Singapore Tourism Board Employee Reviews

The Singapore Tourism Board has so many exciting opportunities and different projects. Work pressure is high, and work is fast paced. Colleagues are great and actually make the place

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Purposeful but competitive

Asst Director (Former Employee) - Singapore - July 20, 2023

As an economic agency, it is as close to private sector as you can get but still with the chain of command and paper writing critical for good governance. The purpose is clear, and fulfilling which is why the people working there are like-minded individuals. For the greater good.... The performance assessments are competitive and as with most companies, you need to be able to make yourself known and heard.

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Good work life balance

Lead Software Engineer - Android (Current Employee) - Singapore - April 12, 2023

Good place to learn and grow in career. Generous budget for training and coaching.Work life balance is good and they have work from home and remote work options

Pros

Training budgets, work life balance

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Good and young workplace

Intern (Current Employee) - Singapore - February 27, 2023

Good learning opportunities due to young department and interesting and skilled people to network with so you can build relationships and learn from each other

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Good bonuses, unequal workload across teams, lack of policy know how

Manager (Current Employee) - Singapore - February 24, 2023

Company is fun and vibrant, lots of interesting projects and exposure. Bonuses are attractive.Unequal workload across teams, poorly resourced. Internal promotion is challenging due to intense competition. Company doesn’t put talent, eg scholars where it would make the most impact. Firm may have high budget for projects like marketing but manpower is lean and staff have to work much longer hours with new projects. Frequent malfunction of laptops means less productivity so staff have to work longer hours.

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Meaningful internship experience

Intern (Former Employee) - Singapore - February 12, 2023

This role was eye-opening and meaningful as I was able to learn many new skillsets on the job. The internship program was really interesting too as I got to interact with other interns from various departments as well.

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A government body that is trying too hard to emulate a unicorn company

Assistant Manager (Former Employee) - Tanglin - December 5, 2022

Each individual employee is being given too much to work on, and often way out of the person's portfolio. Employee is often pressured to take up projects out of your skillsets or expertise just to assess how much you can be stretched, which is not fair since he/she is often not experienced in those particular scopes. The management at all levels (no matter middle management or top management) changes their mind and changes the policy direction at a very sudden notice, and leading to a rippling effect of mad scrambling by the ground employees. Overall a cold hearted organisation that places emphasis on performance-outcomes and organisational results, over employee welfare.

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Fun workplace

Assistant senior officer (Former Employee) - Singapore - November 1, 2022

The best managers and supervisors who always looks out for newbies like me. Even though I worked for only 1 year, I learned so much. The facilities in the building were amazing too!

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Great experience but my role was temporary

Senior Officer (Former Employee) - Orchard - March 2, 2022

Great experience, fun job.Exciting team bonding sessions, staff benefits and welfare. Gym is awesome and well-equipped.No opportunity for extension.No opportunity for conversion to perm role.

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Staff welfare at the STB was exemplary

Marketing Manager (Former Employee) - Singapore - October 25, 2021

I was very impressed with the STB, in terms of staff welfare e.g. medical benefits, annual leave allowance, their definitely was work-life balance, they have an in-house gym for their employees, an indoor cafe, which is very convenient and practical for the staff to unwind in between challenging project duration.Generally, all employees were very helpful as we are sometimes in need of working collaborating with other divisions within STB on a project or Event. Overseas travel was necessary at times, so STB would offer a daily stipend at overseas locations, hotel and airtravel was of course paid for by the Company, any other incidental expenses were managed by the employees themselves.

Pros

Flexible work hours, travel opportunities, subsidized external training

Cons

Long hours

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Depends heavily on visiblity

Manager (Current Employee) - Singapore - August 18, 2020

Competitive, faced paced but lack true collaborative culture. Management very concern about visibility and presentation that sometimes what's right for the business gets compromised. Be prepared to play politics. Large population of the middle and upper management work overtime and over weekends/public holidays. Progression is slow and very competitive.

Pros

Nice working level colleagues, intellectual people

Cons

Long long hours, bosses that play politics

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ok for a government agency

Contract Manager, Incentive Policy (Former Employee) - Singapore City Hall - February 18, 2020

typical government agency, lead agency for tourism. plce to learn place branding and tourism marketing. good place for a first job. can lead to role in private sector like MICE industry

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Fun place to work at

Tourist guide (Current Employee) - All over singapore - February 13, 2020

My job as a tourist guide expands my horizon and shaped me in my personal life and my work life better today. I have gone into areas I thought I couldn’t do it but I succeeded. Being a tour guide made me achieve more things

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Lack of job security

Contract Staff (Current Employee) - Singapore - November 11, 2019

The most frustrating part is the feeling that the organization does not value its staff. Freezing permanent headcount and hiring people on contracts is currently the norm. A lack of job security aside, contract staff also have less entitlements compared to full-time permanent staff, which is quite unfair.

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work life balance

Corporate Comms (Former Employee) - Singapore - November 5, 2019

It could have been better with more empathetic leadership teams and managers. Also better team esprit de corp. And to be inclusive and understanding to diverse work force.

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Enriching and Rewarding

Senior Officer9 (Current Employee) - Orchard Road - September 4, 2017

After almost 17 years with the Board, I discovered the hidden potentials that I never knew I possesed i.e. the art of interacting with people. How to win customers and how to handle difficult situations. Thru the years, I have attended numerous Courses that helped groomed me for this position.

Pros

To meet people

Cons

Long hours

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A Dynamic Environment

Senior Officer (Current Employee) - Orchard Spring Lane - July 23, 2017

Good work culture though can be a tad more organised in terms of work processes. Other than that, work culture is flexible though one may have too many things to do on one's plate at any point in time. Job scope changes to meet departmental needs.

Pros

Flexible work hours, dynamism hence you learn and experience alot.

Cons

Too many things on one's plate

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Average

PeopleSoft HRMS Lead consultant (Former Employee) - Singapore - May 24, 2017

its an average experience. work load is less. Management is slow in their work. compensation benefits are less. Understanding of the user is not that great.

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fun and casual

Deputy Director, HR & Engagement (Current Employee) - Tanglin - May 3, 2017

- Fun colleagues - opportunity to travel all over the world - no office attire required - call colleagues and senior management and CEO by name - long working hours though

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pros and cons

Journalist & Trade Visit Oficer (Current Employee) - 1 Orchard Sping Lane - November 17, 2016

It is an open office concept. Pretty much you get freedom while working here because your managers won't always be looking out for you as there is a trust build between the team and the higher authority. Cons you don't really have a work life balance because of my job scope even on weekends when there are media in town, we will have to be on standby to attend to the media.

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A bunch of fun-loving colleagues

Senior Manager (Former Employee) - Orchard - June 2, 2016

A fast-paced environment where working hours are long but I enjoyed working with a bunch of like-minded peers. A bunch of fun-loving and caring colleagues whom I enjoy interacting with.