Toxic working culture - Software Engineer Shopee Employee Review

2.0
May 3, 2020
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Intensive tasks will push you to learn something about e-commerce and some big data processing framework. if you just want to learn some software programming tools and development process and stay here for a short term, you can consider it.

Cons

1. Chinese kingdom. Apparently Shopee is a Chinese dominated company where even documents are Chinese. Managers will speak Chinese to their Chinese peers from China. So you cannot understand what they say, which alienate non-Chinese so much. And this also means non-PRC Chinese are not considered as leaders cuz they are not in the social circle. 2. top-down management. no discussion, you just receive order, and then do do do. the so-called tech lead will check your progress every 1 hour. 3. abusive language used by manager. my tech lead said very nasty words to me. and also once a time, I heard one manager shout at the office with f* word in the morning. 4. no training, no tutorials,...

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Shopee Response
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Hi current employee, thank you for leaving a review. We appreciate your feedback and regret to hear of such an experience. We take your feedback seriously and we will look into this matter with your help. Please reach out to our team at [hr.experience@shopee.com] and we will get back to you immediately. Lastly, thank you for continuing your Shopee journey despite having a difficult time! Hope to hear from you soon!

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