Shopee Senior Associate Consultant Reviews

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Shopee’s Post-COVID Work Culture: Favoritism, Blame Games, and Double Standards

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Shopee’s work culture changed significantly after COVID-19. During the pandemic, work-from-home (WFH) was the norm. But once the situation improved, Shopee abruptly ended WFH and required everyone to return to the office. However, this period also saw a major leadership reshuffle. Many senior managers either left or were forced to leave. The new and remaining managers, mostly of Chinese origin, started encouraging favoritism. If you were conversationally fluent in Mandarin or part of the Chinese-speaking lobbying group, you had better chances of getting WFH approvals. If not, tough luck. There were clear double standards—some employees were allowed to work remotely, while others had to show up at the office every day. Performance and contributions? They didn’t really matter. What mattered was how quickly you could shift blame onto someone else in times of crisis. If you were in the bully group, you were safe. Facts, records, message logs, or even common sense? They held no value when dealing with this group. I saw people in my own team who didn’t show up to the office for 6–8 months. They were hardly responsive, but they faced no consequences. And guess what? They’re still there. Meanwhile, others had to struggle with inconsistent policies and unfair treatment. Shopee’s post-pandemic work environment became less about merit and more about politics. If you were in the right group—the bully group or the Chinese-speaking lobbying group—you had privileges. If not, you were on your own....Read More

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Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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The high level managers can not speak in English and they will hire English speaking engineers from all over the world. The mid level managers take advantage of this situation. For years they don't do any work, and in a given situation if anything goes wrong due to mismanagement, then they will shift the the blame to engineers whereengineers have nothing to do. Mid level manager will pressure you and threat you. They know higher level manager won't give you chance to show the reality, your opinion and perspective will not be visible to higher managers. Eventually they will fire you, to hide their mistakes. I have never seen in life such unethical and unfair work culture. Its called scapegoating....Read More

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There is nothing to like about Shopee unless you are a Chinese employee. Because this company is work culture and HR managers are pretty much biased towards personal favoritism, they don't hesitate to lie and deceive which is pretty much unethical and unfair. The company pay scale must be very low, because I saw company HR is working as a fitness trainer in another company which is 30 minutes away from Shopee office building, and she is doing classes during lunch time, classes in the evening, she hardly do any work in office I guess. She is doing 2 fitness classes as a fitness trainer on the same day she is attending office also. I personally know this lady is a big lier and always very cranky, shee threat others with her hostile attitude so that everyone be afraid of her...Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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good working culture

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slim opportunity for locals to be promoted

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Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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NA

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WON'T ALLOW WORK FROM HOME

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work life balance and comapny culture

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the skill development is poor

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Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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peers are amazing. get to work on cutting edge technologies

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The management has no plan, which leads to overhiring and layoffs. There is a chinese bias.

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Nothing to review

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No thing to review

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Overall job experience was great, modiji banned the business in India now. One can have a good salary with OT allowance. Work culture was great.

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Sometimes long working hours, management was not very supportive.

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.