unhealthy culture in management - Trader Olam Employee Review

1.0
Nov 30, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Pay and some really nice people within the employees (bottom line)

Cons

Company is based in Singapore, it's a culture of order and obey, servitude. Nobody dares speak up out of fear either of being let go, and fear of managers hostility. Top management is not merit based but friends and connections from India. Top management is clueless, but only orders and demands. This is passed along the management chain up to US managers and below and everybody just obeys as they want to keep their job or not have problems. Ultimately the most affected is the bottom line worker. Every manager's job seems to be just protecting their relation with their upper management, therefore nobody listens to employees or cares about anything. If they are demanded something, they push this unto employees no matter how overworked they already are. HR doesn't care and is in servitude to this entire structure. Many of the top executives based in Singapore are friends or people that know each other outside of work for a long time, so that relationship weighs more than what any US manager or HR could say.

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Cons

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Cons

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