Senior group manager
Mar 10, 2026Pros
This is a multinational setup with rich heritage of over a century. Company embarked on an ambitious transformation to change for the better and compete with others.
Cons
1. Highly traditional mindset and living in the 1990s 2. Very decentralized setup with many generals who do not see eye to eye with each other. 3. Some leaders are delusional with excellent capabilities to pass their work to others and yet taking the glory. 4. Irresponsible spending from the top management; flying in and out with no clear objectives, wasting employees time on useless meeting and staying at 5-star hotels ;yet telling employees that the company is not making enough. 5. Quiet and sudden retrenchment in few countries including Hong Kong, Singapore and even Malaysia 6. Preached about Value Creation Center as a new scalable and cost efficient set up aka cheap labour center. Yet the center also known as Prudential Services Asia (PSA) conducted some quiet retrenchment in 2025. HR tried to cover the news but employees are not blind. 7. If your leader has strong political arm, you will get your way. 8. HR is just a puppet and they like to push decisions to each other and not taking ownership. They can hire and fire at will without proper reasons. 9. Company preached delusional Unity. Within Malaysia, even the 4 business units don’t see eye to eye. 10. First financial services who don’t even offer their employees own products, instead used a third party provider. What an embarrassment. HR just said they don’t know. 11. So so benefits. 12. There is no sense of belonging. Everybody takes care of their turf and they happy to eliminate the other turf. Employees could see that there are frictions at the management and not seeing eye to eye.