Politics and Poor Management - Anonymous employee Agoda Employee Review

1.0
Oct 9, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Talented, hardworking employees, none of which are management.

Cons

- Employees are severely underpaid - No respect for personal time whatsoever - Micromanagement across all teams - Politics, politics, politics - High turnover due to limited room for growth, low pay - Branching off of limited room for growth - empty promises are made for promotions and merit increases (constantly) - Very little transparency - Initiatives and priorities change too fast with little warning and little organization - Cheap to the point of embarrassment - Disorganized - Terribly on boarding process for new hires - Discouraging atmosphere - Unrealistic expectations - Poor annual review process - Poor change management initiatives - Little structure around career development

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