Don't Stay Here for you Will Regret It - IS Executive SAINS Employee Review

1.0
Feb 6, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You normally have a month bonus at least unless someone really hates you. Some department heads are willing to look the other way when you needed to leave the office during office hours to do your personal tasks. How much you can do this and to what extent will be based on your relationship with the manager. Some may even get to leave the office premises for half day without even applying for any leave. Some can head home after an on-site meeting and call it a day even though it's far from 5pm yet. You can expect some courses they might organise for you to attend from time to time although how relevant is the course is not always the point.

Cons

Not consider a very good company. Too many old time managers who have become largely irrelevant today still hold on to their post and refuse to give way to younger generation. A company that practice hard dictatorship rules that while everyone else must do donkey work, a select few can sit back and lipsync to what's been done by others. Select few people will always be in the shuffling list for managerial posts and grade promotion while the rest can just "wait long long" until kingdom come. When things don't work right, they try to frame you up and threaten you to resign. When things work right, they said it's thanks to the excellence of the CEO, not you. The HR has been pretty amazing at keeping their carpet clean. Whenever a problem or concerns is voiced, they hide it under the carpet and side with the managers instead. In essence your manager can accuse anything he likes about you and the HR will not questions about it and side with your manager. The managers conveniently absent themselves when problems happen and miraculously appear whenever the situation calms down. Managers are here to only to put on a show and reap the fruit not to do much else. In actuality they are acting what Englishmen calls Little Napoleons.

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1.0
Mar 6, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Actually the only good thing here is the benefits. If you want a house loan or car loan with staff rates in Sarawak then this is the place. Salary is always on time and you get all the medical and dental coverage. If you just want a stable life and you don't care about your career growing or being happy at work, then you will like it here.

Cons

Management is very old school and they don't want to take responsibility when things go wrong. If there is a problem they will always look for someone at the bottom to blame instead of fixing the issue. They say they use Agile but it is just a lie. It is actually just Waterfall broken into weeks so they can micromanage you more. Everything is top-down and you have no say in anything. ​The environment is not professional or comfortable at all. The office is always freezing cold and the chairs are not ergonomic so your back will hurt. They are always trying to cut costs on basic things you need for work. If you want to study or get a certificate you usually have to pay for it yourself because they won't help unless it is 100% for the company's value only. They are obsessed with KPI but the metrics are mostly about your work hours and sitting at your desk. If your division has bad leadership, you will suffer the most and they will even try to push you out if you feel depressed or burnt out because of their own bad planning.

2.0
Mar 24, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good benefits and exposure for government projects

Cons

Lack of guidance and workload consistently unsustainable.

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