with team members and clients which requires people skills. We do not invest in PMP training because now we are in going into full agile training and our investment is not in the traditional waterfall project methodologies. We have recently just developed agile training workshops which we are going to roll out as part of the Heroes Training Academy initiatives. For your information, now our customers themselves (the banking institutions) are not asking for PMP certified project managers because the industry is going towards more agile implementation methodologies.
As for having young people lead the teams, we have a culture of giving opportunity for young people to take leadership position and we have set up people in SPG and Code Central and other seniors to provide leadership and guidance. Every single person in the company is appointed a Direct Reporting Manager and an experienced Career Counsellor. There is no reason why a person who is taking a leadership position is not provided guidance. This does not mean the company does not have any failings, but it means that we learn together.
This goes back to your advice of opening up. If you truly believe in opening up, talk to your counsellor or someone within the company. If you have the courage, talk to management. We don't want anyone to come in so unhappy to perform work. You either run with the company vision or you don't.