Poor HR Practices Overshadow Any Positives - Anonymous employee Shoalter Automation Employee Review

Year end bonus despite business is bad.

Unpleasant working atmosphere, cannot find worse HR and management. Very bad communication between management and staff. HR never show support to staff, but worse is extremely rude and arrogant attitude, and always not at office. Policies and workflows are messy and inconsistent. Management never listen to staff genuinely but pretend democratic. Unrealistic time schedule to work, expect staff to work overtime and reply messages after working hours or during weekend or holiday. Unfair treatment to different ranks / teams staff. No follow up action even staff complained and lack of transparency. No consideration for staff career path.

- Friendly local colleagues. - If you want to experience how far a company can push poor management, underpayment, and technical chaos, this is the place.

- Salaries are deliberately set up to 70% below market value, with minimal benefits. - Management philosophy is absurd: effort is viewed as incompetence. - Treated like outsourced labor by a foreign parent company; all policies dictated remotely without regard for local circumstances. - Work-from-home flexibility revoked arbitrarily, with flimsy excuses used to deny requests. - Constant pressure to work overtime without compensation; 24/7 availability treated as an expectation. - Development environment runs on the cheapest possible tools (free IDEs, outdated software). - Software Development Life Cycle is chaotic: unrealistic deadlines, ignored best practices, and a codebase that is effectively unsalvageable. - Project managers provide no leadership beyond collecting minimal requirements—management has essentially given up on managing.