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Should i buy airpods pro or should i wait?

noahwj — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 17:42:18 +0800

Hey guys, so i have been wanting to buy a wireless ear buds for a long time now and today since its LAZADA birthday i am getting lots of discount for Airpods pro. I am looking to use it for daily activities eg: for work, workout, music and watching videos. Is it a good deal or i should just wait for the next gen?

ps: i am new to wireless ear buds and the reviews that i saw are quite mixed.

Work from home

noahwj — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:15:42 +0800

How much do you guys dress up if you are working from home? Do you guys style your hair and wear office attire or just cincai t-shirt hair no styling like that?

Anyone work in Uniqlo corporate before?

noahwj — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 17:50:40 +0800

Asking for a friend anyone work in Uniqlo corporate before? Not their retail store but the corporate office in bandar utama. Anyone work there before? can share your experience how was the working environment, colleagues and the boss over there?

Foodpanda commission & fees

noahwj — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 18:13:03 +0800

Anyone know the commission rate of becoming a foodpanda merchant. Are there any other fees or hidden fees?

Just some thought on IT jobs

noahwj — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 23:31:29 +0800

Nowadays saw a lot of job ads for IT jobs but from what I can say working as a programmer is very shitty. I do know some large company treat programmer/IT professionals well but holy cow most of the other smaller companies treat them as slave. Some people will say IT graduates starting pay is high that's what I thought at first but after going through it myself, I will say don't judge a book by its cover. Some companies when interview will say your job scope is only coding/programming only but when you start working you will get asked to meet clients, provide customer support and etc which are not included in your job scope.

And another scam that you shouldn't believe is that when those companies say they provide WORK-LIFE BALANCE. Let me say there is no work life balance in this field, well not in Malaysia at least. When they tell you they provide work life balance what they mean is that you will have to work at home during whatever day or time it is, be it public holiday, weekends, on leave, vacation, when you are sleeping in the middle of the night or even your family member's funeral. That is what they meant when they tell you they provide WORK-LIFE BALANCE. I think they should call it NO-LIFE BALANCE better.

Another thing is your health, please before you decide to work in this field especially as a programmer/software developer do know that your health will get worse and worse. One of my friend working as a programmer got admitted to a hospital of working OT all the time and get fatigue and even get diagnosed with some stomach problem because eating irregularly and staying up all night. Some employers will not care about you whether you are having your lunch/dinner or whether you are asleep. They will just keep bothering you with some silly questions that they have answer to it. There was one instances where I got woke up in 3am in the morning just to fix a line of codes that my boss wrote which is written wrongly .

I am writing this so that other people know that this could happen to them. You can say I am unlucky but let me tell you a lot of my friends also share similar experiences. If you want to enter this field especially as a programmer/software developer, please be prepared to face all this dumb and shitty situations if not don't join . But luckily I am out of this field now and I couldn't feel more happier . Thanks for reading my small rant

Hypptv not working

noahwj — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:28:32 +0800

Anyone know how to fix this problem? I am using STB-HUAWEI-EC6106V5-TM

Wisdom tooth extract injection very painful?

noahwj — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 20:36:53 +0800

How painful is the injection to remove bottom wisdom tooth? And need how many shots?

Wisdom tooth extraction

noahwj — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 00:44:18 +0800

I have bad experiences going to the dentist but i think i will have to remove my partial impacted wisdom tooth at the bottom left of my teeth. I am afraid of dentist what should i know about the procedure?

Anyone working in Hong Leong Assurance HQ in PJ

noahwj — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:06:55 +0800

How the working environment there?

Anyone worked in ITA Asia Limited?

noahwj — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 10:17:53 +0800

Anyone worked in ITA Asia Limited? Is it a good company?

Feeling overwhelmed at my new job

noahwj — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 08:41:06 +0800

So i have started my new job as software engineer since monday and i am feeling very overwhelmed by it. This is not my first job but this is the first i felt this kind of emotion and I dont know what to about it.

I was assigned 5 tasks to me on my first day of work and i was told that i have to deliver it by friday as the tasks was actually some other guy’s tasks but they fired him last week. So i was told to take over his tasks. The things that the company is working on is very new to me and how the company operates is very different from other software engineer job for example they do their testing differently etc. I did brought my work back home to do it but i found myself worry about coding standards that the company set and there is barely any progress

Now i am left with 2 days before the presentation and I dont think i will be able to finish it planning, verifying the previous guy work, coding and testing for the remaining tasks. I have asked for more time from my senior but he quickly rejected it stating the tasks is easy. So do I talk to my hiring manager now cause I am very spooked and worried about the consequences?

