SWIFT reviews

3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(105 total reviews)
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Javier Pérez-Tasso

56% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

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3.0
Apr 15, 2017

Good

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Pros

Responsive, good communication, result oriented & easily adapt to change.

Cons

Somehow or rather not good in reject ideas

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SWIFT Response
9y
Thanks for your review. It’s great that you’re happy with the internal communication and adaptability of SWIFT. We are continuously looking for ways to stay agile as a company and as an employer and are glad to hear this has been reflected in your experience.
3.0
Mar 17, 2017

Just read the details

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Team with more mature product tend to have better and stable management. Medical benefit. Office has good facility like dual 24“-27“ monitors in most of the table. At minimum 1 monitor, you can connect your laptop to that monitor. Locker so you no need to bring your laptop home. Meeting room with good video conference equipment. In most cases are above average compared with others local IT company offices. HR management put effort in making the workplace better, especially for new office buildings later I think.

Cons

The quality of management are not spread equally. Some manager have self centered mentality, and the concept in their mind contradict a value like adapt to customer need. And many more different employee with different problem in their characters. Promotion sometimes given by your luck, if you start as a single fighter in a team which just built recently, you will get faster promotion. Salary just below or average. There will always a time when reality defeat the "life balance" and "we are community not profit oriented" propaganda. When people choose and you lose the talent. The quality of the new hired people are not consistent and sometimes misleading. Seniority for new hire seems like more because of the age instead of the knowledge. New hired senior dev but still do the same simple coding mistake as fresh grad, and lack of linux proficiency, I know everything can be catch up later, but come on, this is senior lvl, we expect senior to teach middle lvl in common knowledge like linux, not the opposite. Also got middle level dev but no Linux proficiency, don't know how to reduce redundancy in conditional statement by just separate it into one simple method, and don't even expect them to think about generics, come on, don't tell me you give this guys the same starting salary with the other new hired middle lvl with good knowledge in linux, jenkins and so on. Even worse, some of them have no passion to get better independently, really like the characters of people who just come to work and done. And people with same middle lvl but have better quality always end up busy helping/supporting/lift up them. Imagine you middle lvl dev busy sitting beside senior lvl dev, helping him/her find the problem in his/her code, while he/she close her/his eye and sleep. The quality of the interviewer are not equal I think. Company provides a lot of training, most of the time are soft skill, some of them are useless training, especially for technical guys.

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SWIFT Response
9y
Thank you for taking the time to provide such detailed feedback, it is greatly appreciated. We’re glad that you benefited from the resources available and working environment of our KL office. Your feedback will be shared and taken on board as we continue to build and develop our APAC offices and ensure that the teams’ requirements are handled efficiently and effectively.
4.0
Oct 30, 2015

Good work-life balance, slow career

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good work-life balance, great company culture, high-quality people

Cons

Slow career, limited growth opportunities especially for young hires, average age 40-50s, best positions taken by those who are with company for 20 years

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