Ensign Infosecurity (Malaysia) Employee Reviews & Ratings

Clueless leadership Not sure of what they want Alot of trial and error No work life balance Lucky to be well funded for senior management to be able to play " trial and error" with people's careers

So far nothing to be really complaining.

Too many projects for engineers to handle

Facilities team too rigid (Require flexibility)

- Lack of direction and focus

Too long hours, work life not well

Poor mid and executive management that were employed recently

No clear direction. Interim leadership signal more changes down the road. Most people working there are pretty new (less then 1-2 years). Toxic environment due to uncertainty and changes, not because of ingrained culture or habit.

slower career progression and pay increment

Sometimes clients are difficult but i guess it is the same as everywhere else.

Flexible working hours can be cons depends on individuals.

work life balance is gone

overtime, overtime, overtime, overtime, overtime, overtime

- Work load was somewhat heavy

-High Turn Over Rate -Need to pick up tasks or projects of those colleagues who left the company. -Slow Hiring process -No work life balance and sometimes need to work after office hours and standby on weekends as requested by customers.

Have to manage yourself for assigned projects and DIY

1. Average pay - AWS are factored in monthly pay to make it looks higher than market average 2. Hectic workload - resources are already exhausted in current projects, yet there are still many big projects waiting 3. Poor team bonding - very few team bonding events throughout my employment in the company 4. Young "royal family" in management role - lack of experience in managing people, not lenient, sometime micro-managing 5. Extreme favortism towards "royal family"

- Salary not up to market standard - Overworking - Need to improve on the SOP - Long waiting time to process claims

Old timer pay not justified. All the new hires pay are higher than those in higher level. Being forced to take cert but only certain people are being sponsored. Those being sponsored are given one month bonus. For those not being chosen, have to pay for the exam using own money and upon passing, no rewards at all. If did not get the professional cert, are at the risk of losing the job. Took the risk to lose the job but upon passing with no rewards given. Introduced job banding but no pay increment for higher band people. No pay adjustment at all. Have got the costing to hire new people but no money for adjustment for staffs. Over promise staffs with many things but none of them seems to be done. Giving excuse to drag but nothing happen. People that work hard don't get rewarded. Management don't see staffs hardwork. Yearly increment was low that could not cover inflation.

Sudden increase of workload, slower promotion

Some internal politics within the organization, although significantly better than what I have experienced with other organizations. Expectations are super high - demanding environment, demanding clients, and a significant churn/turnover in teams, resulted in key people being stretched beyond their abilities.

- High turnover of staff makes it difficult to focus on actual work - No plans for listing

was a threat researcher in ensign labs, did not feel like the leadership was there was adequate for threat intelligence. It was a lot of fluff with no substance to back it which resulted in a very high turnover rate and not much cyber security talent within ensign labs as the managers do not really care about growing the team with strong talents.

Pay is somewhat on the low side

night and morning rotation 2 month need to adjust time when working night tired work on night

- Always undergo re-organization - No direction - Management does not really care about employee's careers but more concern with business objectives

Office in industrial estate, location is ok though

- small limit for health insurance

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Not enough place to sit

Station in the Datacenter - literary work from Data center floor . No chair or table .... for months ...

In order to promote you have to "stand out." By standing out they mean doing things that are not your core responsibilities. Which means, those that climb in their tracks are not actually good at their tracks. But are just good at avoiding their core responsibilities to do other things If you focus on making the clients happy you will not be rewarded Even if you lose sleep doing so. because that is considered "doing your job" The result is that those who escape the core responsibilities and do things like write extraneous useless document, half baked automatic scripts, keep an extremely detailed record of their timesheet, have email records talking to clients or go out drink with boss will win. all things that do not value add to the client from an engineering stand point. It's not about doing actual good work it's about "showing" you did extraneous (useless) work. As an engineer a secret requirement to promote is to do pre-sales? Imagine that. What if we rated NBA players by how well they played football lol? "In order to promote you to senior you must do senior things" so what that means is, as a junior, you must wait till some newer sucker joins. Dump all the work to him, then go and clock more hours else where and contribute to enshittifying the confluence page, by recording what your juniors did. Tldr if you want to wa yang and mess around. You will be perfect here. Skills don't matter, because the client dont understand what you are doing anyways, and your management cant measure the quality of your work. If your detection rules run 100x faster than its supposed to, because you spent 8 hours trying to hack an efficient way to do it, no one cares. Just half bake it. It's not a cybersecurity company it's a cybersales company The place is bleeding talent, because they keep rewarding people who "show" work rather than do work.

EVP who likes to go around asking if people is married or single. This has infuriated many single ladies.

No work life balance No work life balance

Very evil company, the CEO is a woman. Totally unprofessional and have strange behaviour, She sold her shares already and act like she is queen everyday thinking she is very pretty. Acts really proud and see us like ants. Weird that the shareholder actually pick this bad person to be the CEO.

no on job training, difficult for no experience

-Difficult to get promotion -Difficult to change to a different job. Chances are they want you to stay at SA and not move to different job within the company

salary is not competitive as compared to outside market

Clueless Middle Management - Middle management only cares about KPI and don't understand the ground situation. "Can't be bothered to find out" attitude. M Old Birds who are are in the company are complacent and lack motivation.

work life balance learning curve

Lack management leadership No proper internal processes

Pay not competitive in the market

No career progression Leadership team has no focus and long term direction, only focus on any opportunties present just to fulfill the order book Management team has no real people management skills (old school management) High turnover rate

bad management, bad attitude of people from other department, no career growth

Short of hands at operations level; many new hired mid-level managers or account managers but no working level people. This doesn't help to reduce any workload.

- rly gotta suck up to upper management if you wanna promote or internally transfer or else you stuck in the same basic role - no career progression unless you're selected - empty promises - no choice on what you want, if you're just thrown to do something even if you don't want and didn't sign up for it then too bad suck it up (unless you throw letter of course). - forcing to take certification and then having a 1yr bond, effectively trapping you. thankfully didn't happen but the fact that they wanted to lock you in like that speaks volume. - bonus is nice but the pay itself needs work especially annual increments

Experience Silent Layoff: 1) Attended meeting with HR and RO 2) Informed notice period based on employment contract term. 3) HR not willing to share the reason and RO express surprise about this decision. 4) HR requested the need on need to sign NDA about the suitation.

Young company with exponential growth results in heavy workloads. Alot of self initiative required to fit in here.

Be more flexible with work from home. Too many meetings.

- Toxic co-worker(s) - No proper onboarding - Expected to work beyond hours - One person, many hats