career

many ppl said CS roles are saturated here. but actually not quite true. the problem is that there are plenty of software developer roles. BUT with a low salary. ( and like most people said, it is closely follows with “engineer is not valued here” statement ) . Most of the low salary roles come from local companies. Then where are the high salary roles? Usually it comes from MNCs. But the problem is that, Malaysia’s FDI is still low as compared to other countries such as Singapore, etc. Because of that, MNC roles are scarce here. so we usually see 100-200 applicants for highly sought roles at MNCs and GLCs ( Telekom Malaysia, Petronas Digital, etc). When I was in Japan, CS jobs are plentiful, up to the point that expats are encouraged to work in IT sector ( i have a american colleague who is an english teacher, he took a 3 months bootcamp and end up working as cloud support engineer, and another pinoy colleague who works as a translator, got a job as Frontdesk Engineer. these show how desperate Japanese companies are right now ) and they need to source manpower from overseas ( lots of IT projects being outsourced to Vietnam ) .

so what to do? being a fresh graduate might have lesser chances to earn ‘proper livable salary’ , therefore it might be good to jump to different companies as much as you can. because when you jump, you will gain more connections which is a big investment in the later life. ( i got hired by a hiring manager who was my former colleague from previous company 6 years ago )

another way is to work abroad, which some might feel unattracted to it ( especially when you already have family or u punya GF/BF lari ke org lain nanti ) . but thats the reality, jobs are SIGNIFICANTLY more in other countries. companies in malaysia are having a sweet time because of this unlimited source of talents. at Huawei, most of their engineering roles are contract basis. they happily terminate the contracts and replace with a new guy in an instant.