Pros
- Flexible working hours and WFH days - Peers (fellow engineers and QA) are friendly and will help willingly if asked - Complex product and specifications means that you need to put in more effort to validate that you are building the correct thing which is a good opportunity to learn and grow
Cons
- Upper management is out of touch with the dev team - At the time of writing, the company has lost a large chunk of good senior employees due to them seemingly unfairly letting go of a star employee - there has been no attempts by upper management to address the headcount loss since then. Morale has been severly affected in the Singapore team. - Upper management seems to be more interested in setting up a new office and hiring talent abroad, rather than focus on retention in the few remaining staff in Singapore. - Poor communication from upper management and middle management - Confusion between product and dev because the problem space and requirements are very niche - Certain key upper and middle managers (manager/director/principal level and above) are prone to micromanage or are unreasonable - Management does not care about your coping, welfare or mental health - they seem more interested in trying to add new "initiatives" and workflows that only take up time and effort from devs to do their job - Additionally instead of looking to hire more dev and QA to handle the increasing workload due to reduced manpower, management seems more interested in hiring managers (often times with poor work attitude) that make work harder for the dev team