Singapore Technologies Engineering Reviews

Pros

1) Very family environment with colleagues helping me not only at workplace, but also my personal problems, without any returns.
2) Rich overseas opportunities for people like me who like travelling

Cons

1) Extremely low remuneration, which is way below market value
2) Not a competitive environment for achievers who want to stand out from the rest.

Advice to Senior Management

There are far too many reinvention of wheel within ST Engg, which is wasteful and not productive, eating into P&L and hence affecting our bonuses. Because ST Engg compromises of more than 10,000 employees in Singapore, senior management really need to have a good and far foresight and be very attentive to the employees level, to prevent such overheads.

Pros

Undeniably, a well-established company
Good stepping stone

Cons

Little room for promotion for non-engineering positions
Salary offered is below market rate + long working hours

Pros

It is suitable for those who would like a stable job. Situated in western region of Singapore. Suit
Those staying around there.

Cons

Can be boring for the nature of it's trade. Not for those who stay in east and is not willing to travel.

Pros

Stable 8 to 5 job

Cons

Limited career opportunities and advancement

Pros

High starting pay for fresh grads

Cons

Work not appreciated by management
Different HR practices across the different ST companies (e.g. InfoSoft getting C++ allowance, while T&S does not)
Very inflexible work hours

Advice to Senior Management

Treat employees better
Do not do false advertising on the job scope

Pros

A place for people who only wants to get by day by day without putting in effort. Relatively good bonus payout every year even if company don't seem like making money. They will never sack locals.

Cons

Makes individual feels comfortable with mediocre output in the long run . No challenge. Always putting and pushing blames to others when things goes awry. No sense of responsibility and pride from everyone, including the management

Advice to Senior Management

Implement better working culture, emphasize on training and development for employees. Streamline management team, encourage competition among employees. Implement better reward system

Pros

The working environment is pretty casual and employees leaves on time. It is a good place for family life with very little overtimes in Technical Services Department.

Cons

The management is old school and practices top-down management. There is little communication other than instructions to get the tasks done.

Advice to Senior Management

Embrace newer leadership styles which is more apt for this current generation of engineers and employees. Staff morale is very important in affecting the energy at work.

Pros

lots of teamwork , friendly people

Cons

very top down management . long working hours. salary below industry standard

Advice to Senior Management

inject some creativity

Pros

Pay is quite high. They are quite slack on interns and they do not demand you to wear office wear even.

Cons

There is too much politics. The work is boring, it's all searching from online engines and copy and pasting to your report.

Advice to Senior Management

More practical work can be given to interns, or there can be field trips or even some rotation for interns to get a feel of the different companies under ST Kinetics.

Pros

work and life balance, that's it.

Cons

bad performance review system, at least to me.

Advice to Senior Management

too business oriented.