Recommend all who are lurking on this thread to give this post a read: ://elijames.org/the-two-tiers-of-singapores-tech-companies/ (This was written in 2017 and i think the author would be glad to know the scene now COULD NOT BE MORE DIFFERENT - last time fresh grad SWE 4.5k lol)

Anyway - a core part of the article is that there are good tier and bad tier tech companies in SG. If your company is responsible for projects that clients see no value in developing in house aka cost centers, well ill leave you to figure out which tier youre in. (I think you can also figure out which tier acn is in) Meanwhile on the other side of the equation, companies really fight tooth and nail and pay TOP dollar to attract their talents simply because they are seen as the money makers.

And suddenly alot of what this thread is saying is put into context and makes a ton of sense and you should be looking to exit to a good tier next.