don’t even bother thinking thrice about joining, just don’t - Recensione dipendente - Strategist presso AsiaOne

1. To start off, you don’t get paid well. CEO says that you are not allowed to share your pay to others and that is because he pays everyone differently despite holding the same title. He claims that the salary is competitive, but I’m pretty sure you can get paid way more somewhere else. When it’s time for performance appraisal, he drags it and says whatever that fits his narrative. But have anyone ever heard of discussing pay raise directly with the CEO? They do it here at AsiaOne because what is the HR doing? Nobody knows, it’s a question even the staffs ask. Your performance appraisal, you can never get an A or it’s even hard to get a B. Why? They tell you ‘there is always room for improvement’ but they don’t appreciate your effort enough or the things you have done because to them, there is always something to improve. Don’t even bother asking about bonus, it’s pathetic. 2. CEO claims that there is no favouritism in the company but anyone with eyes can see it. Incompetent people are kept in the company which results in their team members needing to do their work for them. If you are a good bootlicker to the CEO, he will love you. He somehow shows favouritism to underperforming/ incompetent employees. You might even get a promotion if you want to change department. 3. There is literally no identity as to what AsiaOne is. Claims to be a news agency but expects employees to do lifestyle content, hop on any gossip news or just anything trending. However, once there is anything related to Singapore government, they expect you to drop everything and only focus on that. 4. The CEO constantly put down other publications and act as though AsiaOne is the best. Someone needs to bring him back to reality and show that literally not even half the population knows AsiaOne. All we do is suck up to the government. He openly ‘trashtalks’ media agencies and says how we are better. But in reality, they get better traction than AsiaOne. 5. Gossip in the company? The CEO does it himself but tells you he can’t tolerate anyone that does it. He puts down incompetent employees knowing that they are essentially causing burden to the team but does nothing to it and says ‘they are still doing the day to day’. That is because that is the bare minimum. But he expects other team members to pick up the slack of all these incompetent people. 6. ‘Work family’ , ‘home away from home’. If any organisation ever say this to you, RUN. Don’t even bother joining. The CEO always brings these in to tell employees that AsiaOne is the place to be (ew, we all know). Every soul in the company cringes at it but nobody calls him out because they can use this to their advantage to climb up the social ladder. 7. In conclusion, just don’t bother joining this company unless you are so desperate for a job and needs a stepping stone.