NCS (SingTel subsidiary)

[Soangeli]

Originally Posted by bcrdukes

Speaking as a production support manager, if you haven't moved into a support role before, it would be good to round out your skillsets in spending some time in a production support/maintenance role for a short period.

Depending on the organization you work in, and the current and future affairs of your organization, it's good to have a support/maintenance skillset as the world of development moves into DevOps. So if you are doing only waterfall development, and that's not going to change in the next two to three years, you may want to consider moving on, but that depends on where you are in life, your age, circumstances etc. If you work in a world of hybrid development styles (WAgile/Watergile?) it's certainly worth evaluating. In my organization, production support/maintenance has the most power and influence. In a lot of other organizations, it's the other way around, but that depends on your Agile/DevOps roadmap and maturity.

I have a few developers in my team who moved into a production support/maintenance role, and for them, they were much more appreciative of the development and support process, particularly when we are on a path to move towards DevOps. Some food for thought.

First of all, thank you for the advice! I’m a local uni grad and earn up 4.2k in NCS now.. basically you have mention exactly what I’m afraid of... It’s more about the working circumstances or says the culture..

I’m under the waterfall development and everything is still kind of ok when it is about to get the code done.. The case is I’m afraid of once heading into maintenance then my colleagues with same level also including me will face a very tough challenge as we having a kind of political team lead who show dick face to all of us but be nice nice to higher rank.. can say the good thing here is our batch and our pm very supportive.. so I’m really confused about if I should move on alr..

[bcrdukes]

Originally Posted by Soangeli

First of all, thank you for the advice! I’m a local uni grad and earn up 4.2k in NCS now.. basically you have mention exactly what I’m afraid of... It’s more about the working circumstances or says the culture..

I’m under the waterfall development and everything is still kind of ok when it is about to get the code done.. The case is I’m afraid of once heading into maintenance then my colleagues with same level also including me will face a very tough challenge as we having a kind of political team lead who show dick face to all of us but be nice nice to higher rank.. can say the good thing here is our batch and our pm very supportive.. so I’m really confused about if I should move on alr..

I can't speak for your salary (as I am not a local Singaporean, and exploring Singapore as the next place for me to move my career to) but I am of the opinion who you work with and for can make and/or break your career. If it means leaving this team and making a few hundred dollars less, but knowing your team lead/management team will take care of you through and through, it's a judgement call for you to make. Right or wrong, that's for you to decide and to judge. Hope that helps.

[Soangeli]

Originally Posted by bcrdukes

I can't speak for your salary (as I am not a local Singaporean, and exploring Singapore as the next place for me to move my career to) but I am of the opinion who you work with and for can make and/or break your career. If it means leaving this team and making a few hundred dollars less, but knowing your team lead/management team will take care of you through and through, it's a judgement call for you to make. Right or wrong, that's for you to decide and to judge. Hope that helps.

Yup I do feel like it’s not about few hundred bucks but mostly for my career development.. Maybe it’s about time to plan for leaving.. After all I’m not good at tai chi and complement all this kind of stuff..

Thank you

Anybody working as communication engineer nucleus program? I got an interview opportunity for that role. Mind to share the job description? Thank you.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Anybody working as communication engineer nucleus program? I got an interview opportunity for that role. Mind to share the job description? Thank you.

Not bad and quite slack plus high pay for fresh grad .

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Not bad and quite slack plus high pay for fresh grad .

Hi, do you know how long is the processing time after the interview? I am quite interested in this job.

[kothi]

Anyone please please guide me on this....I Got an offer with NCS $6800 salary for the position Lead software engineer with P3 grade. I am asking for more salary, are they flexible enough to offere more salary?

I just wanted to check how does the promotion works in NCS ? Is it easy enough to get promoted as PM as I have 3 years of PM experince with overall 9 years of software expernce? After promotion how much will the salary differs?

[kothi]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi, do you know how long is the processing time after the interview? I am quite interested in this job.

Usually it depends, for me it took almost 2 months untill they come to final stage ...Singtel processing is very slow...

Originally Posted by kothi

Anyone please please guide me on this....I Got an offer with NCS $6800 salary for the position Lead software engineer with P3 grade. I am asking for more salary, are they flexible enough to offere more salary?

I just wanted to check how does the promotion works in NCS ? Is it easy enough to get promoted as PM as I have 3 years of PM experince with overall 9 years of software expernce? After promotion how much will the salary differs?

You can try to negotiate. Otherwise, go somewhere else.

Hi,

Anyone able to advice on the typical new hire employee benefits such as number of leaves?

Also how's the work culture like under system integration / big data team?

Thanks!