Vantaggi
Strong capital base, never short of capital due to its parentage. Overall, a professionally managed company and process driven. Good training platform for junior staff if one wants to learn how corporate process look like in an extreme sense
Svantaggi
Generally a managed by a "dictator". All staff generally try to please just one person. The top guy allows, does not discourage or to a certain extend, encourages political fights among the different persons. A few members of the senior management at the HQ level that covers functions for the entire group across the world are known to create troubles for everyone. Rather than finding solutions, they generally either identify things that aren't so-called perfect (could come from local regulatory problems or different business view) and claim the local teams to be idiots, or make decision solely based on their experience without considering local constraints. They simply don't listen. Culture generally does not encourage staff to help each other out. Each staff should take sole responsibility of its project no matter how complicate it is. Company does not care about whether the right resources are put in place to support you. Incompetent leader in certain country brought in to solve problems but ultimately enlarged the problems with no visible solutions HR team works under a mission to cut costs, rather than maximizing staff's utility level with the resources they have. When negotiation for employment terms, HR is under a mentality that "if you don't ask, I won't give". Idiotic travel policy. Personal trip cannot be mixed with business trip. For instance, if one planned a personal trip to, say, London in 2 weeks and happen to have a last minute biz trip came up there for 2 weeks. One is required to come back (say, Singapore, the HQ), and then go to the personal trip on a plane ticket of its own. I.e., for no reason, that person need to rush back from London just to get on a flight that is personally purchased for his vacation purpose.