Clown culture, clown everything - Avis employé Employé (anonyme) FirstCom Academy

1,0
8 mai 2024
Employé (anonyme)
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Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

None. Lots of red flags from day 1.

Inconvénients

Firstly, compensation is a joke. Empty promises. Why want to act like the company is generous when you can't even pay the market rate to hire your employees? Only know how to lowball their way to get talent, but a huge problem is retaining, thus the weekly onboarding of new hires. Feels more like a wet market than a professional workplace where there are tons of gossip and mocking of each other in malicious ways (whether joking or not, not cool.) Degrading of the female sex is also very common here. A very soul-sucking place and vibe, depending on which department you're in. No proper way of working, and teaching of processes. Teamwork and collaboration is nonexistent, and you're expected to do everything and be taken for granted. You'll also find yourself receiving "feedback" from people who aren't your direct managers, nor are they qualified to do so in the first place. What a joke. They know their culture and work environment are toxic AF, but they can only continue to be pretentious because they have become the culture themselves. Why would these people wanna leave? Of course not. They probably can't be like this elsewhere. Good luck. No matter how much you try to sugarcoat it, even with a "Glassdoor" page on your own website (yep, they created their own GD page), you know it doesn't work that way, right? I mean, come on. LOL.

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1,0
4 juin 2026
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Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

Nothing much to say expect high pay in the market?

Inconvénients

High KPI and you are expected to OT when you don’t hit your KPI. They will give you lousy location and expect you to perform well. Weekly meeting required repeating almost the same thing. Recently change name to SDA cause this name is so smelly in the industry and towards consumer.

1,0
22 sept. 2025
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Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

You’re essentially being sold the narrative that you’re “helping fellow Singaporeans upskill” by tapping on their SkillsFuture subsidies and credits. The reality is very different—there are countless other academies offering far more relevant and fulfilling courses at a fraction of the cost, in line with the true spirit of upskilling. Instead, FCA inflate fees by throwing in catered meals, while pushing outdated, uninspiring programmes in particular their soft skills courses — which add little to no real value.

Inconvénients

The CEO and management have zero regard for employees, and even less for the national agenda of upskilling. Their sole focus is milking government subsidies and schemes, right from Day 1 of the company’s existence. Ethics and integrity take a backseat—KPIs are deliberately skewed to reward staff for pushing overpriced, irrelevant courses onto vulnerable individuals. Course quality is abysmal—outdated, uninspiring, and hardly worth $200. Learners would benefit far more from LinkedIn Learning or Udemy at a fraction of the cost. Fees are inflated beyond reason, dressed up with “perks” like catered meals, but the value simply isn’t there. The culture is equally toxic. Promises to staff are rarely kept, KPIs and roles change constantly to patch up turnover, and the company suffers one of the highest attrition rates I’ve seen. You could be the boss’s favourite today and his “buay kan” outcast tomorrow—he runs on emotion, dismisses dissent, and creates no psychological safety. Yes-men survive; anyone with a backbone doesn’t. Townhalls are a disgrace—laced with vulgarities and empty boasting. The CEO thrives on sycophants, rewarding only bootlickers, while the culture he has built is shallow, transactional, and driven purely by money. When the money stops, so does the loyalty.

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