Decathlon reviews

Upper management is more concerned with self advancement than performing their roles adequately or even competently. Complete lack of team spirit among management with several of the members hustling to simply make themselves look good. English skills among upper management are middling to poor for a team spearheading a retail expansion to the US. This led to significant lost time due to inability to communicate clearly, and a feeling of inferiority American employees, as conversations among non native English speakers invariably defaulted to French or Spanish. Constant introduction of new top priorities created lack of focus and progress for the entire organization. All decision making is at the whim of the CEO who provides no context to his outlandish demands, nor will he speak with anyone but a handful of the expatriate management team. This is completely at odds with their often stated ideal of a "flat" organization, where everyone is supposed to feel empowered to take the actions they feel will make a difference.

Once you prove that you are able to perform well, leaders will pile you with so much workload while pay doesn’t change. there is a “side mission” project that leaders say is not compulsory and up to personal interest, but they don’t mention that if you don’t take it, your pay doesn’t increase. essentially breaking up full time roles into “side projects” for you to take on. especially true for locals and fresh graduates eager to prove themselves. On the other hand, some team mates and even leaders are always nowhere to be seen, can be unresponsive to emails, text messages, even deadlines for a few weeks/months with absolutely zero consequences. no side mission at all, and yet they are drawing higher salaries. Manager always like to preach that feedback is welcome, but once any kind of displeasures get voiced out, becomes super defensive and shuts down any kind of discussion. wants to receive feedback but unwilling to listen to criticisms. Also likes to blame Singaporeans for the mess that the entire department is in. Always saying stuff like “don’t be too Singaporean”, “please speak up” in department meetings. Blames high turnover rate on Singaporeans and the apparent “job hopping culture” here. Clear demonstration of favouritism from Manager when one of the leaders leaked sensitive information regarding the department when they uploaded their personal drive onto the shared drive. Investigation was launched, but instead of punishing the leader, they tried to cover it up and to push the blame on the people who accessed the file. Not sure if the leader got away scot free, but am inclined to believe so.