Good global company BUT poor subsidiary management (SEA) - Product Marketing Manager Phoenix Contact Employee Review

3.0
9 Nov 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

. Quality german products and renowned branding . Related customer industries are booming . high variable bonus+ was . Free meals & alcohol provided . Headcounts are easily justified, compared to other companies . Money & resource rich subsidiary . Changes new laptops every other year with iPad and other equipment. Free to attend training courses. Get to travel to HQ and other countries even as a new staff. Company space is ever-expanding

Cons

. Extremely high turnover rate (including the HR team itself) . Micromanaging culture . Management personnel with poor leadership skills and uninspiring . Highly political environment . Many roadblocks when delivering work, mainly from inefficient internal processes, backdated software, and politics . Practice a biased hiring process, friends of senior management are hired instead of needed talents . The workforce is made up of a lot of people that have questionable job scopes and input, that can add true value to the company . Negative drinking culture. believes that alcohol with customers is the key way to generate sales revenue. And alcohol with management can set you up for promotion. people got drunk and wasted in the office . Females get an unspoken advantage over males . and so on

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2.0
14 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexibility in the work schedule

Cons

Company is in chaos. Communication is nonexistent. Poor decision making is abundant.

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