07-02-2013 09:39 AM | ||
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The problem with many local IT people is not about travelling. Its the fact that many of them find non-IT things like dealing with subordinates, playing politics, networking with business, making boss happy etc. beneath their stature and simply refuse to take part in it. They think that just by being hardworking and technically sound in their knowledge will help them. End result is many FT who are more multi-faceted and do all those softer side things end up promoted and become the manager of the locals even though their IT skills are way below the locals. These FT managers then boot out the locals and hire their nationalities while the locals end up kpkb about how come their technical skill so zhai still end up outsmarted by FT. I have many friends doing IT facing the same predicament. I explain the problem to them and urge them to work on these non-IT areas to out manuvere the FTs, most will just go on hyper defensive mode and tell me how great their IT skills are and simply refuse to adapt to the environment. |
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06-02-2013 10:28 PM | ||
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IT industry pay is always not bad. Been in IT for many years. In networking field. Actually Locals are better in networking. Not FTs. Very few FTs are good. But locals prefer family life so its hard to progress too very far. To progress far like in management role, you need to travel like hell. So its either money or family. Thats why many ang mos held high position because they dont mind traveling or stationed in foreign land. Anyway thats their culture. For locals, divorce already lo. if not confirm not close to spouse. Want to earn alot..be a scholar and join gov.. like minister...confirm high pay or MP. |
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06-02-2013 03:00 PM | ||
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Exactly, I worked with a few indian/sri lanka phd students, their programming is so bloody efficient i duno how to kp... and programmers are paid like 2k(firmware c, c++,) 3k(c++, java, js, php), 4k(ror, sql, joomla/drupal) locals. Indian programmers take 700lesser, and they are probably a lot better. |
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04-02-2013 02:48 PM | ||
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03-01-2013 03:23 PM | ||
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deep industry and technical skills are expected, but without the other skills it's difficult to move up to senior roles like sales director, IT director and program director which pays $200K-$400K. |
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03-01-2013 03:02 PM | ||
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Good news: You can communicate better and learn faster than those normal coders. As you gain more expertises in more areas like infras, apps etc, you can move on to enterprise architect (EA) roles that easily command >$100K+. See IDA Infocomm Talent Portal |
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03-01-2013 01:18 AM | ||
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17-12-2012 08:53 AM | ||
Unregistered | No way. I hired programmers before. 5 yr exp, i pay only 2.8k pm. Locals won't do it. I get from vietnam. They're very good. Locals, however, can liase with customers better, and also better at doing solution architecture work. Even then, I only paid them mid 3k plus . | |
16-12-2012 10:41 PM | ||
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16-12-2012 09:12 PM | ||
Unregistered | if you like programming, you can do programming. the pay can easily hit 100,000 a year.. | |
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