Pros
- Good office location, convenient transportation - Good onboarding package, especially for undergraduates and foreigners (Oversea training, Reallocation etc.) - Decent and smart juniors - Some teams in New York are really good. They are driving the revolution and building awesome software (but not Singapore). - Free pluralsight/egghead.io/safarionline accounts. So you can access your favorite channel to learn latest technologies.
Cons
- It's not uncommon you realize people around in Technology are not technical. There are good and passionate engineers in the firm but I personally met more associates/managers who are quite weak in technology and super outdated. If you are pursuing a technical career path to polish up your skills, I'd personally say it's not a right choice for you here. - Your skills will be highly limited by all those internal platforms/tools/programming languages which are built internally. Most of them are wrappers on top of open-source projects and the internal tools/languages are lack of documents and support. It's really the most annoying part. You will become a task-executor but not an innovator. - You will get mad by support tasks. Those slack contractors won't help you much and eventually, chances are that you need deal with support tasks by yourself. - When you have lots of non-technical managers who talk a lot of sh*t during meetings/calls but doesn't know much about code, you feel tired and your fancy applications and projects won't make you stand out easily because they don't even understand what you have saved for them and what you are doing about.