Pros
Very good location Nice office Enough snacks & drinks at the pantry Generous training opportunities Good flexible benefits and amount of leaves
Cons
Workload. One person does a lot of work as colleagues have either left, not renewed or were replaced (errr, rather didn't bother finding a replacement). Then staffs got blamed for not having a proper time management...yeah right. Resources. Yes, teams are understaffed as people leave one after another. Go figure. Management - they only want to meet the deadlines and deliver the projects...at the expense of their staffs. Worked everyday (12++ hours) including weekends for almost a month, and several weekends later, but wasn't offered even a single off-in-lieu. Pity. Pay & appraisals. Contrary to most reviewers here, I don't really consider this to GIC's advantage...unless you haven't worked with other financial institutions or I just didn't get a good offer. Then there's also the recent changes with the compensation package that gives you a higher chance (1/3) of getting 0 bonus. Oh well. Superiority complex. I thought that there's an invisible wall when staffs at lower grade interact with those higher than them. I surely felt this when I was new. In addition, vendors are treated differently here and there is clearly a segregation. Is this a norm? Work-life balance. I mean, there's little to no work-life balance to our team. I honestly regret working at GIC. Too toxic environment. I should have taken the warning signs carefully and left earlier. Perhaps, if I did, my efforts would have been appreciated.
