is public sector good for fresh grad?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The truth is that it doesn't apply to all, maybe around 60-70% of public sector is like that. The other 30-40% are doing industry leading work that is well sought after in the public sector as well.

There are not many public sector companies that one thinks of when you mention their work as industry leading. Shall we get down to which public companies are in this group? I share what I know well because I genuinely wish to find out who to look out for.

Disclaimer: Let's not confuse industry leading with meaningful. I believe the upkeep of Singapore's economy depends on the public sector. But that's entirely different to being at the forefront like where Google is.

For industry leading, I would think of GIC, Temasek, AStar. That's it!
GIC: They're starting a systematic trading group since last year. It doesn't take much to see the masses of quantitative analysts they're hiring on their careers page. Btw, systematic trading started like 20 years ago, matured about 7 years ago. Hardly industry leading but I'll put them here since they're setting something new up.

I know from trusted sources that these companies do NOT do industry leading work - MAS, EDB, IE.
MAS: Many policy setting, lots of processes, letter writing, presentation to ministries.
EDB, IE: They're not profit driven and the decisions they make on supporting local or overseas companies do not go to their PnL, thus the lack of drive to do insightful work by their managers.

I'm welcome any corrections. I'm just someone wanting to know how impactful is the work of public companies.