Hi there
I passed CFA L2 and know a bunch of people who finished MFE in
NTU.
This year only 2 grads from
NTU ends up in Front office job and both were exprienced people.
To get into banking, you can utilize your engineering skills. If your job is on IT system/programming/computer infrasturcture, it will be quite easy for you to get into back office IT.
If your aim is not IT, then it's going to be really really really hard. Unless you have great network or resource, you need to get descent MBA first. MFE in
NTU/CFA definitely won't help at all. Nowadays less and less people are needed in financial industry. People arlready inside the industry won't leave at time soon. There are tons of professionals waiting in the line.......
If I were you, I will probably try to goto an management role(perhaps you are a manager already) in the firm. Get a descent MBA(Insead, standford)....then you will have more choices, including becoming associate in IB.