If you're equipped for it intellectually, you get to learn a lot about Digital Marketing from the get go, even if you haven't previously had a background in it. You're set to study and pass quite a number of certificates on various platforms in a VERY short span of time, but if you're the type to absorb things quickly, you'll be up to speed fast enough to join the rest of he workflow. This was a very intensive learning experience.
[Regarding MY branch not SG] However, you don't get enough time to "internalise" (this is the word used by them) your learnings to produce perfect work each and every time, especially when you're just starting out; and making small mistakes is a very possible tendency you can make, even if you have the best work ethic ever. As time goes, you'll find that there's not enough time to fit everything into your 9-6, which will either have you waking up early or working later just to get a headstart or catch up on all your tasks so it doesn't accumulate into the next day. This also isn't a great place for realistic learning, because they expect your work to be fast and perfect; often overlooking the fact that everyone's learning curves are different. Team culture is welcoming at first, but very soon you'll find that the office is already pre-divided into a very specific clique. There's microaggressions and subtle bullying, meetings where they pull you in to present work that's clearly not up to par (which they encourage you 'not to correct' before the meeting and 'just put in the corrections after team feedback') - these meetings are not intended for your growth, but as a humiliation ritual where colleagues who aren't even involved in your project will be pulled in under the guise of 'providing constructive feedback', but really, they're just there to exchange glances with whichever upper manager you're with and make you feel foolish; WITHOUT giving you straightforward fixes for you to learn the next time. Mild racism is also at play; and this is not written lightly. If you're the wrong colour and you make a mistake, this is highlighted with such emphasis, sometimes to your whole team, and you're made to feel terrible about it (even if your daily to-do list is so packed that it's difficult not to let mistakes like this slip by, you simply have insufficient time to check through your work); compared to other colleagues who are of a specific ethnicity, who make as many mistakes as you, but are not as berated or highlighted for it. Gaslighting is real too. If you try to confront them about the patterns you notice, they're really clever with twisting and turning their words until even you forget what you were originally trying to point out. They're geniuses at making you feel incompetent (even though you're not), lowering your self-worth as an employee, and then denying that it was what they were trying to do. I left because I realised there was absolutely no way I would grow, improve, or even 'earn' the respect of the people I was working with. There's no room for growth in a place that's already rigged to suffocate or constantly test you. Passive aggression is so unnecessary.
