Singkie actually looking for analyst and not dev in their IT sector. Basically all high level post jer. Else minimum also fullstack capable... deswai their offering pay is so high, not for your average dev. Average dev tasks still outsourced to indea then bring back and do code review.

Im working as an IT professional here for quite some time already so yeah... altho i progress from DBA to DA to devops to BA and now doing SA.
my company also seeking for those devops and proper software engineer headcounts to fill lolol. As for fullstack.....

Frankly fullstack is over used hype word for a dev.... so far i rarely come across a proper fullstack but many think they are one especially those who use open sourced web frameworks. But when thrown them into a task on setting up a framework and database from scratch especially with a blank unix server then you can see their limitations.

Also technically their local talents are still very green that's why these current positions are mostly filled by foreigners with alot of experience. My current team mostly from china. So if anyone think their skills can make it, they should try now because the window is wide open right now....

can do them a favor to compete with ceca yindia because right now 90% of all applicants my company see is from there. Makes us wonder whole asean region no tech talents meh?

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Oct 7 2021, 03:02 PM

Malaysia IT fate is going very stagnant.... deswai im in SG afterall because of the lack of opportunity for my skill set. mostly are just very basic dev task meanwhile the higher level positions are mostly sales and consultancy and already very rigid and no more openings. And with IT being such a young industry, those up there are also very young so no point hoping you will take their position

Then comp anies in malaysia have the habit of not trusting local products and all venture on branded solutions so most local software vendors die one by one especially those that produces their own solution due to lack of investments. Those that are doing well meanwhile are mostly official partnered vendors such as SAP, Oracle etc but its is more of a sales and operations role... not an IT role.

Then we have political instability and also weak infra. Who want to come set up hub here. Especially Imagine after setup then randomly few years later the gov demand 51% bumi equity hahahaha.

It's more like high level openings getting scarce as tech companies moving out while low level openings become widespread

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Oct 7 2021, 04:07 PM

Very unstable as usually short term contract or project specific. Many of the companies that are doing this are also startups so they can randomly vanish without a notice aka run away with investors money lolol

Besides not just malaysia, they are doing this on the entire SEA region haha.

If youre doing this kinda scope, there's actually alot of opportunity from US and UK as well especially in game dev. A friend of mine making 5k pounds wfh wehhh

*ahem* because i advised a few of my singkie startup friends to try this option using gov grants. Friend is legit wan la but there are many in his batch really pump and dump.... many just hardcoded app front without any backend or storage for presentation purposes to fool investors, then setup some company and have staff to look real, get money then chowwww.

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Oct 7 2021, 04:30 PM

The meaning of fullstack is the capability of handling the infrastructure as well as the solutions. That's why it's a very loose word being thrown around nowadays especially with tools like firebase. The real fullstack guys are very very rare and are also very expensive haha. Mostly are project lead because they can lead the infra side and as well as the application side.

Pretty valuable now actually because it's a sign of passion as well. You put these skills in front of them and will stand out easily. Because since IT is so broad, a flexible role that can be allocated into various projects can save alot of manpower considerations as they can rely less on hiring short term contracts. And best of all they can use people with this kind of skills to lead contractors/vendors as they will have good domain knowledge as well as technical skills to do so.

I'll be pretty frank. All these dev tasks required by big companies especially in-house roles are pretty one off. Once a system is rolled out then it wont be looked into again for at least 10 years. Only maintenance and support is required and you wont need a big team for that. That's why it's pretty common for mnc to offer project based contract work for IT especially to dev.

Unless the nature of the business is providing IT solutions like google, facebook, grab etc, there is not really a need for companies like OnG, banking, trading, manufacturing etc to keep a big team of dev.

Have to go overseas lo, high level jobscope like this for growth very rare in malaysia even for MNCs lol. Got one time long ago i considered checking out a "data analyst" job offer in malaysia pay was around RM11k but the job is not really data analytics lol. Just some basic powerbi stuff with excel macros .....if sit in this role sure become dead end and no career progression.

The niche skills you can find in malaysia that pays well are pretty useless outside as well... like cobol which are a time bomb to be made redundant.

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Oct 7 2021, 09:53 PM

if im not mistaken, SG actually have no tier 4 datacenter as well because of the proximities to all the civilian and military airports on the island haha. But their infrastructure and political stability made up for it.

yeap basically solution architects, system architects and system analysts fall into this scope haha. Ayam actually working as one and basically this role kinda require one to know about a little bit for almost everything so you can propose the best solution and then lead a team, find outsourced vendors and sometimes even go solo to solve the business problem from scratch.... and by solutions, it can be anything lol so it's really endless self study but it's pretty fun if youre passionate about tech.

the term "full stack" become downgraded alot actually, thanks to all the PaaS (platform as a solution) providers that dev now no longer need to understand the infra. all they need is subscribe to one such as AWS ECS, get their command line interface, setup AWS dynamoDB, unpack all the dependencies from there, setup git and Wala!! To be fair all these are the minimum requirement nowadays for a dev... so basically "fullstack" now becomes a minimum requirement.
young dev nowadays dont even need to crack head on setting up the application servers, database servers, network, load balancers and dont even need to set maintenance jobs like image backup of redundancy mirroring lol the PaaS gawtim everything already. So many dev I come across nowadays dont even know how to use powershell or console.

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Oct 8 2021, 12:07 AM

vietnam nice place... got sent there to setup an ERP solution for a company branch there at saigon... food and beer really hnghhh. Sadly never got to go Hanoi... I heard their winter is like HK/TW... damn nice.