Singapore Press Holdings Employee Reviews

Numerous learning opportunities empower individuals to cultivate self-motivation and achieve rapid advancement. Conversely, poor leadership that sweeps issues under the rug leads to reduced team morale.

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Challenging place to work with.

QA Manager (Former Employee) - Singapore - June 13, 2023

It’s not easy to work in this place , scores poor on work life balance. Medical and other perks are ordinary.Management expects too much and renumeration does not match expectations and nowhere close to the industry.

Pros

Free Newspaper

Cons

Medical only for employees, not a very good plan as such. Increments and bonus needs improvement.

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Friendly working environment

Journalist (Former Employee) - Toa Payoh - October 20, 2022

As a journalist, you are sort of expected to handling everything on your own. I was not familiar with the news writing procedure and industry but my superior and colleague were kind and patient with me.

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Fun workplace

Printer (Former Employee) - Jurong Port - April 29, 2022

Pretty easy work culture once you know what to do or whats going on. Just be a Yes Man. Want to learn this that? Just say yes. Imprint yourself as someone who wants to learn and engaging.

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It is good company. Good new management

IT Manager (Current Employee) - Sph - April 23, 2022

Good company. Nice management. They reviewed salary structure based on competitive market range. But looks a view like uncertain due to transformation

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Senior management lack foresight and backward thinking

Art Director (Former Employee) - Genting Lane - January 10, 2022

Avoid if you can - no progression. Long hours and not a place where you can grow. Management is also not interested in growing their staff professionally.

Pros

Helpful colleagues

Cons

Toxic colleagues, bad management

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Good team dynamics

Assistant Manager (Former Employee) - Singapore - June 20, 2021

Nice teammates to work with and will support each other, good manager who will guide you through patiently when required. There are training opportunities to upgrade/learn new skills.

Pros

Training opportunities

Cons

Low salary

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Good Benefits, no proper direction from management

Manager (Former Employee) - Marketing - February 21, 2021

Staff perks and benefits are good. However, poor management direction. People at the management level do not see eye to eye and are in a power struggle. Most of the commercial heads are just doing things that please their direct bosses and not for the good of the company. Favoritism and politics are often displayed in most divisions. HR does not thoroughly look into resignations and staff's unhappiness.

Pros

Annual leave

Cons

Long working hours, office politics

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A good place to start out

Intern (Former Employee) - Toa Payoh - June 19, 2020

You have to be very proactive and informed to do well in this job. It doesn't hurt to exercise your people-pleasing skills. The senior staff have quite old-school mindsets, which could be a good or bad thing depending on yourself. Job progression seems quite slow. Good company name though, it will open doors.

Pros

Gym, Doctor, Lots of free food, caring management

Cons

Long hours, low pay

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Productive and fun workplace with lots of learning opportunitues.

Software Engineer (Current Employee) - Singapore - May 27, 2020

The management is very open to new technologies where teams are given opportunities to explore and create production-grade solutions. Most of the development teams follow the agile methodology which promotes a very highly interactive approach to product delivery.

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Manager (Current Employee) - Toa Payoh - April 28, 2020

if looking for a retired place to land in, SPH could be a good one. but if you are looking for a place to growth yourself, that will not be a place to fight for your worth stay ..

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Productive workplace

Senior Account Manager (Former Employee) - Singapore - March 26, 2020

Learning the ropes of media sales is good to kick-start in SPH and work culture wise is very fun and enjoyable You must be sales oriented too in order to deliver

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Great company to work with

Senior Administrative Assistant (Current Employee) - Circulation - March 16, 2020

Excellent colleagues/mgmnt to work with. Conducive environment. Lots of learning experiences. Stability & nice working culture. Fun & vibrant when events are hosted. Will definitely encourage people to apply for their job postings.

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Fun Workplace but Limited Progression

Manager (Former Employee) - Singapore - March 3, 2020

fun team & family to work with, always brainstorm crazy ideas together. GM is a very good leader however people at the middle management level are self centered, back by upper management or just want to keep their bowl. Overall the cultural is fine but limited career progression.

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Good Workplace

Assistant Manager (Operation) (Former Employee) - Singapore - February 29, 2020

The slow pace and effective scope, there is some concern on the operational effectiveness and innovation in product, there is a big area that need workforce to develop

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Fast-paced working environment

Editorial Intern (Former Employee) - Singapore - February 26, 2020

Daily Job Scope: - repurposing articles from other news sources onto our website - searching up information relevant to articles we want to write Most enjoyable: - attending press events

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Big organization

Advertising Account Executive (Current Employee) - Toa Payoh - January 13, 2020

Nice colleagues. Pleasant working environment. No clear career progression or guidance from HR. Really big organization with many different and possibly duplicated teams which makes getting work done complicated.

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Productive and Agile methodology of working

Software Engineer (Former Employee) - Singapore - December 26, 2019

As a developer I would like to mention that working in SPH was a great experience for me because I had a great chance to attend so many trainings which the organised paid for. Other than that the teams in the organization was so enthusiastic and fun loving.

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Productive and fun workplace

Senior Administrative Assistant (Former Employee) - Toa Payoh - December 16, 2019

Throughout the day I completed various administrative duties preparing weekly/monthly reports for division meetings. Churning reports upon internal/external requests and helped managers/execs in preparing documents for presentation. The hardest part of the job, when given a big project by head division to be completed immediately, in a short notice and at the same time had to close the weekly/monthly reports. The enjoyable part of the job when everyone helped as a team in order to finish the crucial task.

Pros

Teamwork

Cons

Long hours

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productive and engaging workplace

Promoter (Part-time) (Former Employee) - singapore expo - November 27, 2019

productive and engaging workplace, encourage people to speak up to promote the SPH e-news application. Boost confidence level...........................

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Assistant Librarian (Former Employee) - Toa Payoh North - November 5, 2019

Very happy working at SPH for more than 30 years. However always felt that my work was never appreciated. Favouritism was very predominantly practiced in my department.

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