Pros
- Clear career path, if you kick start as ODP Graduates or Pro Hire. Will it be achievable? yep, later on, when you grow old enough and has licked every *** on the planet. It will come, for sure. - Chance to growth your leadership skill with some "challenge" given to you. - Chance to receive one of the best Master's scholarship benefits in Indonesia, it comes with great cost tho. 2n + 1years of serving time to Bank Mandiri after graduates, with not so significant increment employee benefits increment when you come back to Indonesia. - Great friends, yep, because you go through so much blood and tears while working there, you might find yourself some lifetime friends. - Annual bonus performance, based on subjective achievement. Oops, sorry, objectively i mean. Although, this bonus, as big as it comes, even with your "Superior" performance level, your annual total compensation (included annual bonus, leave bonus, THR, etc) still under the market. Not talking comparing the benefits with Tech Companies, even with the competitor, it's still under. Especially ODP IT. But you got the bonus, so be grateful for it, right? - What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, after all that you've been through here, wherever you work would feels like walking in the park - Great brand exposure, for career jump. - This is honest, wide knowledge that would makes you understand multiple industry business flow. Very expensive knowledge.
Cons
> Subjective performance measurement is real. No licking means you dig your own grave. > Yes Sir attitude is killing it, better wear your best armor and helmet when you present your work with "No" or "Unable" conclusions, you might get machine gunned. > Gas lighting at it's finest, whatever you tell to your line manager, the answers will be the same, either it's the employee that not strong enough to endure this workplace, or the best one is "what do you think regarding this". > Taichi's Master everywhere, everyone basically want higher salary with as minimum work as possible, it's everyone dream yet anyone but their self that has to suffer. > Your lifetime experiences and devotion will mean nothing (if and only if you come from ODP), because the annual increment is soooo great, so great that fried chicken store near my home has a better price increment than my salary increment. It got better with so many pro hires coming in, with much lower capabilities than current employee, but they got more than 50% benefits than the current employee who has better capabilities and same years of experience. If the current employees want to get the same amount as the pro hires, they have to spend 8 more years of annual salary increment while that pro hires got no increment at all. > Work Life Balance, sure thing. You know the triangle of life (time, money, energy) right? the problem is, we get 0 of that. We got no time, no money, no energy, thanks to unlimited request coming in with so tight deadline and no overtime fee. Well, there are overtime fees, 25k IDR per day. Yep, you read it right. per Day, even for the weekend. Oh, do i mention working on the weekend?yep, still, 25k. While overtime will cost you more than that for snacking and stress eating and doing some regretful things to make you feels alive. > Like i said before, everyone will becomes leaders, eventually. Doesn't matter if they are competent enough, or not. Duh > Everyone has their own agenda and politics, typical old money companies. no surprise there > Toxic culture, not at all groups tho, but still.