Age: 26
Job Title : Senior RnD Engineer
Job Desciption : To integrate new chips into packages.
Years spent in company: < 1 year
Company: OEM/MNC, LED semiconductor
Employment Level : Senior Executive
Experience before joining : 3 years as NPI Process Engineers in subcon.
Current basic: 4.3k
benefits: 1 month contractual bonus, car loan subsidiary ~ RM180 a month, house subsidiary ~rm 400 a month(bond for 10 years). 3 months Performance bonus.
Working Hours: flexi.

I am wandering if anyone in Penang/ malaysia working in a semicon field having better or equivalent pay as i am with equivalent working experience? I am just surveying and see how to go about my career path. . Im okay with my current pay but i wish to do better.

Check your contract. There are some contracts written black and white stating if you've not completed the full tenure you're not entitled the contract.

By default, contract positions you should get a pro-rata in bonus. (Check contract)
Permanent employment on the other hand, well definitely no such thing as pro-rata.

Answer this question: If u have some of the required papers in your AS degree and zero experience but u have an attitude that stinks so bad that the interviewer realises it during the interview, would you still be offered a 5 digit salary paying job?

A simple yes or no answer will do. No need for lengthy explanations.

Btw, i didnt mention this earlier but i have a close Malaysian associate who is AS qualified and she works with Shell Norway. She was a brilliant student at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK which was the first uni in UK to offer Actuarial Science. I did have a chat with her the other day and sent her the link to this forum. She actually laughed at what u said and she said the same thing that you will learn the harsh reality of AS only when u actually start studying for it and subsequently working in that field.

So u see, i dont actually speak without checking my facts.