I was working short term at DPA and I just want to share my 2cents.

Just because some say that the company working experience and all is bad means it is fully bad. It really depends on who your team leader is. I worked for about 4 months and within that period of time managed to actually take away quite a lot from authority submissions to designing as well as meeting with clients and going on site walk to do last min decisions. During that 4 months I was also given a chance to design the facade of the buildings and issue the drawings out for construction right before I left the company. Passed by the other day and what I designed was somewhat up.

Just because an apple is rotten, it does not mean the whole tree is bad. It really depends on your luck who your peers are. But also maybe because I was just a temp staff, peers didn't see me as a threat so didn't got caught in office politics.

Now, in a dilemma if I want to spend that 300k to study overseas because nus doesn't want me. Just wanna share my experience while I was working there.