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Especially for IT, some big companies already offer 4k income to attract talents, I always expect salary for grad program should be higher than normal stream. |
My aim is at about 3.5-3.8k, I had startups offered me higher than that so far (4k range) but I wonder if I will lose the graduate development programme experience offered by the bigger coys if I choose salary over brand recognition and structured training process.
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The main problem with joining SP grad program is not the starting salary, but slow and poor future pay prospects compared to MAP in banks or top MNC management program.
In a lot of banking MAP, good performers can reach VP level within 5-6 years drawing >10k. In SP as an engineer or technology role, you will need to be at least DD level for few years to break the 10k mark and I doubt one can reach that sort of level in SP that fast even if you are the top performer every single year. Of course some will say money is not everything which I agree, but my advice is for those who are gunning for high flyer, rapid progression and pay increases, SP is not the place to go. SP main attraction is stability, job security and process structure driven. Depends on your character and goals. |
I went for the group discussion day, not sure what kind of technical competency they are looking for, but seems to me that they did not manage to attract enough good IT students for that day itself.
Reason is, prior to the interview, we were supposed to complete a programming test. Someone in my group did not even complete the test, I think he left the hardest part, and yet still got called for interview. The test was self-timed, probably not easy to get the most efficient answer but definitely not difficult to complete. Besides the last portion which was the hardest, other sections are really easy. I guess they did not have many applicants so just called these people in to fill the seats. |
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SP main attraction is stability (slow pace) and job security. I don't think these are the areas that strong IT people will be interested in. |
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When I went interview with SATS program the same thing happened as well. Poorly organized assessments, asking a lot of obvious misfits down just to make up the numbers, arrogant HR trying to upsell and then you can see them slowly downgrading expectation as the good ones all reject their offer. |
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Before going to the interview, I originally thought that Singapore Power is reinventing itself. After all last year they did manage to snatch some good talents according to the news s://.techinasia.com/paypal-engineering-director-joins-singapore-power s://.techinasia.com/singapore-power-sau-sheong But as I went to the group discussion interview, it is anything but that for new graduate hires. You might be better off applying as a full stack programmer directly than this iGrad program. The pre-interview assignment wise, they didn't make us agree to any NDA so... just a search on github (Singapore Power, SPgroup, SP Group) and you got your answers from others. I don't think they even evaluate your code honestly. More of a self-filter When I completed the assignment and notified the HR, she seem to be very concerned about what class of honours I get, which is kind of a red flag for me. I dislike such practices and usually avoid giving it unless it is really required. I hope they will learn from this and do a better one next year |
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