As i know, nowadays software engineering there is not so valuable as much as like b4,
if you are not studying in overseas (software engineering) but in malaysia,
your "price" will not get very high only.....

i dunno how much is the basic salary for software engineering now,
and do they are very needed in malaysia ?

thx for your opinions and advice~

I just get an offer from Software company for software engineer post. They just willing to pay me RM2100, I am still considering...

Seems like programming is not getting high pay in malaysia.

AFAIK, currently if you are applying for a job as a software engineer and you are a fresh graduate, they'll put you to a series of test. If you really impressed the interviewers, you can be sure that you'll get your expected salary or somewhere near it. But it depends on the company though.

If you get a rm2100 offer and you're a fresh grad, you should be thankful as it is above the average here in Malaysia for your current level. But don't worry, it'll surely increase after you've finish your probation period, but still, that depends on the company.

to put it simple, it all depends on the company that you've applied. LOL

Its true, pay in IT industry in masia is low, compare to India and Middle East.
In India, My friend s are getting 8000 to 12000 RM, where the freshers may get 2000 to 3500 Rm, this is considered high pay among others in india.
Where in Middle East like UAE and saudi the pay for supporting role may get 8000-20000RM simply.

So, My frends from India reluctant to come to Malaysia for work.

dunno u guys heard b4 or not, INTELl will pay rm2600++ for a fresh graduate? but it depends on ur graduation grade, if not mistaken, CGPA should be at least 3.5 and above

i am currently study software engineering in taiwan university(2nd year),
i heard that the salary in taiwan for fresh graduate is around RM2500..
but it is very easy for increasing your salary in few months...
and about 4 years++, if you done your job very well...u will be promoted into team leader,salary is about RM6000-RM8000..

my lecturer said that nowadays it is too many university student,
so if can,get a master degree in india in this field...then u will become higher pay..

so i am still considering about aftere graduate, bek to malaysia ? or staying oversea......

Just wonder, if RM 2100 in Malaysia consider low then which field is higest pay in Malaysia( fresh grad) ? Enginering / Business Management / Sales ?

I felt is not IT is low pay maybe avearage all the field - fresh grad is around this pay. Pls correct me if I am wrong

i think so..if u have experience more than 5-10 years..
your salary will be 2x or higher,
and relatively, the probability of expelled by company are more higher,
hire 3-4 fresh grad (RM2000 x 3/4) are more save cost than hire a veteran who have 10 year experience (RM10,000)

I remember reading at an ads in the newspaper that a company offering RM8XX salary for software engineer....
Correct me if im wrong...

rm8xx ??
really? software engineering really is a low-pay job in malaysia ,
if in china or western country, it is very high pay...

To keep things in perspective, there's always ppl out there who's only willing to pay peanuts to get a good job done. So yeah, it may be true that there's jokers out there offering only RM8xx salary, but the question remains of if they're able to find anybody or not.

chuinhooi: When you had mentioned that u were told that the market is flooded with too many graduates right, that's only partially true. There's always a huge demand for good IT ppl, but the problem is more to do with too many places churning out graduates of dubious quality these days. Compared to something like Engineering, IT is a relatively new discipline, and still lacks the QC stuff that's required for engineering, of which adds to more and more dubious IT courses being offered all over the place.

there r plenty of IT jobs out there....and it comes with pretty decent pay too.

n there r plenty of IT grads out there too.

But very little capable IT grads to fill the gap in the demand.....

what is the difference between software engineering and IT ?
software engineering = IT ??

IT is very general , which included everything bout computing. and SE is development of software. correct me if I'm wrong.

However , IT Personnel no longer one of the Top hottest employment opportunities, already out from Top 10, years agos.
unlike last time doing static HTML also can get rich (very long time agos)

Software engineering is not about programming. It is just a small subset. A software engineer is suppose to know about the Best Software Design Patterns for a particular requirement and common industry Practices, the various type of development processes, tools and the latest technology.

If you say software engineering is about programming then i suggest you go back to college Best go back to a new college if you can, your last one definitely had mislead you.

then programmer is in IT field?

there's a lot of IT graduate in Malaysia now. so that's why i think the salary nowadays too low. i remember my lecturer said when i was study that Software Engineer and System Analyst will get at least RM 3k minimum salary. but now its much cheaper. i started with 1900 as a software engineer at cyberjaya, now already two years i work as a software engineer, only get 2k++ salary..even my friend, network engineer, get 3k for 1 year experience. and also nowadays, software engineer and system analyst is a programmer also..too bad...

This post has been edited by koisempoi: Sep 5 2007, 11:20 AM

Your statement is not really true. According to the salary benchmarks in zdnet, the salary offer in india is lower than Malaysia.

Otherwise, we won't see so many indian (from india) here.

Wow if India is even more expensive than Malaysia,then Malaysia engineers are really dirt cheap.

in singapore, a lot of programmer from india...in mrt i always saw indian with laptop doing his work..some of them reading or holding a books about programming (pl/sql,.net,c#..etc). they've been paid with a high salary.