Cons:
- Shift work (See the pros)
- No work-life balance. They may ask you to come back on your day offs, or reject your requests for certain days you want to take off (because of the severe lack of staff due to extremely high turnover rates).
- Non inclusive. Their attempt to translate their system/documents into English is very poor and half hearted. Anyone important/high up ONLY speaks and write in Chinese and fully expects you to do so, so if you intend to climb the ladder (provided you have that resilience) you'd need to be good at Chinese. This also means anything important is, by default, in Chinese.
--> As above, communication between colleagues are usually in Chinese.
- From speaking to other colleagues, career progression here requires you to be inhumanely perfect, or have insane resilience to endure being treated like you don't have a personal life outside of work.
- Their performance evaluation targets are extremely unrealistic and punishing. Should you make a mistake, they focus on blaming you and punishing your performance evaluation.
- The culture here seems to be quite toxic. They expect perfection (and beyond) from you, any less and they treat you like you deserve to be thrown in the trash. They will make you question your self worth and overwork you, and it still won't be good enough. The problem will always be *you*, because you're not devoting your entire soul and life to this company.
- Based on the fresh grad employment survey, the pay they've offered (to me at least) is below average. Expected from a first job, but be prepared. For reference: It was a few hundred dollars below the 25th percentile.
- HR will entice you to join this company with sweet half truths. Don't fall for it. The turnover rate in this company is high for a good reason. 80% of the employees here (at this time of writing) have been employed for less than 1 year. The remaining 20% are mostly non-locals who've dedicated themselves like sentinels and would likely never leave or change their ways.
- It was never communicated or put into our contract that we weren't allowed to claim OT pay. However this rule is enforced, and you're only allowed to claim OT leave (leave-in-lieu). BUT the thing that makes no sense... is that you can only claim that if you OT for 2 hours minimum. So if you have to stay behind for an additional hour, that doesn't count as OT no matter how many days you're forced to do it.
TLDR:
High workload for very little pay and compensation.
