Originally Posted by Unregistered

I work at shopee. I can tell you the truth is that sinkies are hired to meet the quota for hiring foreigners.

The recruiters are also told to grab as many resume as possible of singaporeans and slot them into roles which are reserved for their mainland counterparts. So that they can convince mycareersfuture/MoM authorities that they have tried to hire locals for the role but cannot make it and hence they have to hire a foreigner. This is why shopee recruiters always private message or add people on linkedin, then after sending them your resume you wont get a reply after that.

In the past they would still follow up with 1 interview. But nowadays they just drop that completely.