Originally Posted by CorgiHamster

1. Ideally, I am aiming for at least 5k starting salary. For an undergrad, I have considerably good experience with tech (non SWE roles and several interviewers have been very impressed by my resume and tech knowledge for a non IT related degree. Still engineering though just not the exact domain)
so I just hope to be able to get a good starting salary based on my skills and organizations like DSO,DSTA,GovTech,HTX pay >5k starting salary hence the choices

2. Most deep tech companies are SMEs and they dont pay well though they do really interesting work.

3. I don't qualify for FAANG, Shopee sort of organizations because *I think I suck at technical assessments*. Not from com sci or com eng. I do some coding practices every now and then but definitely not good enough for top paying companies like FAANG. Also, they don't really focus much on the roles (not SWE) I am interested in so....