Corporate Services - Anonymous employee GIC Employee Review

3.0
Aug 14, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice office and welfare. Transformation mode. Intelligent, gentrified staff who are mostly friendly and competent. Great place for early entrants and retirement. Former chief Lim Siong Guan is mostly misunderstood but highly visionary and honest change agent. High level of job security and fair compensation reviews. V well networked. Good brand equity and business ethics. Lots if opportunities for investment guys.

Cons

Brown noser, patronising culture. Political and where people all come from similar group thinker, high performing educ and work backgrounds and are out of sync with realities of society at large. I cannot get over how some got appointed MDs- it's a place that is fairly sympathetic and tolerant to underperformers but to get to the top, you have to be seen and liked by the right power cliques.

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5.0
Jun 7, 2026
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Great company to work for. They pay above fairly, people are friendly and benefits / employee life - work balance is amazing.

Cons

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1.0
Jul 6, 2026
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Pros

Good vision, good talent (under bad management), market rate compensation

Cons

​Incompetent Leadership: Constant, chaotic reorganizations driven by new senior leads looking for short-term wins rather than sustainable engineering. ​Tone-Deaf Management: Townhalls are heavily curated to ignore genuine feedback regarding burnout and management debt. ​The "Silent Layoff" Strategy: Mass PIPs and aggressive performance grading are being used to quietly trim headcount, destroying team morale. ​Inefficient Ecosystem: Paralyzing security and risk processes block execution at every turn, while engineering teams are expected to run at 200%+ capacity. ​Inefficient HR: A heavy layer of senior HR personnel who offer zero practical guidance, zero empathy, and zero worker protection.

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