Toxic culture initiated by longer staying employees - Associate Secretlab Employee Review

2.0
Oct 22, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Staff benefits are definitely top notch.

Cons

I had a disappointing experience working in Secretlab. The management was inadequate, and employee’s concerns were often ignored. I’ve seen a lack of mediation in employee issues, which sometimes resulted in unfair terminations. The HR department was unprofessional and failed to maintain confidentiality, as whistleblowing incident got exposed. Some employee gets too much authority due to having a close relationship with management. Being involved in department employment matters and interviewing of new comers when employee is not of a certain ranking. Watching videos in office and OT to show that they are very hardworking. OT culture is very strong here because you’ll be deemed as lazy and a lousy employee if you do not OT. Salary / Increment matters were poorly handled, with managers blaming HR, and HR appearing clueless. Salary of colleagues was also very transparent across the favored employee. Additionally, some employees do receive special privileges, such as the ability to work from home whenever they pleased and excessive spending on meals with their close relationship with the upper management. Overall, my time at Secretlab was marred by these issues.

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1.0
May 21, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- good pantry and lunch provided

Cons

Honestly, a lot. It's definitely a big case of blind leading the blind. A lot of passing the blame around, no one really knowing what they were doing, the only thing the leads do well is blow smoke/wayang. I was specifically in content creation in marketing and the leads there had no idea what they were doing, but when this issue would surface, they would just push the blame elsewhere. There was one good lead who knew what he was doing technically and visually, but he was a terrible person manager. We would have 1-to-1s and I would voice issues, both personal and in our team, of which would get ignored all the time. He didn't know how to lead at all. The product is great, every lead there is just riding the wave of the quality, good job the product team is good at what they do. Very inefficient and not a warm workplace. The pawns work like crazy whilst the leads reap the benefits. Without a doubt, some of the worst leads I've ever worked under.

4.0
May 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Hardly any politics, employees have a shared understanding of the vision and direction. Work has global reach, and teams are lean and autonomous. Specialists and individual contributors are more valued, middle-management is kept to a minimum.

Cons

Fast paced, demanding culture, Requires a lot of discipline for self initiated projects for personal and organizational growth.

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