Inside knowledge on culture, hiring bars, and what it's really like to work there.
I graduated from NUS in December and started applying for marketing roles in January. My lecturer told me the going rate for a fresh grad in marketing was around SGD 4,000 to 4,500. So when I got to the offer stage with a mid-sized agency in Tanjong...
I was a Regional Head of Operations for a European bank in Hong Kong. Fourteen years. Good performance reviews, decent relationships, the lot. Then in March they restructured the Asia desk and my role was "consolidated" into a global function...
I moved from Jakarta to Singapore two years ago. My husband got transferred and I was looking for finance roles here. Back home I was a Senior Accountant at a manufacturing company, so I thought it would be quite straightforward to find something...
I spent four years at a GLC. I won't name which one but if you've lived in Singapore you can probably narrow it down. I left last year for a private sector role and the contrast is... significant. ## The good Job security. Genuinely...
I had offers from two companies. One was a FAANG company — you can probably guess which one based in Singapore. L5 role, solid TC, all the usual perks. The other was a 40-person fintech that had just raised Series A. I took the startup. My...