Hello there, since you're mentioning that you are specializing in communications, I would assume you are leaning more towards electronics especially RF stuffs. I would say your future are bright indeed if you willing to step down in Penang.

For RF communications, there are a few big MNCs that you can pursue such as Keysight and National instrument. These company are pioneer in creating and manufacturing electronic test and measurement equipment. They are the one that supply equipment that measure and characterize your devices with LTE or 5G. They are also the key players in 3GPP organization that defines 3G, 4G and 5G standards.

Besides RF if you are willing to branch out, you can learn more about field-programmable gate array (FPGA), VLSI, Verilog and stuff and you can pursue your career in IC design in maybe Intel, AMD, Western Digital, Micron, Nexperia etc..

Still not convincing enough? Learn more about computer machine vision in your uni and land yourself a career in Vitrox, Cortex robotics, Aemulus etc. They supply equipment to inspect IC or PCB end product. As the world electronic demand increasing every day, so does company that makes inspection system

You like hardware design? You can approach Jabil or Plexus where they are the ODM of some audio product that u can see in the market and medical equipment.

There are even more big RF companies that I did not mention above. If your uni allows you to take elective subject in your 4th years (i.e. assuming you are in a 4 years course), proceed to take machine vision, and IC design related subject.

tldr: Future is bright

Anyone who are clueless and not comfortable to discuss in the public can PM me as well.

Nexperia is a company that produce diodes, FETs, IO switches etc... hence u must be familiar VLSI, IC simulation tools layout tools and modeling yada yada

I graduated from a not so well known third tier university in Malaysia with degree in E&E engineering and landed myself a good job in one of the fortune 500 company in Penang. I mostly deal with hardware digital design and I'm currently happy with my job

If you were to ask me I would suggest you to go for electronics route as I'm an electronic engineer myself and yes I'm bias. I personally believe that electronic industry are quite resilient (i.e. not 100% tho) to pandemic as the demand are growing everyday. You see, the demand are so great that that now we are having a worldwide material shortage to produce ICs and it affects almost every IC packaging company.

ABF substrate shortage leads to low shipment of CPU and GPU
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-chip-...ackaging-issues

On top of that most of my friend that landed themselves in Penang with electronic company do not experience pay cut during this pandemic period and indeed its a blessing to us. A friend of mine working in Intel are currently working from home remotely at KL since march 2020 and still counting.

Since you are graduating in April, did you secured a job with the company that you previously/currently intern in? You can always share more about your interest, FYP and the subject you took in Uni and we can discuss which company that you can give it a try to apply for jobs however there are no guarantee.

Another thing to take note is that you might not ended up with the company you like/interested but in another way you can always grow your interest if you're willing to. Say for example I personally liked Intel very much and keen to join them after graduate however I did not ended up there. I ended up with my current company and I'm still happy with my employment