LTA (Land Transport Authority)

Originally Posted by BountyHunter

Honestly the WOG is becoming very very toxic because there are too many incompetent old guards trying to protect their own turfs. They will even drive out and terminate young rising stars who threaten their positions because they know they don’t have the skills to go anywhere else with their Director pay.

What department you are referring to. I am in rail and everyone is quite capable

Originally Posted by Unregistered

What department you are referring to. I am in rail and everyone is quite capable

capable in terms of paper pushers. zero technical knowledge. just need to push contractors and ask dateline, when can be done and update management. if manage to push them, score point.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

capable in terms of paper pushers. zero technical knowledge. just need to push contractors and ask dateline, when can be done and update management. if manage to push them, score point.

Hahaha this is LTA Rail project team in summary. Many Senior project managers are just paper pushers, know how to package swee swee for the directors, but when it comes to technical knowledge, is zero and only know how to squeeze contractors timeline.

Many young engineers learn and do the same. In my few years here already seen the “can work” engineers leave as soon as they get an offer outside, leaving the paper pushers and power point experts

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hahaha this is LTA Rail project team in summary. Many Senior project managers are just paper pushers, know how to package swee swee for the directors, but when it comes to technical knowledge, is zero and only know how to squeeze contractors timeline.

Many young engineers learn and do the same. In my few years here already seen the “can work” engineers leave as soon as they get an offer outside, leaving the paper pushers and power point experts

remember the CCL signalling and rolling stock issue some years back? Whole LTA go and troubleshoot with vendors, logs taken but some top management was shocked almost whole LTA no one know how to read logs or decipher, had to throw to vendors. Whole Rail team throw face and end up need utilise DSTA engineers come in, read the logs and use algorithm to deduce it is certain rolling stock that is causing the issue. Really speaks about the capability of current crops of LTA, paper pusher with zero technical.

Last month went for meeting with LTA rail engineers, most of them regurgitating like robots the technical specs.

PMs will ask for time lines

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Last month went for meeting with LTA rail engineers, most of them regurgitating like robots the technical specs.

PMs will ask for time lines

lol your comment also reveal how stupid this forum is. Imagine these engineers don’t follow specs and follow whatever is convenient so that the meeting can end asap, would you dare to take the mrt LTA built?

This is not the worst. Had recent meeting with PCD, the engineers do not even seem to know what they are doing.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Last month went for meeting with LTA rail engineers, most of them
regurgitating like robots the technical specs.

PMs will ask for time lines

Any based in Little India HQ before? Is their working culture ok?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

lol your comment also reveal how stupid this forum is. Imagine these engineers don’t follow specs and follow whatever is convenient so that the meeting can end asap, would you dare to take the mrt LTA built?

Nothing wrong with following specs. But just that engineers in LTA don’t know their stuff. Many are just paper generals with no technical knowledge unlike contractors.

Many a times, the engineers don’t even know what the specs are saying. They will just play spot the difference and hammer the contractor

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Any based in Little India HQ before? Is their working culture ok?

Typical corporate environment, because it is not a site office, it’s usually a lot of paper work and meetings.

Generally nice environment and centralized location. But moving to Jurong in a few years