By far the worst career move I made
Pros
- Many of my colleagues, especially in marketing, were easy to work with and they were fun to be around. I was lucky to have worked with several talented individuals during my employment. - RMxxx travel allowance. - Snacks, I guess.
Cons
Where do I even begin...hmm. Let's start at the root of the problem: the boss' (founder) lack of people management skills, enabled by her little band of bootl*ckers. - Instead of having one-on-ones with employees to directly address problems and coming up with solutions (you know, like a good leader would), big boss E has a tendency to badmouth her employees. - HR was complicit in this toxic work environment by enabling the big boss' terrible behaviour towards employees. - The employees were never given an outlet to point out problems with the way things were being managed, but when we did try to address the issues, we were not taken seriously. HR and management would often brush us off. - My skills and expertise were underappreciated and underutilised. Whatever ideas I had were shot down and if there were any that I could do, I was given very limited budget to work with. So it was difficult to show much growth in terms of the work I did. It's safe for me to say that I experienced zero growth during my employment here which was such a shame.