Just an honest overall review - Anonymous employee YONDU Employee Review

2.0
28 July 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

•Decent office surroundings and environment. •HMO, Group Life Insurance and Emergency Leaves are given on the first day •Seminars/team-building/payday treat •Fixed weekends off

Cons

•Zero work life balance •Too many cost cuttings - no OT pay, no MS Office, incentive schemes have gradually decreased over the years, some paid/licensed necessary working tools will not be renewed anymore. •Contradicting departmental goals - each departments are competing with one another. Hence, there are too many roadblocks in achieving your individual and team goals. •Unreasonable + extremely strict targets and KPIs - the upper management tries too hard to impress clients even if their demands are impossible to fulfill (they won’t bother to calibrate with the clients - Yes Man indeed). Also, even if you need to go on a vacation/sick leave, your targets and numbers has to be completed regardless (even on Holidays). You also have to accept that you’ll be reprimanded as always for the things you have zero control with. •No proper trainings for new employees - you are expected to master each and everything of your tasks at the onset of your work whether you are experienced or not. •Mediocre salary for internal/HQ-based employees - even though the office is located in BGC, they will pay you below market-rate salary (or less than what you really deserve). On top of that, your salary won’t compensate how difficult and complex your tasks are. •Full of Politics and really heavy on Personal Interests •Emotionally abusive superiors

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YONDU Response
6y
Thank you for taking the time to express your concerns with us. We are saddedened to hear that despite our efforts to promote work-life harmony, you still felt that it wasn't present, and we sincerely apologize for that. Our HR Department recently launched new work life streams, and we hope this will boost our work-life balance initiatives. Feedbacks like yours matter to us, which is why we also recently conducted an Employee Satisfaction Survey, so we know how we can further improve our work environment and employee engagement activities. As for the KRAs and KPIs, while we strive to evolve along the changing times, we see to it that our performance management system remains reasonable. However, we will still look into your concern to make sure our goals are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely. For Yondu's salary scheme, we are working to give every Yondude the best compensation package that they deserve, all factors considered. Rest assured that we strengthening these efforts to ensure that everyone is adequately compensated for their hard work and dedication. We welcome your feedbacks with an open mind, and will use them to provide more value not just for our clients but employees as well. Again, thank you for taking the time to let us know what you think about our company.

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Cons

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YONDU Response
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Thank you so much for taking the time to share your positive feedback! We're delighted to hear about your positive experience at Yondu as an intern. Your review motivates us to continue fostering a positive work environment and striving for excellence. We appreciate your hard work and commitment to our organization.
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19 Jan 2017
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Pros

- Most projects being develop in Yondu are from scratch. - They have a lot of random perks for their employees ex. meriendas after payday, gaming consoles, etc. - You will be exposed to different kinds of technologies. - Office seems nice and well designed. - People are friendly and approchable.

Cons

- You are a project-based employee and being promoted to a regular position is a joke. Believe me. - Appraisal is also a joke too. - Work/Life Balance? Meh. - Their processes are not effective and sometimes violate some of the rules they set especially in developing a project. - High attrition rating. - There are so much politics in the office. - At this point, you should consider looking for another opportunity beside this company. Promise.

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YONDU Response
8y
We apologize for this late response but we want to thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback. We regret to know that your experience with Yondu did not match our intention to make it the better, if not the best place you have ever worked. We are taking your feedback and addressing all the places we missed in delivering not just quality work outputs but also positive employee experience for every YONDUde who had considered Yondu as their career ground. As a result of all your valuable feedback: 1. We have strengthened our performance appraisal process through formal bi-annual checkpoint with a 1-on-1 discussion with immediate supervisor and employee to discuss their performance and development needs. 2. Our project processes hits and misses are now supplemented and addressed respectively through a number of training sessions on project management, Agile (SCRUM Methodology) training, DevCon and process enhancement through employing principles of compliance and information security. 3. Regularization at Yondu is a serious and critical process. We take into account not just performance indicators but also feedback from internal and external clients and behavioral indicators that would make one deserve the spot. 4. Our high attrition rating is attributed to only 2 major factors, resource absorption by client (with our staff augmentation) and the need to increase professional value through job exposure with another industry/company. 5. Work-life balance is essential but we would like to clarify that it can also be isolated and subjective depending on scope. We hold, with high esteem, the well-being of our employees, and we are addressing this issue through concrete manpower review and resource allocation. 6. Office politics can be perceived in different ways by different factors - decision-making, authority, level of opportunities and empowerment. Where do we stand? Just mainly being humane...and that makes us subject to human errors. I hope the above helps you regain that little YONDUde feel in you. Thank you so much!
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