Is my boss asking too much?

noahwj — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 16:41:53 +0800

Hey guys, so i just joined a start up fintech company 3 weeks ago as a junior programmer. So far my working experience there is not good because of bad planning, bad coding and bad structure in the project they are doing. There are no senior programmers there to oversee and monitor the project and the project is handled by my CTO who has not much technical programming skill and 2 junior programmers before I joined the company.

So for the past 2 weeks, I found out that my CTO aka my boss always like to assign task last minute and ask the team to complete it during the weekend. For example, he will ask/inform us to fix a new bug or add new features for the project on friday evening and say that we will have to complete it over the weekend as the due date is Monday. I know as a programmer sometimes I will need to work in the weekend if there are emergency issues but do I have to really give up my weekend for my job?

Because during weekend I have other commitments for example I am taking Japanese language course on Saturday or maybe sometimes I am going to attend some talks or workshops. The company also did not compensate us programmer for working in the weekend even though they say if you work in the weekend I can get a replacement holiday but some of colleagues say most of the time they did not get the approval for replacement holiday from the CTO. I even told my boss during my interview with him that I have other commitments in the weekend. But I am getting a negative reaction out of him when I told him yesterday that I cant complete it during the weekend and he even ask me to quit my studies and stop attending for talks in the weekend. How should I deal with this?

P.S: This is my second job, my previous job OT is super rare (once in 2 years) so I am not familiar on dealing with this problem.

Should I talk to my boss?

noahwj — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 22:12:37 +0800

So I started my new job with a new startup company and I was given the chance to look at their current project. They were developing a business solution using a PHP framework but when I took a look at their code, all I saw was very raw PHP coding and they did not utilize the functionality that comes with the framework. Both the PHP team and the manager do not know much about the framework.

So for the past 2 days, my manager had conducted meetings with the PHP team to discuss some security issues for the project and my manager had asked me whether I can fixed it since I have the most knowledge about the framework. I did managed to fix the security issues easily(thanks to the framework ) but today in another meeting they thought about another problem and ask me to fix it but because the PHP team did not utilize the framework (if it is utilize well, can fix it within 20 minutes) it is very very hard to code it and I am not good at using raw PHP coding and they want it ASAP.

The project is a large scale project and already went live. I am also not clear what is the flow of the project as the coding of the project is very very messy (nightmare to read) and i just join the company for 4 days. So should I tell my manager that I am not able to do it on time? Or any other suggestions how to face this problem?

Work Life Balance in IT field

noahwj — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:50:46 +0800

How would you rate and what is your experiences in the work life balance in IT field?

PHP coding test for job interview

noahwj — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:35:38 +0800

I am going for a job interview next week and there are PHP coding test in the interview. The interview is for a junior programmer position.

May I know how much php i need to know so that i will not do badly in the test as this is my first time in taking this kind of test? Can i go online to get references during the test?

Coding test or (Any skill test)

noahwj — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 18:09:17 +0800

Does coding test or any skill test really important for a company to determine which candidate to hire?

A lot of my friends failed these kind of test when they attend a job interview and the company did not hire them but when they went to an interview with no test they often received a job offer. One of my friend ask his manager why he did not test his coding/programming skill during the interview, his manager said he knew his skill was fine without testing him. Even my current boss also gave me the same answers.

I think a lot of companies that included skill test in an interview always miss out very high potential candidate for the job and I dont think they should take the test results as the main indication to see if they should hire a candidate or not. What you guys think about skill test?

Leaving office on time on the first day of new job

noahwj — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 16:53:59 +0800

Is it appropriate to leave on time on the first day of a new job?

Company Trips

noahwj — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:37:40 +0800

Has anyone decided not to attend your company trips? Or is it a must to attend it? Will it be disrespectful for not going?

ICLS intensive japanese course

noahwj — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:53:37 +0800

Anyone took ICLS Japanese Intensive Course (weekday Monday to Friday) before? How hard or tough is the course?

Part time jobs at Exhibition & Expo (KL region)

noahwj — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 14:35:41 +0800

Where can I find jobs for those weekend exhibition and expo in KL eg: Edu fair, Comic Fiesta and etc.? Feel kind of bored during weekends staying at home but I do not know where can I search for these jobs. Anyone know any websites, links or group for these kind of stuffs?