A frog in a well - Manager Essence Employee Review

1.0
Oct 14, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Its all about the name Google but after a while, it becomes... "ok so what?"

Cons

1. Lip service - one very good example is during the lockdown. At the start of the circuit breaker, management said "new norm, lets be sensitive to everyone's situation at home" "lets not have lunch meetings" but meetings still happens. And when you bring this up to the leadership during town halls, reply is "yea. i am guilty of that too and i should stop it". Look, im not against having lunch meetings. I know its inevitable sometimes, but not 3 times a week? How about actually stop saying and start doing that? 2. Promotions - This is a place where its not what you do that matters, but who sees your work that matters. Fold a paper plane, color it, pour sparkly glitter over it AND THEN do a presentation with animation and tell everyone how colorful your paper plane is, that will give you a definite priority promotion over someone who actually crafts the plane out of pure hard work and made sure its aerodynamic. 3. Politically correctness - Town halls are always like the 9pm show where you see how politicians give non answers.

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