Thank you so much, I cannot access my email atm so can't check lol

it's 6 weeks right? first week in person orientation?

have those who said they can start in September received the onboarding email yet?

Starting in Sep too, but no on-boarding email except for the previous one weeks ago asking to provide additional documents.

This is true. Burn weekends

Does anybody know when will application open for 2023 SEED? it's already nearing the end of Q3..

Sadly this is true, I have heard horror stories in those departments.

Just got posted to MBFC on 3 oct... The email wrote to report in work attire that i am comfortable in. Can wear t shirt and long pants?

More comfortable if you wear pyjamas there

Are you posted there or just there for orientation?

Heard rumors that this program is closed and no longer open in 2023? Some of my friends who did hackathon early this year and passed but asked for Jan 2023 intake just got told that position is no longer available

seems like economy quite bad huh? shopee mass layoff, citibank closing branches overseas, FAANG companies also freeze hiring.

Stay safe guys. Tech market dying already.

Haha you are funny

Eh FAANG still hiring la bro

Only dbs seed closing cos all noobs mass hire also useless tats why lolol

Everyone going to citibank 6.5k program liao

Where is the link for the CITI Tech job application portal

Anyone else just applied for 2023 intake but havent received the link to the IQ/coding test?

Just got a template reply informing the application has been received

Tech is not dying la bro. Just consolidating. U think this world can operate without tech?

Anyone knows the date for the next TT hackathon?

Normally how many hackathons TT are there for each recruitment period?

Everything is true except the tech stack part. You're over exaggerating on that part but other than that yes, work life balance is non existence, most of the seeders are non tech idiots and retards like me from cs joined this because we were hoping we can finish task fast, spend the rest of our working time grinding LeetCode and finding better opportunities while getting paid.

Unfortunately that didn't work out. Most of us work like dogs, 9 to 9... Burn weekends.

I don't fking know for what. You finish ur tasks also they just assign you more from backlog. All these CONTRACT devs can't do their work so they pass to us seeders.

Their whole pipeline process is a mess. CI CD always failing.

Remember their app going down? No surprise lol their code base looks like it was written by 100 different people. Same code file can have 5 different styling and variable naming abuse. Some camel case, some all caps, some written like this "var1" "var2" ...

Wow... Many of my friends are also seeing the same thing in their team.

I finally understand why people talk so much trash about this program. I thought they were trolling... Sian I only wish I believed these people back then. Too late for regrets.

Why are they recruiting so many seeders? Just curious

i dunno about now but last time my 2020 batch of 120+ ppl, 70+ quit after first year cos no bonus or pay inc or shag work life... we made a teams chat for our batch then slowly see a few by a few become "inactive" and removes from chat lol

2023 intake
 

Anyone applied for the 2023 jan intake and received the link to the IQ test / tech test alrdy? Applied last week but still havent received the link

ya just got mine yesterday noonish, i applied last friday night

its some jim bot right?

Hi based on yr experience, how many seeders stay after the two-year program?

i think quite few, maybe 10+ people?

the rest all go join other banks as associate and get higher pay

Thank you 😊

No link from JIM bot
 

Huh legit ah? I still havent received any followup since the acknowledgement email. Do you mind sharing with me your ‘submission’ status on taleo? Mine is still at ‘Resume Acknowledged’

Same.. applied on sat, still no response....

I actually applied on friday so one day before you😂 if everyone else hasn’t received the link to the tests then i think we can relax abit but if other ppl start receiving alrdy then things are not looking good

I have emailed the dbs staff and they said the application process has changed, give them 2 weeks to follow up from initial application.

Maybe they send everyone the test link anymore🥹

Hmm I applied last Monday and got the DBS Career acknowledgement email saying 2 weeks also but yesterday I got my online test tho..

Can anyone help me? hahah I see the hackerrank got 2 coding questions, 2 MCQ and 1 bonus, quite scared, I haven't click begin yet.

What are the other reasons so few seeders stay after two years?

I'm not OP but I know a few school alumnis who stayed after 2 years, met them during a school event and they basically told me they stayed because they were lucky to be in a small LOBT team that basically works 9 to 5PM, no OT, fairly high bonus and incredibly laxed work. ( Mostly just building PoCs and maintaining servers )

They were also able to go from SEED to Associate (2 years) to Senior Associate (8 months) then AVP after 1-2 years thereafter.

Quite fast progression, their pay progression is like this:

5k as SEEDer ( 1st year )
6.5k as associate ( after 2 years of SEED )
8.0k as senior associate ( 8 months after completing SEED )
9.6k as AVP ( 1-2 years after holding SA role )

OF course this is not for everyone so if you're unlucky then you'll leave. Every company has this anyway, it's not DBS exclusive. FAANG also, some people become Senior SWE within 2 years while others are still SWE 2 after 4 years.

Has anybody still not received the jim bot exercise?

i applied on sat as well, till now still at 'resume acknowledged'

nope, i applied on 1 oct. now going 2nd week le still no response from them.

Have you received?

SEED application update
 

Previously applied on 30/9/2022 but until now still not contacted by the bot to provide me with the resources to take the technical / iq test.

Anyone else in a similar situation?

me too. When I applied for last year's (2022) recruitment drive, i received the bot link within a day, but for 2023 intake, it's been two weeks with no response

Any updates about your application?

No update, on taleo is still resume acknowledged. Did you/anybody else receive any updates?

when did you apply? did you try to email them for follow up?