After much consideration, I’ve decided to write this review because I feel that by not doing so, it would a great disservice to jobseekers.
The main take away from this is that I’ve learnt the value of my integrity and self-respect. This company has absolutely NO INTEGRITY and NO RESPECT for its employees.
My biggest issue with this company is the people (management in particular) that have no problems with LYING. Not only do they over-promise their clients, they lie by telling them they have many offices throughout Asia and lie about their capabilities when the clients have entrusted them to do good work. Then they lie to their team members who are already overworked to compensate for their disorganisation and understaffing practices. I was told by management to lie to clients to cover up older lies, and at one point, they wanted one of my colleagues to lie to the media and leak some false information about our client’s competitors (carry out a smear campaign). This is absolutely disgusting and unethical. The management obviously do not know what PR is, neither do they have a guilty conscience.
On top of that, they overcharge their clients. Big clients? Double, triple, quadruple the fee because they can. Small clients and start ups? Rip them off as much as possible because they do not know anything about PR, and who cares about them because their business might not even survive in the next few months right? I feel so so sorry for the these clients, embarrassed actually, to even say that I work for this company when I’m told to lie to them or be put in a position to carry out nonsense work due to the incompetency and disorganistaion of management. When every falls apart, management will undoubtedly throw you under the buss.
Translation: YOU WILL BE BLAMED AND YELLED AT. Yes, it is normal for senior level management to shout at employees in front of the entire company and also in public. This is just unprofessional and a complete lack of respect and basic human decency.
The management is appalling. Apart from being highly inexperienced and disrespectful, there is no structure or rather, it is based on favouritism and their inflated egos, two in particular. It was so messy that the HR lady left soon after she joined, and during my time here, 12 people have left the company in a span of one year (this is only for the Singapore office). The turn over rate is indeed astounding.
Yet, they claim to be the third fastest growing agency in the world. Maybe more like the fastest growing con agency…
If you still have some self-respect and integrity with you, please do not join this company. The last thing anyone needs is to be stuck in this company, to be coerced to do something beyond one’s integrity and professionalism, and finally to struggle to find other opportunities in order to keep one’s sanity intact.
