SMS-SME Reviews

3.2

53% would recommend to a friend

(19 total reviews)

46% positive business outlook

SMS-SME has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 19 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there.

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19 reviews
2.0
24 Oct 2023

Bad culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good diversity of snacks & drinks in pantry.

Cons

1. Lack of communication. Information is usually poorly passed down the chain. When email is addressed to engineers, sometimes the content is in their native language. 2. Inefficient workflow. When the senior engineers have conflicting opinions with each other, they don't want to discuss amongst themselves before informing the juniors what to do. The juniors usually end up caught in between the senior engineers. 3. No proper career roadmap. Any career progression presented to employees does not happen at all. Only the very senior native employees will have their own hierarchy. Everybody else is just of the same rank/position in their eyes. 4. Very old-fashioned culture. Want to expand but still want to stick to the old ways. Originally from overseas, the company moved to Singapore but company is not willing to adapt to the local culture. 5. No consideration of employees' well-being. Company's expectations does not seem to take into consideration of work-life balance. There are rumors of performance being rated based on the 'time in/out' system. 6. Micro-management. Employees are expected to get their emails checked before sending out to external parties. Not a sustainable solution.

4.0
26 Oct 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Result-oriented, many team bondings, people are generally very friendly and helpful

Cons

Working hours can be long during busy seasons, so expect to work unpaid OT to meet the deadlines

1.0
24 Oct 2023

Decent pay but probably no work life balance.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Team dinner and lunch that happens once in a while.

Cons

1. Ot culture is encouraged. If you don't perform OT they will think you very free. 2. Yearly evaluation is waste of time when they don't read. And you cannot comment or suggest anything about the higher management problems or issues. 3. Leaders who doesn't give clear instructions, no communication among the senior leaders as well. 4. No career progression. 5. Controlled leaves application, it will be difficult to apply more than 5 working days. 6. Reorganization happens suddenly and randomly and we are expected to deal with it ourselves. You can suddenly be doing something u have not done before with an unreasonable timeline, you have to OT to learn and study and complete within the timeline because they like to see you OT and work hard. 7. Backwards moving company, no innovation and streamline of processes. 8. When the leaders ask you to do something, they want your 100% when you seek their advice they might just MIA. 9. High turnover rate. But no replacement. Engineers who stay have to take over extra job. Vicious cycle. 10. Ship related industry but don't expect high bonus in this company, work and bonus is not directly proportionate.

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