Star Media Group Berhad Employee Reviews & Ratings

Company is struggling to come up with a sustainable response to the rapidly declining income and profit

A few editors may be unfit for the position, at the bureau's side.

Tight deadlines, no work-life balance. Can't recall how many times I had to cancel dinner plans to chase a story. The life of a journalist can be dangerous. There are some job hazzards associated with the work.

company is too big, management and control is not in place

poor leadership, outdated practices, bureaucratic, legacy management issue

Most senior and old staff do not have qualification and they are real stumbling blocks to the company as they are no longer relevant

Management and HR is a huge mess. Layers of bureaucracy and old timers make change hard. Constant retrenchment scare from mismanagement even before Covid. Turnover and retrenchment meant one person do many ppl job.

- Understaffed, overworked without proper increment - Higher-ups not willing to listen to ideas/complaints/solutions but expect staff to produce miracles - Very little room for career growth/salary advancement

Wish to work under a better immediate superior

Very boomers culture, slow in digitalization. Still stuck in the old paper era. REfuse to leverage on social media.

Toxic Management, Politic-heavy, Reactive Promotion

Trying to move away from traditional methods of business, but in that way is a good ground for experimenting new digital ideas.

Not much work life balance

too many things to handle

Being long standing also makes it old fashioned in parts, from work culture and aspects of admin interactions. The static upper management also makes it harder for new hires to push up to the upper ranks and can curb career progression beyond one's initial role. The industry is also shrinking rapidly, so expect things to get worse as more cost cutting is introduced.

salary is to low for the effort

No clear direction from management

Newspaper industry is a tough industry with introduction to social media

Less salary increment and career prospect within the company

Regressive rather than progressive work culture.

Senior management, resistance to transformation

Cost cutting being done more and more. Not hiring staff who have left. While bosses are nice, sometimes their intelligence can be questioned. Very frustrating at times

Poor leadership and management with no vision or mission that is truly on the ground. Just a lot of rhetorics from leaders. And it is still being made used of as a media channel to air its political party's owners through politically appointed top leadership who do not know a thing about media. There is so much potential yet The Star is being ruined by people benefitting most from it.

Very low pay and increment

Tight deadlines Need to be available all the time even after working hours Will be overwork

Heavy preference for advertisers only

Retrenchment of staffs causing everyone to leave the company

- medical benefit is not great - management busy playing with politics in promoting their own people instead of having good merit - performance review is a way to bully some people by management giving them 0% marks when it's not their money to give. in short, power hungry. - sexual harrasment by senior male staffs - very chinaman thinking: if you're not in the office at 9am, it means you're lazy and not working.

-not have a lot of stalls and restaurants nearby. -sometimes going back late to do emergency things but so rarely

Environment doesn’t look like a cooperate company Bossy boss Less opportunity

Leadership is horrendous. Non professional and ignorant to others.

Media landscape is changing and there are challenges

Not much increment benefits, and growth

No overtime for really busy days.

Unable to bring revenue yet get promoted by the mgmt because she had tried her best affort. Cut other HOD and staff performance bonus to give her and the entire revenue team. The revenue team has the most GM inside but 0 revenue. Excellent mgmt.

politics and dead wood & favouritism

Not comfortable to disclose this information.

Not up to date when it comes to the trends in media.

1) The Sales & Events role promises commission for every team project and closed sales. Part of the sales team job. 2) I, for 1, never receive a commission. I tried to fight, but I'm just a minor. 3) I stepped up just to be scammed by a company that takes employee feedback but does nothing about it. You need to find supportive and leader-minded superiors who will fight for what's right for their team. Unfortunately, I did not get that. There is bias. Im malay.

Average pay, Facilities in the building can be improved.

At times but not frequent overtime

-No annual bonus -Low salary increment -Limited career growth opportunities -High staff turnover

Pay rises are slower than other companies

Management are not as good as they think they are.

team downsized, a lot of cost cutting

Growth is limited unless you have a good superior

Many. 1. Outdated working style 2. Portraying as modern corporate but in reality, they are very narrow-minded 3. Useless bosses that relying on staffs 4. Management is in delusional and indecisive

growth can be limited, not the best pay wise

Salary not as per industry standards

Hope to see more new advancement