Infocomm Media Development Authority Reviews

Work life balance is non-existent. Alignment: Directors/ACEs not in sync with CE (who practically speaks a different language), making it hard to guess what the strategy and deliverables are. Situations where you have spent the 20th weekend in a row re-doing ppt to realise that yet again this is not what CE wants, not uncommon. No joke. Just demotivating and makes you question why you bother.

IMDA is facing a brain drain with high turnover and inability to attract talent, because of many issues. CEO and senior directors have different wavelengths, and directors don't get what he wants. So plans and policies can go through multiple rounds of amendments for over more than a year and still not get cleared by CEO or die because it's too late and the world has moved on. If this was a commercial company it would have collapsed a long time ago. It's the poor minion at the bottom who has to play guessing games at what the whole string of bosses want, making the multiple amendments each time on how to present the very same material, because it's easy for bosses to just flap their lips and make staff do the amendments, than to take the time to think and work through what exactly they want. This is terribly demoralising for staff.... a lot of wasted work and time, wasted rushing, you feel like you have achieved nothing, you have nothing to put on the appraisal form and CV, which affects increment, bonus, promotion chances. Work becomes meaningless, leaders and bosses are uninspiring. HR policies are overly rigid and a disservice to the organisation. Staff are NOT appreciated and NOT compensated fairly for their work, compensation is not at all competitive, career progression/development is non-existent if you have the bad luck of joining a team where the director prefers to bring in people from outside (and worse still if the person doesn't even have any relevant domain expertise) than build people up from within --- there are cases of empire building and favouritism. Like another person said, don't even go near with a stick.