- Zero career growth, especially in Asia. Satellite offices are neglected while leadership openly prioritizes the US and western markets
- Expect frequent layoffs (other contributions validates this) as the company is constantly in flux due to shifting and unstable management direction
- Performative performance reviews with arbitrary, unattainable targets that ignore market reality and resource gaps. Don't expect recognition, even if you overperform.
- Extreme micromanagement; daily surveillance of calls, emails, activities and even office attendance via IP tracking.
- Fear-based management culture where PIPs and firings are routine, not exceptional. New hires should expect probation extensions and potential terminations - This has constantly happened repeatedly worldwide in recent months
- Constant pressure with no support. Burnout is normalized, and layoffs simply mean more work dumped on remaining staff.
- Commissions are deliberately difficult to earn, with constantly changing structures (reduced commission plans or KPI targets that are changed a few months later) and frequent "miscalculations" that always disadvantages employees.
- No real incentives; no spiffs, no upside, only penalties. The job description itself is telling when mandatpory pension and basic health insurance make up most of the "benefits".
- Weak product offering and narrow client base, making targets fundamentally unachievable. Despite "competitive" commissions on paper, expect take-home commissions to be more than 50% lower than implied.
- Chronic gaslighting from management; shifting goalposts, denying systemic issues and blaming individuals for failing impossible targets.
- Rising workload as headcount is cut, with dependable performers expected to permanently absorb the slack.
- No localization whatsoever; same targets as oil-rich or global financial hubs especially if you are allocated vastly smaller markets selling English written products in non English speaking markets and working with fewer viable clients. You're barred from major MNCs that are western-origin yet held to the same quotas.
- Crippling bureaucracy (legal, credit control, approvals) that actively blocks earning potential and forces employees to fight just to protect earned commissions.
- Endless internal battles to get basic approvals or correct commission payouts. Operates like a London-centric company stuck in British Empire-era thinking of how the world works.
- Expect compensation, incentives and support to steadily decline.
- Zero work-life balance; expect to work around London timings. CEO lara has openly stated her disdain for "work life balance" so read into that what you must.
- Pathetic travel budget that requires arduous justifications when the work requires frequent travelling to meet clients but senior management constantly makes pointless and useless trips on business class. (like a MD that took a pointless Asia world tour right after a retrenchment exercise in 2025).
