Job Title : Cloud Specialist
Job Description : 0365, Azure, SharePoint
Age : 32
Years spent in company : 3 years
Industry : IT
Employment Level : Exec
Experience before joining (years) : 11 years
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Bachelor's Degree
Location : KL
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 40+

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM 11,000 + 550

Benefits (where relevant) : RM 1,000/year for Dental + Optical + others like Gym, Vitamin etc.
Health Benefits : unlimited
Transport Benefits : None
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : iPhone provided + Phone allowances
Flexi Working Hours : Yes
Other Benefits : AL: 15 days, if work on PH, can get 2 days replacement leaves + Broadband claim. 1 month bonus And about 5-6% increment every year.

I feel old already, and seem my salary is quite smaller for my age. Maybe i should climb up to upper level, but the competition is too high, especially in MNC.

Lol who's salary are you trying to compare to that you think your salary is small at your age? At your age and salary is already above 70% of the people in Malaysia already, it seems that your working for an MNC company? Your company sounds like the benefit of ExxN MxxLE

Wow im cloud system eng.
just 2 years exp...

May I know where u work? startup? MNC? GLC?

Update for 2019
Job Title : Engineer
Job Description : Life safety and risk
Age : 25
Years spent in company : 1
Company : SDN BHD
Industry : Engineering Consultancy
Tenure : -
Employment Level : Junior
Experience before joining (years) : 1
Highest paper qualification/ education background : BEng
Location : KL City
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 45+

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM 3800 + RM 500
Contractual Bonus (months): -
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : 2 months

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : medical claims (no limit) + insurance
Transport Benefits : RM500 car expenses included in allowance, reserved parking spot, toll & grab claim
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : company phone and line, laptop
Flexi Working Hours : -
Other Benefits : Professional body membership fees covered, out of office claims

Quite high increment!

First salary was lower than average market so this time my boss try to match up adequately

working for SI? post sales or pre sales?

Since I accidentally bump into this thread again, might as well post it again ... No idea where was my last post but it's few years back

Job Title : Mobile Developer (iOS)
Job Desciption : Develop iOS apps and whatever related
Age : 28
Years spent in company : 2 months plus
Company : Best to not disclose
Industry : IT
Employment Level : Potato since tak ada senior title in contract
Experience before joining (years) : Total in IT 5 years+, Mobile development 2 years+
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Bachelor in Computer Science
Location : KL
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): Standard weekday 9-5

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : 7700 + 300

Benefits
Health Benefits : Standard big corp coverage which I can't remember
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : NOPE
Flexi Working Hours : Not really but the old bird tend to come late if you know what I mean
Other Benefits : AL 20 days which I think it's worth mention

This post has been edited by gn9746203: Jan 10 2019, 07:33 PM

When you shifted from IT to mobile developer, what was the difficulty faced, apart from different programming language?
And also, how is pay (increment or stays the same) when you shifted into a new field?

I am thinking to go from backend software to frontend software engineering but afraid to be underappreciated because of lack of related knowledge to the new job scope.

New company can just use the reason "oh hey you are experienced but since you are still new to the field, I am going to give you fresh graduate pay"

depends how u sell yourself. although i am fresh grad, i posseses soft skill which you cant find in fresh grad.

and try to link how your current experience can help you in the new field

Let me recap a little bit with you, I was a lucky guy, I got the opportunity to travel overseas in my first job and I make roughly around my current pay during that time with allowance. So when I first decided to switch field, I took a pay cut and start fresh again. The company in Malaysia won’t really appreciate your overall experience, they just look at what they want so it’s highly possible they will want to pay you less but trust me, they definitely want a cheap laoubor who know a lot.

Put that aside, I still encounter company that have trust on me so they offer what I want despite I don’t have the relevant experience in the field but yea, show them you actually can do. I have good technical skill so yea, language isn’t an issue for me and I worked in a big team before so I can handle a lot of thing. By the way I was a back end developer too.

So try to ask you the same question, can you do the same ?

My pay is roughly like that throughout my career
2400
2600
3200
4000
Restart
3700
5000
6500
7700

You could see that I get atleast 20% every time I make a move. Every time the new company will ask me why you demand so much? I convince them during the interview and I prove to them during the employment ... that’s it. If I never make a switch my pay is easily over 5 figure now but I am happy with it now.

This post has been edited by gn9746203: Jan 11 2019, 12:30 AM

agree that selling yourself during interview is extremely important, but I am no worried about that as I am quite confident in my soft skills

And my concern about pay drop seems to be unavoidable. but I will definitely go try for it, as I feel backend software is getting underappreciated these recent years and frontend software is what all the big big companies looking for now.

Anyway, sounds like you really good in demanding and convincing the employers to give you what you want.

I have a friend who was doing mobile app development (objective C & java) for about 3.5 years, before switching to company doing .net. Technically he's fresh in .net but the company did not think as such, and gave him a good increment jump.

My piece of advise is, not all company appreciates your total field experience, but some company do. So what you can do is if you're keen to explore a new programming language, set your minimum expected salary which you can accept going into a new field, then wait for a call. If a company offers you such opportunity with a commendable increment jump, don't think twice and go for it, and proof your skill sets later. You may experience a steep learning curve at first, but that's the price to pay when you wanna explore something new.

Backend dev definitely is a more important role but the problem with it is, backend dev has very good hardware and by that, I mean the server. No offence but that means most of the mediocre back end dev did not care the quality of the code and it really create a lot of problem for us the, mobile front end dev. I have worked with a lot of experienced back end dev and they don't bother improving the backend performance and gave me an answer of "well, the web front end works pretty well" ...

Mobile front end dev is quite challenging since we have limited resources, it's yet to take all the various devices into account so you really need to know what you are doing.

Anyway, I always tell myself this "you know what you could do, please don't let the employer bully you"

So good increment. Im 25, from .Net jump to machine language developer aka Python, have 2 years experience in .Net. Salary the same, in the same mnc. Sad life.
PS: 3.2k salary shah alam and have 91% kpi ...

Well, most of the time you have to make a jump to get good increment unless your company is generous

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This post has been edited by Random_Engineer: Jan 14 2019, 06:47 PM

Good luck to all

This post has been edited by mrflizo: Jan 13 2019, 02:38 PM

Job Title : WWTP Engineer
Job Description :Troubleshooting, monthly cost down report, improvements, documentation.
Age : 26
Years spent in company : 1+ year
Experience before joining (years) : 0
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Bachelor Degree
Location : shah alam

Monetary Payout
- Basic Salary + Allowance : 2.6k + (OT~RM600 depending ON workload) = Average monthly 3.2k

Benefits
- RM55 food coupon per month, medical, dental, monthly RM100 car allowance
- 1st year no annual leave


Japan-based company. Very stingy to increase salary & bonus. Still searching for new job that can relate my chemical engineering education background. Until now no desktop provided to do my work.

This post has been edited by Venomfate: Jan 14 2019, 11:29 AM

Gila no annual leave

Illegal iinm

This post has been edited by adamhzm90: Jan 14 2019, 01:15 PM