May I ask what will be the future for a ITDS Service Analyst?
Recently just passed ITIL foundation, will be taking MS courses..

Got offer to join business development team, but would like to hear opinions from the crowd.

Job Title : Assistant Store Manager
Job Desciption : maximise customer service, maximise profit and staff development
Age : 28
Years spent in company :1 year
Company : MNC
Industry : retail fast fashion
Tenure : full time
Employment Level : manager level
Experience before joining (years) : 3 months in sales
Highest paper qualification/ education background :degree
Location : Malaysia, will keep on transfer from branch to branch
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 48 hours

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM6600
Contractual Bonus (months): mths
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : 1.5mths

Work Flexibility (where relevant) : no
Work From Home Availability: 0 days in a month
Annual Leaves: 16 days
Flexi Working Hours : No

Benefits (where relevant) : fast career growth but very pressure since they push you for promotion
Health Benefits : medical insurance
Transport Benefits : less than rm400 allowance
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : none
Other Benefits : house allowance, staff purchase.

High salary as fresh grad but salary still not enough since living in city and has to spend so much monwy on transportation. Hopefully can find anything that is at least got work from home and 7k salary. Work is quite stressful since working hours sometime very long up to 60 hours per week but depends on how busy it is. Working hours is by shift. Working 5 days a week. A lot of micromanagement since it is retail work. No flexibility at all i would say. Retail life is quite bad. I ask a lot of my friends who work in retail they say thee same thing

Thanks for sharing. Although it might be a contradiction but I actually don't like to deal with people and that is why I mostly go for technical path albeit I know at most point of the time, there is no way to avoid interacting with others..whether developers, stakeholders and managements. I just can't blow water as fluent as those managers that I know.

At the moment, I can see my next growth is to become an enterprise or data architect but I don't know what's beyond that.

No worries, everyone has their own preference, character and way of working. Just do what you capable of and focus

Hi all, I would like to hear some opinion/advice here especially from the high achievers in IT industry.

I'm currently taking around 20k as a senior architect in a MNC. The job and company is good but I feel like there's not much progress for the past few years. I used to be very motivated to climb the corporate ladder but lately I feel like I'm burning out. I also tried to start some businesses but not really doing well, I failed a few attempts and my current one is only getting 1-2k profits per month.

Should I continue to climb higher in the corporate or focus on building up my business? What is the salary ceiling for a solution architect in Malaysia?

Thanks in advance.

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This post has been edited by drumstix: Jun 2 2023, 06:56 PM

Being a solution architect myself and looking at resumes for architect I would say the ceiling is around 25k. Anything beyond that will require you to lead a team or being the HoD for architect department. Again, that is roughly the price based on what I observed over the past 6 years. There are a few different scenarios too:

- commission if you are able to sell a solution
- if you are an expat
- super high achievers

Work as private GP or what bro?

Aesthetic bro

Job Title : Technical Analyst
Job Description :
Age : 27
Years spent in company : ~3
Company : MNC
Industry :
Tenure : Full time
Employment Level : Professional
Experience (Total) : ~3
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Degree dropout
Location : Malaysia
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 45~50

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary : 16k myr
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : Depends

Benefits (where relevant) : Flexible
Health Benefits : In & outpatient
Other Benefits : Standard

I assume you don’t do software development? Are you more of a solution architect?

Yes, more to project management.

Malaysia where?

Very impressive for 1 year gap


Unfortunately... at the same time I also smell bs

This post has been edited by AhBoy~~: Apr 22 2023, 12:46 AM

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This post has been edited by stephanieKingsley: Dec 14 2023, 05:10 PM

Well if you see his post doesn’t really give much meaningful info, hmm janji dia puas hati lah..

Hello all, would like to update again this year as I’ve gotten a new opportunity last month.

My monthly gross salary in RM (not including allowances, only base) progression:
2016 (started in Dec): 3K
2017: 3.3K (confirmation) -> 3.6K
2018: 3.8K -> 6K (promotion)
2019: 6.5K
2020: 6.7K -> 8.1K (new job)
2021: 10K (new job)
2022: 16K (new job)
2023: 18K -> 24K (new job)

Recently join an MNC at KLCC area, they are one of the top 10 players in their industry. The role is mostly in management with little to no technical implementation. Not sure I’ll like it but no harm trying.

Let’s see how. Will update again if any changes in the near future.

Is your role still the same in this most recent move? I would assume you will have to take up some leadership aka management role with that pay.

Hi, my role is different now, the previous role is more technical.
My current role is in different industry and at end-user side now. Mostly dealing with business users and clients.

How many reporting to you?