Micromanaging Startup that acts like established MNC - Systems QA Engineer Shopee Employee Review

1.0
6 Oct 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-2 massage per month -free dinner if you work late -free gym in office -napping pods -nice office Above pros are all not personally experienced due to covid-19 but the benefit is there. -Great child birth sponsorship ($8000)

Cons

- Pathetic spouse and child coverage for insurance. - Optical and dental benefits as good as none. Have the facade of an established MNC due to all the funding they get but they are really just a start up. Micromanaging like crazy, enforce that you must turn on camera for video calls, even for those calls with crazy amount of attendees (50>). Their excuse is to give more "office-like" feel but really, it's just to make sure you are in front of your pc during the entire course of meeting (1-2 hours). On the topic of meeting, you will be required to attend irrelevant meeting that takes up your work time then expect you to do unpaid OT to finish up your task. Good name on resume but bad experience on work life. They may offer a higher salary, especially for fresh grads but that is just to trap you in because other companies won't pay as high. Once you're trap, they can overwork you however they want and you can't do anything about it because you can't find another job that pays as well due to your lack of experience. You can't leave unless you take a pay cut, but if you are experienced hire then it's not as bad. Think carefully before joining.

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Shopee Response
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Hi former employee, Thank you for dropping us your feedback and review based on your experience with Shopee. Would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your contribution so far with Shopee and we are saddened to see you leave. In Shopee , we thrive to provide you with fruitful development throughout your career with us. One of the key things we are very focused on is the well being of our employees and hence, its reflected on how we try to ensure a conducive working environment for all our employees to maintain a balance between work and personal life. We will look into this matter and continuously improve our employee welfare and benefit. Into a more heavier topic - we would like to clarify; during COVID19 situation, all of us are required to adjust to a new way of working such as working remotely and online meetings. Hence, Shopee came up with our work-from-home guideline to ensure effective working is still maintained between you and your team. One of the key examples is making video available during meetings. This is believed to ensure all team members are engaged throughout the meeting to ensure effective meeting outcome can be achieved; regardless the meeting size is 10 or >10 pax. Hope you understand. On another note- we are keen to hear from you further because we believe in valuable lessons of learning from the feedback. If you are open to share, I am inviting you to drop an email to us at at [hr.experience@shopee.com] and hopefully we can improve better on our employee engagement, welfare and benefit. Hope to hear from you soon!

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