Growing Pains but rewarding - Engineering Lead Grab Employee Review

5.0
Oct 4, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. Potential valuable stock awards 2. Leader in the ride hailing industry in South East Asia. And other growing areas in addition to ride hailing like Food, Express Delivery, Groceries and many more to come. 3. Unicorn startup with a huge market shares. 4. Work that I am doing is directly impacting our customers. 5. Above average base pay for the area. 6. Work-time is flexible, more task driven. 7. Despite being in US, we have CTO, CEO etc visiting quite often from Singapore.

Cons

1. Some projects are cross-sites (although not common) and those requires collaboration across time-zones. 2. Company grew too fast, getting things to market fast is important to grab market shares. Thereby accumulating tech debts. 3. Moving from startup to established company often require some amount of process. Need to define those process.

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Grab Response
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Hey there, thank you for the 5-star rating and review. We really appreciate that you took the time and listed out what you feel are our top qualities. At Grab, we want to impact and improve the lives of our users across Southeast Asia. We understand that timezone differences are a bane to those who are not in Asia. In order to alleviate this, we have informed project leads to keep this in mind when planning meetings. This allows all of us to be more aware and respectful of each other's time. We understand that many think we have grown too fast over the last few years and processes are in disarray. Rest assured, we are taking steps to fix this problem and putting an SOP in place.

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