that y i need to ask that whether it is a trend that the starting paid is in this range, if yes, then i will put them in my consideration list, else I will straight away kick them out from my list, cos from my point of view, if a company that unwilling to treasure the worker, unwilling to pay the reasonable amount for hiring talented person to help them earn money, i doubt that there will have more oppurtunity for me in that company.

4yr ago, living expense are still not as higher as nowadays, if want to compare like your way of thinking, then I should be grateful to accept a job at RM1k, becos this salry is "damn high" during my dad times .

Second class upper: 2.5 to 2.6k

First class: 2.8k to 2.9k

Intel pays RM 500 for permanent and RM 3000 for GT as relocation benefit.

it's good to hear that you have been offered with jobs to choose. i shld said: "congrat!" but ur attitude seam to worry me (more if i were ur employer to be)

u would also wanted to consider the job nature, what it's job desc, and more, not only the salary. ur targeted field like testing is quite common nowaday in penang (coz lots of mnc hav it). but there is 2 majority. one direct support on manufacturing, one is on development. both will have thier own benefit if u r in. validation ,design and R & D (R&D term is actually a bit too wide to be defined) will be straight forward, but will mostly limit ur future advancement.

My friends are GTs at Intel.
Graduate Trainee.

When you joined as GT?

without handful and useful exp, u r way far from "talented" in worklife. u cld be talented in some way back in uni time, but study and work is totally a diff things. oh man... what happen to nowaday's fresh grad...? yeah, probably u r 1 of special n most talented fresh grad out there. but with odd kind of attitude, ur talent will not be fully appreciated... think!

hahaha...  industrial trainee is diff from graduate trainee!! anyway, how many years back u got that 300 bucks?

Yeap ... that's why Intel is compensating in term of relocation benefits for non-adjacents states. RM500 vs RM 3000. See the difference.

is quite a big surprise that my thread got so many reply in such a short time. First to all, I should apologies to those that think that my altitude got problem on search job (i assume that ppls think that I'm arrogant and picky on job, money minded, rite ?).Is my bad that I didn't stated clear about the scenario and the job offered.

1st case, The melaka company (company M), I got a fren's fren (called it Mr. A) work in there, Mr. A also a fresh graduate, however, he had work in another company for 2 month then only join the company M, and they offered him a salary of RM2.4k with OT allowance of RM50/3hr. The position he work is non-related to technical (related to project management,process,dealing with customer,etc). However for the position that I being offered is 80% technical (as told from the interviewer), but the salary I being offered are merely RM2k. So for sure, not matter how your own mentality are, once you know that there got another ppl in similar situation with you, however the salary being offered are different, what will you think about it ?

3rd case, the 2.2k post in johor, ok, this one so far i can said that is qutie reasonable, R & D Engineer, no allowance except OT (RM25/3hr). But problem is the job scope, even is R & D, but I need to handling 50% technical and 50% for non technical, such as deal with customer, operator, production line, testing,blablabla, (i cant remember all), initially I was shocked on the job scope, however they explained to me that it for my own benefit, cos i can learn more, one thing i remember clearly is that they said: "without those exp, wat if u develop sth that cant be put into production line to be manufacture, then it will be a problem to you", emm, sound reasonable to me. However after seeking advice from my lecturer, he told me that I shouldn't divide my attention on so many aspect, if want to go into R & D, I should emphasize on it, to gain deeper knowledge on certain technology. Tats y I also headache.