CrimsonLogic Reviews

Pros

-got ferry to go to office in morning
-got bonus and AWS
-got 650 subsidiary claim per year
-working environment is quiet and quite good

Cons

-long working hours and sometimes even expect to come back on both Sat & Sun
-earliest time you can knock off from office is 7pm (daily)
-managers don't know anything about technical and only know how to stress out his peers
-always time is critical and always require to work long hours
-lots of work to do when no resource is there
-During SIT/UAT time u'll get scolding emails like "why again?" without proper consideration of not enough time given.

Advice to Senior Management

Instead of looking for profit to the company, management should try to create a work-life balanced life for employees

Pros

Good learning ground in IT, great place to start IT career, good opportunities to work in various overseas projects, great place to jump-start career.

Cons

Hierarchical management, tedious manual documentation procedures, lack of personal communication from higher management, constantly high turnover rate, uncompetitive monetary compensation

Advice to Senior Management

Being a IT company, CrimsonLogic should place emphasis in development of the technical skills and craft of its employees which will result in the delivery of high quality works that customers will appreciate and recognize. Too many counter-productive QMS procedures which takes up employees' time are in place. Continuing to turn a blind eye to the difficulties and dissatisfaction that employees face will continue the current high turnover trend and does not bode well for the company.

Pros

* Friendly colleagues
* Growing company, opportunities for growth is there
* Benefit package quite good (getting +1 day annual leave for every year you work, capped at 18 days or 21 days for managers and above, $600 flexible subsidy claim including holidays, air ticket, etc)
* Overseas travel / posting opportunities, especially if you're in sales / presales
* Close to nature (Science Park 2)
* Good food

Cons

* Salary not competitive
* A lot of red tape
* Employees of average standard
* Hiring process very primitive, which results in a lot of people unqualified for the job
* Stressful if you're involved in project running behind deadline
* No structured way to recognize dedicated employees, no talent development programme
* Close and uninnovative culture

Advice to Senior Management

Concentrate on people / culture / talent development, please do not be too profit-driven; should think for long term growth (growing the human capital / company culture, etc.) rather than short-term growth (profits + projects). CrimsonLogic has a good reputation as a software service provider, but a not-so-good reputation as an employer. This resulted in a lot of bright people leaving the company.

Pros

Science park location, free shuttle bus to food places, nus food canteen, and other food places. Nice clean environment peaceful

Cons

Tough working hours, one color through out the workforce, cheap labour, boring nearby canteens, limited pantry food and drinking options

Advice to Senior Management

should offer more feed back opportunities and options to the work force, and increase diversity in the work force and expand

Pros

It has a reputation in singapore and a growing reputation in other parts of the world where its trying to expand. Other local recruiters would have heard about it.

Cons

The company is government linked and has been protected for a while. So it has not learnt to be very competitive; the middle management is not the best on the market as a result. There is a certain lack of creativity and overall the level of engineering is not very impressive.

Advice to Senior Management

Dont hesitate to let some people go to refresh the middle management level. Red tape can grind inovative efforts to a near halt; lets get some smarter people to look at our internal processes such as quality management.