CrimsonLogic Reviews in Singapore, Singapore Area

Pros

AWS and bonuses are OK
generous parties and trainings
Leaves are OK

Cons

work in a long hour, especially during the project deadline
too many project with lack of resources
lack of technology savvy people in the business and management, they just anyhow accept all project, without considering technical issues.

Pros

Great place to learn about J2EE solutions for the Trade & Logistics domain
Lots of responsibility placed very early on enables you to build a complete overview of all aspects of enterprise systems

Cons

Limited career advancement opportunities
A very looking over the shoulder kind of culture
Bureaucratic Culture

Advice to Senior Management

Remove the underperforming entrenched managers and offer greater opportunities to younger performers

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

* 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

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.