RGE reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(165 total reviews)
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Sukanto Tanoto

95% approve of CEO

86% positive business outlook

RGE has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 165 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The RGE employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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165 reviews
1.0
Dec 27, 2021

Avoid at all cost

Recommend
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Pros

Great location (only if you're working at the main Singapore office)

Cons

Long working hours in addition to being a secretary for everybody ranked higher than you, often contacted in the early mornings, late evenings and weekends to provide info they can easily find themselves Heavy workload, easily double that of employees in other companies, in addition to covering job scope of multiple departments and management want employees to be grateful for the exposure - also if you are not favored by your managers, you are expected to work from home even when on MC or leave Chain of command extremely complicated, management not able to make any decisions, higher management have no issues making false promises to employees Extremely uncompetitive pay package especially for employees not in management position, all whilst higher management are boasting about record high output and prices and delaying pay adjustments HR is just there to make the company look better, exit interviews are laughable HR should just complete on behalf of employees since they don't intend to put anything bad about the company down anyways My advice to potential employees: Check on the company's employee work history to verify the 4 or 5 star reviews, very unlikely to find non-managerial employees staying more then 3 yrs If you still decide to join, make sure your starting salary is enough for you to trade your rest, mental health and dignity for, since the increment is laughable as well

1.0
Mar 21, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Office location is located at CBD?

Cons

1. Since it is a family business, decisions are ALWAYS made top-down with no room for discussion or negotiation. Whatever or however the family wants it to be, it must be. 2. They are super secretive about everything, hence there are lots of hidden information that are actually required for your work to be done. You won't know what you don't know, and hence you'd always end up in a situation where you have to firefight and make changes at the last min. 3. There is no respect to processes and timelines that were put in place, because anything can be randomly and suddenly urgent for no specific reasons. 4. There is absolutely zero autonomy as to how you should or want to get the job done. They just want you to do it the way they want it to be, and also just do as they say so. 5. There is fake democracy and it is always like a communist society here. "No" is not accepted as an answer, and your opinions were only asked for the sake of asking. Top down decisions override any other POVs. 6. Work processes are unnecessarily redundant, and because information are highly secretive, you'll need to go through many layers of own PI work in order to find out something as simple as ABC. 7. Systems are "in place" but not in use. They are there just because other companies are using it, but these systems are making people's life miserable. 8. Benefits are miserably minimal, and the company doesn't care about the employees. During difficult times (pandemic), it's sad to realise how little they care for employees and their welfare. While we see other companies giving out appreciation/caring gifts such as vouchers, cakes, credits for shopping at Guardian/Watson etc, this company doesn't even bear to give out 1 or 2 surgical masks to protect its employees when they actually have boxes and boxes in stock.

3.0
Mar 19, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Alot of opportunities for people who want to be challenged and grow - People who are flexible and open minded will thrive in this fast paced environment - Company is growing alot in terms of investments globally - There are opportunities to be exposed to the very senior management and family members and able to see one's work make a direct impact to the bottom line - Opportunities are there to manage entire business units (local and overseas) for those who prove themselves

Cons

- Very unique and secretive senior management, at times bothering on illogical (i guess Indo families can be really secretive but it's up to them how to run things) - Leave benefits are terrible. Only 14 days for everyone including senior management (but honestly you wouldn't have time to take 14 days even. hurhur...) - Medical and dental benefits for oneself and family are acceptable though. - Most or all the time, there's too much workload per person whether junior or senior. Not enough bandwidth to focus and go deep on core strategies and responsibilities. (but if you can thrive here, any other company will be a walk in the park. You will be trained under grueling conditions to deliver more and outlast the rest cause many quit.) - The turnover rate here, not surprisingly, is very high! Many newcomers don't last beyond few years - some even quit less than 1 year! If you can't make the cut, you will quit soon. If you are really good and can thrive, likely you will be poached soon for much bigger packages elsewhere. - Overall negative comments on Glassdoor here... hurhur - Interview candidates keep asking about whether Glassdoor comments are real (I'm running out of politically correct answers already.) - Very very hard to attract the A-star caliber candidates cause of earlier comment (nuff said!)

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