You’d better know what kind of workplace you’re getting into - Avaliação de funcionários no cargo de Funcionário(a) sigiloso(a) na empresa Curlec

As a former employee, take it from me that all the negative Glassdoor reviews are 100% true. I have similarly experienced what other people went through in my time there. I thought for a long time about whether to speak about my experience. I finally decided that the truth needs to be spoken so potential employees know what they’re getting into. To put this in my own words: From a work perspective, they simply do not manage things properly there. Even middle management is micromanaged to the nth degree. There is no proper prioritisation or coordination on how to achieve something. They just want everything, and they want it now. They are taking on risks that they don’t even understand. There is no check and balance or adequate independence within the company. Like another review said, there isn’t even a proper KYC process. Any attempt at a healthy challenge to upper management is quashed, sometimes in very humiliating ways for the person who dared to question at all. And risks continue happening in this environment. The Stashaway issue where money was debited over 20 times for multiple customers’ accounts happened another time with a different client — not to the same degree, but that clearly shows an inept approach to resolving issues. From a culture perspective, upper management is absolutely biased towards a certain stereotype / social class. If you fit into the type of person they recognise within their own exclusive social circles, you can do no wrong and your career here can only fly. If you’re an average middle class Malaysian from a local uni… this is the wrong place to expect meritocracy from. At least half of upper management (one of the two men at the top) has a vision for the company and its future. But there is no plan or management or prioritisation of resources to get there. Decisions are not made in a structured or considered manner. Everyone is just working on everything, all the time. Everyone, everything, and everywhere all at once. The other half of upper management is the CEO who is an indolent rich guy who spends half his time either modelling or on trips abroad. The other half of his time is spent demanding numbers with no plan to achieve said numbers, or on micromanaging people relentlessly who are already doing their jobs so he can understand what it is that they are doing to achieve the goal, which he has an understanding deficiency in — and that deficiency is because he is not in touch with the operational side of things. Also, the goal in his mind keeps changing like his vacation locations. Upper management also got very angry at the bad reviews on Glassdoor and did a few things. One was to attempt to get the reviews and the page taken down. Second was to start asking people in the company to leave good reviews — for example, don’t take for good the review by the Head of Key Accounts, because that’s the brother to the CEO. Third was to go to the extent of asking an employee to remove their personal social media content and to issue a public apology when that employee posted about wanting to leave. The employee didn’t even specify what they wanted to leave. It could’ve been a relationship or a situation outside of work, but they were so sensitive that they demanded the employee post a public apology about it. It’s an invasion into this employee’s privacy, and an extremely inappropriate reaction to the feedback that they are receiving. Instead of reflecting, they double down. This alone should tell you enough about the company and the people that run it. Upper management is very condescending. They hire people for the person’s demonstrated expertise, but question the person’s advice once it is not in line with what they think, and sometimes even claim the opposite of what the facts are without any factual grounds. Everyone joins the company in high spirits and with a lot of enthusiasm to make a difference. But everyone (except those that fit into upper management’s social circles) loses their shine eventually and just does what upper management asks for so they won’t have to suffer even more daily. As you can probably already gather from the above, you will have little autonomy and trust in this company unless you fit a very specific criteria. There is little to no support for employees from a work perspective, and little prioritisation for personal growth. Join at your own peril.