Declining benefits and no clear positives - Software Engineer Merquri Employee Review

✓ Monthly team bonding ✓ Hybrid work ✓ Annual company trip & dinners ✓ Colleagues are generally helpful (except some leaders) ✓ Team is supportive and collaborative

1. Leadership operates on favoritism. • Inner circle gets fast-tracked approvals, better treatment, faster advancement • Outside the circle? Scrutinized heavily, stricter accountability, slower/blocked advancement • Same work, different outcomes based on who you know 2. Complaints treated as facts without verification. • External complaints are accepted immediately • No one asks the person being complained about for their side • Unverified complaints become part of your record • Reputation damaged by hearsay 3. Performance reviews are gossip-based. • Feedback is vague: “general feedback” • Translation: no specific examples = based on what they heard, not what they observed • High performers with bad internal PR get low ratings • Mediocre performers with good relationships get high ratings 4. Salary increments are underwhelming. • Raises don’t match market rates or performance • Even high performers get minimal increases • Cost of living goes up, salary doesn’t 5. Promotion is purely about relationships, not merit. • Advancement depends entirely on who likes you • Talented people get blocked if they’re not in the inner circle • Less capable people get promoted because they have the right connections • No transparent criteria for promotion • ‼️ Beware of certain leaders (particularly those in senior positions) who weaponize favoritism—if you’re not their favorite, you’re a target 6. Threatening employees during exit. • When people discuss why they’re leaving, they’re threatened: speak negatively and face consequences • Result: no honest feedback, no real understanding of why people leave • Company stays blind to actual problems

Good benefits like free foods, company trip

Micromanagement, when QA team dislike you, you will get stuck in your title position because team lead and project manager will just listen to the feedback from QA Small job title promotion chance