there are lots of better working conditions out there.

I would say it depends on management culture of the company or your team.

Used to work as engineer with a US tech company in SG and got chance to work in 3 out of 4 different product divisions in SG:
- Division A: beyond 8 hrs a day is neither rare nor frequent.
- Division B: beyond 8 hrs a day is rare.
- Division C: pretty often we worked 10-11 hrs for two to three days randomly, out of the 5 days/week, so can't tell which day we will be free after office hour. We had a joke in the division, we don't have the concept of peak season/month, instead each year we have three months of non-peak season when we seldom work after office hour.

From my conversations with those managers, their views about employee working hours are quite different among themselves.

Feeling jealous sia

12hrs shift work?

I am also working around 15 days/mth. IT Support field.

ain’t that great? Save a lot on travelling time and cost. A lot of office work in sg 9-5 is on paper only, most stay back till 7, 8 or 9pm. At least for 12hrs shift, cabut on time, MOM doesn’t allow workers to work >12hrs/day.

Ofcoz its great. Habis shift, nobody will bother you. Bcoz u already handover to next shift.

The best part is, only 7 days morning and 7 days night. U just need to see the bosses around 5 days per month, during weekday morning shift.

Hi guys, im graduating next month and got offered a engineer role in semicon for 4.7k sgd. Benefits include 13month, 8k yearly rsu. Is that an ok salary for freshie? Should i negotiate for more?

Congrats. Very good dy. I'm guessing this is offered to Master/PhD applicants?

Is there any vacancy?

Very good offer for freshie. Congrats!

Not really degree in engineering only.. seems semicon is paying high now some even 5k .. especially if u from um

This probably does not happen often, but I did have ppl from MOM knocked on my door before, asking if certain ppl still living here or not. Then they asked me to pass a message to the landlord to update some details on who the current residents are.

I guess this really depends on where you're flying to. for me, flying to KCH, still ok. Airport there accessible somewhat. Flying to KL, I hated this, as it's such a hassle to get to KLIA/2 to PJ and back.

But SG Airport accessibility is quite convenient. I used to take first flight in the morning on a Monday, and go right to office after landing.

the actual conferment at the convocation is just ceremonial. As long as you have a letter from the university stating that you have fulfilled the requirements to get the degree, you're good to go.

But this may depend on the employer as well. I did hear a case from somebody I know that his sister was paid like minimum wage until she actually received that piece of paper from her university. however this is the only case that I have heard of though.

Thought of Viewqwest? been using it for 6 years now. quite reliable. maybe got downtime about once a year I think, but only for a few hours each time.

Thanks for going through the many posts and provide a reply on this. Much appreciated. I probably may have been a bit too paranoid on this, as there doesn't seem to be much discussion on this, and landlords doesn't seem too concerned on his either.

got it from whizzcom. very bad. telco very choppy. thinking of writing to them to cancel it

MyRepublic broadband ftw.
Their mobile service sux though.

Hi all,

It is a good move to Singapore banking ind with salary 5.5k, currently drawing 6.5k in MAS with 8yrs exp ?

Very high, is it some specialised role?