1st Job
Job Title : Site Reliability Engineer
Job Desciption :
Age : 21
Years spent in company : 1 years
Company : Private (Have office in Singapore, Indonesia and India)
Industry : FinTech
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Junior
Experience before joining (years) : 0
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Matriculation (some uni before dropping out)
Location : Bangsar South, KL (hybrid; can work at home or office at will)
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 45 hours (9AM-6PM, sometime oncall 3AM-5AM)

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM 4700
Contractual Bonus (months): N/A
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : N/A (quit before bonus)

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : Medical, dental, life insurance
Transport Benefits : N/A
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : Mobile & Laptop (RM 200)
Flexi Working Hours : No
Other Benefits : RM 150 monthly e-wallet

2nd Job
Job Title : Release Automation Engineer (DevOps Engineer)
Job Description :
Age : 22
Years spent in company : 0 years (will start this 20th Sep)
Company : MNC
Industry : Marketing Technologies
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Mid-level
Experience before joining (years) : 1
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Matriculation (some uni before dropping out)
Location : Cyberjaya, Selangor (hybrid; can work at home or office at will)
Average Working Hours Per Week (incl lunch hours): 42.5 hours (Expected)

Monetary Payout
Basic Salary + Fixed Allowance : RM 7500
Contractual Bonus (months): N/a
Performance, Variable Bonus & Commissions (months) : 10% of annual salary

Benefits (where relevant) :
Health Benefits : Medical
Transport Benefits : Transport allowance (RM 500)
Mobile / Internet / Gadget Benefits : N/A
Flexi Working Hours : Yes

I guess I'm very fortunate for this one. I ask for RM6.1k, which is 30% increase from my first salary in hope that it will be reduced to 15%-20% increase salary (common advise that I heard) but got offered RM7.5k instead (which is very surprising to me).

Yes, I don't have a degree but I self-taught myself and have AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate and Kubernetes Certified Administrator. I think I'm doing very well during interview and able to answer all technical questions confidently and they don't mind at all that I didn't finish a degree yet (degree not a requirement for this job, which is become more common right now for tech jobs as long as you can prove that you able to do the job).

I see a lot of DevOps/SRE/Software Development job right now which don't require CS undergraduate. My current employer also don't mind at all that I didn't finish my degree. In my situation I do a lot of self-learning regarding CI/CD, IaC, Cloud Computing, monitoring systems to name a few (which are not covered in most of the CS undergraduate in Malaysia) with basic like programming, networking, security and OS already learned during undergraduate before dropping out. It's also common to meet other people coming from unrelated undergraduate major and working in the tech job with self-learning. As long as you prove that you have the skills required and self-driven, I think that should be fine. It could also be because my current company is based in USA where self-taught and bootcamp are much more acceptable than in Malaysia.