Working in Malaysian tech: pay bands, which companies are hiring, remote-first employers, layoffs, and moving between local firms, MNCs and overseas roles.
Real Agile is rare. Most teams do waterfall with daily standups and call it Agile. A few MNCs (especially tech product teams) do it properly. If a company says they're Agile, ask what their sprint cycle is.
More meetings, less coding. You're expected to mentor, not just deliver. Technical decisions have political dimensions. Good senior engineers learn to influence without authority.
Big tech and telco presence. Pay is fine. Traffic is brutal unless you live nearby. Lots of campus-style offices which is nice. MRT improvements helped. Wouldn't commute from Cheras though.
Threads about the Malaysian technology sector as an industry rather than about specific tools. That covers pay bands by seniority and how they compare to Singapore, which employers are actually hiring versus advertising, the difference in day-to-day work between a local product company, an MNC development centre and an outsourcing shop, and what happens to a tech CV after a layoff. Because tech shows up in eight of the twelve forum categories, these threads arrive from several directions — students choosing a degree, people mid-switch from finance or engineering, and developers comparing offers. If you want tool-level discussion instead, the tools and reviews category is the better starting point.
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