Hi folks, need to hear your feedback on my career pathway.
Currently 28, M, will be 29 next year and officially 5th year into this Semiconductor Industry, with my EEE degree back in 2021...

Currently kind of been stagnant, hopeless with my career, and its bottleneck in my current company.
Initially, joined famous CPU Blue Company as Graduate Trainee at aged 24 - as a Post Silicon Functional Validation engineer in Q2 2021, salary was RM 3,300.

Then 2022, company revised to RM 4k as Graduate Trainee, up until my 1 year contract at May 2022.
Dumbo me, decided to join back the company into another Business Unit, as a "Analog Circuit Design Engineer" at RM 4.24k @ 6% increase. Instead of finding job opportunities in Singapore.

In 2024, after stuck with near 2 years of RM 4.24k, throughout the 3+ years within the Department, been waiting to get laid off or getting a package. But sadly didn't happened so much.

Then manager, finally manage to promoted me to Grade 5, my salary jumped from RM4.24k to RM 5.126K (about 20.9% increase) but tbh, I feel abit low since the company didn't not gave annual increament for the 2 years in 2023 and 2024.

Start of the year 2025, everyone ganed a 10% increase in , then after 3.5% increase after perfomrance review in April.

Effectively, my currently base salary is RM 5,836.14 @ Grade 5 to current date.

Currently I am comtemplating continuing this career in Semiconductor Field, if my Salary is this low compared to what everyday Malaysia advertising this career to be "highly paid".

Also I've been struggling for ~4 years being here in this department, as I feel I am only able to basic "bounded" box things, and didn't really gained any new skills throughout my time being in my department...

Everything is quite restricted, otherwise above my "paygrade" or limited by my knowledge gap in Analog Circuits. Want to proceed further, but the task assigned to me is too time consuming and doesn't really provide any valuable growth. Until I don't have motivation to proceed onwards... Also company resources are getting more restricted.

I wanted to try jumping to Singapore's Semiconductor, atleast the pay is better. But I'm not sure they willing to hire me at what role

Otherwise, is stuck in this company, until other company is offering better pay and proper guidance and training.

Was thinking to getting a Masters in Microelectronics, but hardly have Masters Degree which only offers coursework without Thesis work...
But not sure how much value this could really help to upskill me.

Worst case, if totally do a career change, and explore Software programming role.

why not jump to AMX ?
if so many years you are stagnant there mean
1. your department lack of opportunity
2. your manager not doing good job
3. you are not competent with what you are doing.

consider jump or change your field

This post has been edited by ahchun: Yesterday, 08:35 PM

Go apply singapore job
High pay.