Good Business with Bad Boss - Research Analyst Semar Sentinel Employee Review

2.0
7 Jul 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Semar Sentinel is probably the only defence consulting firm in Indonesia. They sell good products, might be the best place to learn if you are dreaming of becoming a defence analyst. Compensation is quite okay for fresh graduate level, however it is not comparable to the work load.

Cons

Limited human resources, no work life balance at all, employees are forced to work beyond the working hours. They do not care about how many hours you work a day, they only need the task to be finished. They do not have HR or legal people within the company, so you have no one to consult when you felt overwhelmed as your superior is your everything: director, HR, and legal. No overtime pay, using 'work from home' and 'entry level does not need overtime pay' as excuses to eliminate the overtime counting system. Company is trying to maintain low budget for employees' salary by hiring more and more interns. As of June 2022, there are more than 10 interns and less than 7 full time employees working for the company. Interns are treated worse than full time employees, as they only received one third of full timer's salary, but with similar amount of workload. No career path at all. There are only intern, full time employee, and director levels within the company. Boss loves to create drama, doesn't know how to treat his employee respectfully, doesn't know how to be grateful to loyal employee, doesn't care about employees' well being. If you have never seen a boss that talks bad about each employees behind their backs, you can find it here. No appreciation no matter how hard you worked for the company. Employees are seen as someone who can be paid cheaply, as the company is operating in the third world country. No exit interview. The management established poor relationship with every single employees resigned from the company, as it believes that it has been treating the employees nicely (claimed to have provided these 'Indonesian citizens' with great salary, using regional basic salary (UMR) as the standard), and labelled all employees quitting as 'betraying' the company.

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