Hi there,

Anybody working with Swift whereby their office in bangsar south.

I am very interested to know about them.
- working culture
- salary
- benefits
- career development
- management team
- how is the interview process


Looking forward to have some feedback from the members here.

Interesting.

It has a lot of benefits such as work from home and flexi working hours.

Now swift has comes to lowyat as one of the channel used to promote themselves another empty promise company...

can't imagine how desperate are them to fill up the replacement

any tips or hints on the test for IT peeps??

nodee
Are you working there? Can share on the flexi working hour how it works?
Does the job requires travelling?
What about working pressure, does it need to work O.T. and always available/on call considering it's bank related.


Peter_APIIT
Are you working there?

doopooi
Replacement??? Were you working there previously? Many people left???

This post has been edited by CarClinic82: Nov 26 2013, 11:32 AM

It far more better than atos worldline at least. Given low pay but overload work.

anyone working here?

Hi. Can anyone comment how flexible they are in terms of the working hours and also the work from home scheme, i.e. do they only allow once a week working from home etc?

Any other benefits ?

Ahh my apologies I may look like a HR person here promoting SWIFT earlier lol. I am working in swift now.. Since they first open in March last year.

Firstly allow me to clarify that swift is indeed desperate. Desperate for good candidates. You won't believe how many ppl has failed the interviews here hence why swift keeps advertising. Turn over rate? Only 2 person has resigned so far. One is a freshie who got a better offer outside and one lady who follows her husband to singapore. We expanded from 30 ppl to close to 100 now.. Swift KL is expanding really fast.. That is why you see a lot of vacancies.. But there hasn't been the same position being advertised repeatedly.. They are all new positions

Ok don't wanna sound too butthurt ppl saying negative stuff abt my company

I am in IT department and my team is awesome. I can't say abt other teams since there are a lot of other IT teams.. Development team for diff products. There are also the finance team, support, sales, KYC etc.

Workload? Evenly balanced.. We use agile scrum methodology.. Sprints for every two weeks so we plan the workload for every two weeks based on your availability and the task priorities. We have short meetup in the mornings to catch up with the team.. If there are any blocking issues etc.

Stressful? Not really.. You do your job well, you deliver, you communicate to the team in KL & overseas stakeholders.. Again, these are all my take on my team ya.. Maybe other teams has diff workload levels..

Flexible? How flexible? During probation we come to work 9 to 530 pm. Yes, swift working hrs is 7.5 per day instead of your normal 8hr per day.. After probation you can choose your own schedule.. As long as per week you work enough hours.. Like for some we work extra an hour per day, and on Fridays we work half day.. Whatever is it, all must be agreed by your manager.

Working from home is 2 days per week.. But you must be in office at least 3 days per week. So if got cuti in that week, you probably can't work frm home cos not enough 3 days being present in office.

Traveling? Some of us get to go to Belgium, US, HK.. Based on what ur jobscope, who ur stakeholders are.. How frequent? Not so lah.. Once or twice a year maybe.. Maybe never..

The office environment here is syiok jugak lah.. Open seating.. Pantry stocked with snacks, milo, kopi, bread, nutella peanut butter yadayada.. Fridge full with soft drinks, juice, milk, cheese, fruits.. Ok must stop here
Got Xbox, board games, activities organized by committees etc.

Here we are mixed ppl from multi countries, multi faith, multi race. The management puts effort in keeping us as a team.. Not an easy task with the rate of the company growing.. Lots of newcomers every month.. Even I also tak kenal all of them. Very different from when we first joined the company. Everyone knows everybody

Penat jari type using phone. Hope this helps! Don't judge us yet before you come here to our office, meet us, go through the interview etc. Maybe you'll like us, maybe we won't be your cup of tea who knows. Hope anyone who has been to the interviews can share your experience here too! Would be great to hear what you feel about us.

I think I answered some of ur qs above.. As for OT.. I'm not sure.. I don't think we have OT.. Not many people stay back for long hours here except i think the finance peeps. Some stays back if they have conf calls with the overseas stakeholders etc.. But u can always join from home anyways..

Always on call.. Don't think so.. We do have outsourced support team who works on shifts. It really depends on which team you join.. Maybe some teams do have it but I'm really not sure. It's a no no for my team, that one I can confirm hehe

sounds interesting...

what pos opening then?

Seem exciting working there. What vacancy currently offer?

Hi Nodee,

My friend has an interview with Swift in finance department.

Do you know what is the test about and how is the bonus like at Swift?

TQ

how many stage of interview go through ?

Position that I've applied for Associate Business Analyst (Business Intelligence) (Finance & Accounting)

There are 3 stages of interview

1. Senior HR
2. Hiring Manager
3. Hiring Manager (HQ) (Belgium)

The first is to deliver more about yourself by understanding the job scope. I tend to ask regarding the career path of Associate Business Analyst (Business Intelligence), however this question which will be answered on Stage 2.

So far on the stage 1 is to show your confidence about yourself and especially on the job description.

I would say that I'm lucky enough that HR ask me to schedule for the 2nd stage interview.

The company environment is open community with hot desk concepts, means where u can sit wherever u want.

Probation is about 6 months, once passed, you get to work from home (as mentioned above) and it's subject for approval.

for public transports users, no worries, there is a link bridge from Kerinchi LRT station to Bangsar South

Nodee, anything to add on?