IMDA (under MCI)

Originally Posted by Unregistered

As someone who is joining IMDA soon, the comments here are not encouraging lol.

you should do your research before joining, glassdoor is as worse. good luck!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Means that the work is nothing niche and anyone with some "general management" knowledge also can do. Sounds like the work is more administrative and bureaucratic than media/telco related.

Which really isn't the case. There are many depts where you will need specialist understanding to work on, or at least very industry-specific knowledge (E.g. SMEs go Digital, E-Invoicing, Telco/Internet policy teams).

There are **some** which may be more general management but even those still require a good understanding of the industry they've been assigned to.

The point though is that the place is bleeding talent and burning out folks and it's now toxic af and it starts from one man.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

you should do your research before joining, glassdoor is as worse. good luck!

I ever posted some hard truths on glassdoor but my post kena removed

Sounds bad. But if salary is high and not much work to do, it'd be a good retirement home for those in their late 40s and 50s.

Anyone can share the working style and culture in Strat Cap Devt?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Sounds bad. But if salary is high and not much work to do, it'd be a good retirement home for those in their late 40s and 50s.

Among the various age groups, i'd say the most behkan are those in late 40s to 50s. Precisely becos they switched to semi-retirement mode. Just conform and comply to every single shiit. Such pathetic lives they chose to lead

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Which really isn't the case. There are many depts where you will need specialist understanding to work on, or at least very industry-specific knowledge (E.g. SMEs go Digital, E-Invoicing, Telco/Internet policy teams).

There are **some** which may be more general management but even those still require a good understanding of the industry they've been assigned to.

The point though is that the place is bleeding talent and burning out folks and it's now toxic af and it starts from one man.

There are **some** which may be more general management

There's a shiitload of generalists without ICT background in my division. Makes me wonder why do we even need to hire degree holders in the first place when ITE grads who studied ICT would be a better fit.

Originally Posted by Unregistered Soul

If anyone is considering DISG in IMDA, be warned the incoming Dir (S.S.) is a pretty awful person to work under...unclear directions that gives staff a headache, roti prata queen, highly insecure, loves her image, prone to empress-y tantrums when things go wrong, self-centered, plays favourites (typically, those of the male gender are disqualified)...the funniest thing is she acts as though she has the staff's interest at heart...

A couple of feedbacks I got of this Dir, and they were that she doesn’t care your opinions, just do whatever she has set her mind to, so good luck if your opinions are against or not aligned to hers even if you have info or data backing your opinions. She has no sound technology knowledge, and she lack the ability of learning... her way of getting by is: if you cannot convince people, confuse them.

So she will just up string up words and terms to appear smart, but doesn’t make sense to the know-how experts and specialists. As a result, her staff has to keep modifying presentation files, up to 20plus iterations and working overnight and over weekends so that she feels impressive enough. Oh, heard she doesn’t present herself too cause according to her, she wants to give exposure opportunity to her staff to management and external parties.

Hi! anyone can share about working in imda Corporate group? pls share your valuable advice. tia!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi! anyone can share about working in imda Corporate group? pls share your valuable advice. tia!

Which part of Corporate group are you referring to?