Workplace reviews and discussion: TomTom Asia_通騰科技股份有限公司

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The R&D and testing departments are currently led by a female manager whose background is in the arts. She has only limited knowledge of software and technology. She became the head of the engineering department because she is very good at speaking, so she has managed the engineering department into a complete mess. Employees have communication barriers with her, so the atmosphere throughout the department is very poor.

She discriminates against pregnant employees, employees who have elderly people, children, or other family members at home who need care, and employees who take leave. She does not like employees who take leave, so when an employee needs to request leave, she appears on the surface to be very willing to approve it, but she speaks negatively about the employee in meetings, saying that taking leave has delayed official work. When hiring new employees, she also deliberately looks for people who do not intend to become pregnant, have no family members at home who need care, and do not like taking leave.

When recruiting new employees, she may clearly be looking for someone to perform role A, but ask people with expertise in role B to come for interviews, take tests, and write résumés in a specific format, ultimately not hiring them and wasting the interviewees’ time.