1. Career Opportunities: There is no way up in this company. It's run by people who micromanage, berate, and hold you back. The founders make it a point to remind employees that you work FOR them and not WITH them. Stay away!
2. Compensation & Benefits: Almost laughable salary offered with the expectation of slaving out every day. Salary is late very often (sometimes months), and the company cuts taxes from employees but never pays them.
3. Work/life balance: People don't mind working extra hard/on weekends if they're given something in return - whether monetary benefits, recognition, or more responsibility. Unfortunately, the founders treat employees as dispensable who are fired if they voice a concern. There are some employees (relatives and friends of the founder) who have no KPI's, answer to no one, and come and go as they please.
4. Senior Management: The senior management claim to be serial entrepreneurs whereas, in reality, they're anything but. LinkedIn profiles of the founders are exaggerated and misleading. The companies they founded earlier were all failures (nothing wrong with that), but are never shared in their background story. The founders will go to any length to get things their way - sales employees are constantly taught how to lie in sales meetings, investors are given false updates, product managers are given false job descriptions.
However, NOTHING comes close to the fact that the company publishes job descriptions with the false promise of providing visas for employees. No visa has been issued so far. There have cases of people being deported from the country which is extremely sad for the employee's future. 90% of the staff work on tourist visas. IF YOU'RE READING THIS, are from a different country, and have an offer from UMAI please get written guarantees or your visa issued before coming to Malaysia. It really is not worth it!!!
5. Culture and Values: The culture they aim to build here is that it is ok to lie, cheat or steal as long as you're not caught doing it. By not paying company taxes ex-employees of UMAI could not get other jobs within the country until taxes were paid. This dragged on for months and the only response from the founders was "we're out of money". Every single 4 or 5-star rating out here has been doctored by the founders and published in-house. It is very obvious, please do not fall for it.