Let me preface this - All the negative reviews here are true. No one will spend time coming here to write negative reviews for fun.
1. Chinese culture - Top down, zero questions asked
- Upper management decides everything, whether it’s actually good for the users or the business.
- No questions are to be asked regarding decisions, you are to be a yes man.
- If you do challenge them, be aware that you will be blacklisted and be seen as not a “team player”.
- Most of the middle management/leaders are clueless about what’s happening on the ground and also don’t know what it’s like to be the ones executing.
- Basically you are a modern slave that has to dedicate your life to the company 24/7.
2. Overworked - especially for juniors TAKE NOTE
- Almost akin to 996 culture.
- Zero respect for time out of office/work - as long as you are needed, they will call you, until you pick up. (They will call you when you are on leave too.)
- Depending on your work, you might have to stay up late to finish your tasks, which is not worth it by the way, they ain’t paying you more for overtime.
- No pay increment UNLESS YOU ARE PROMOTED.
3. Random layoffs - happens every half a year by the way
- Company cuts 10% - 20% every half a year while they hire throughout the year, a very UNETHICAL HR strategy to recycle people, treating employees just like a number.
- Layoffs happen without any specific reason - whether in good times or bad times, and there are no performance improvement plans in place.
- Zero mentorship for juniors by the way, and you have to pick up everything yourself or you are next in line to be cut.
4.Heavy Politics
- A lot of people at the top are early joiners of the company or are very good at talking, not because they are actually good.
- You basically have to bootlick your way up and not based on your merit.
- A lot of internal “fighting” where teams are just trying to make sure their work doesn’t get stolen by other teams.
TLDR - Avoid at all cost to save your sanity. Also, you have to read and speak Chinese 90% of your time here - they’ve been saying they want to become globalised for years but don’t believe them. Some things never and would not change.
