Retrenchment in Risk Dept, Singapore. Toxic working environment. Work-life balance is really bad. Office politics are rampant.
Think twice before joining the Risk and Compliance department.
Managers don't assess or evaluate engineers on how they are able to accomplish tasks, but on what you can add extra that will benefit the company. Management prefers a talkative/noisy employee that can showcase everything to stakeholders. If you're the type of engineer that keeps the work done without talking too much, then you're in danger at year-end assessment. (A lot of good employees have gone because of this).
Work-life balance sucks. Some employees spend a lot of time in the office until evening and expect weekend overtime.
Discussed professional background, key achievements, and problem-solving approach. Evaluated communication clarity, adaptability, and alignment with organizational values. Concluded with assessment of analytical depth, decision-making rationale, an
Technical Interview Asked about a medium LeetCode question involving binary search. Asked to design a system: high-level design of an LLM prompting system, with follow-up questions about how to improve it.
There were two technical rounds. Each round involved about 1-2 medium LeetCode questions in Java, relevant to my job position. The questions focused on stacks/arrays and Object-Oriented Programming. It wasn't too hard if you're focused.
Discussed professional background, key achievements, and problem-solving approach. Evaluated communication clarity, adaptability, and alignment with organizational values. Concluded with assessment of analytical depth, decision-making rationale, an
Technical Interview Asked about a medium LeetCode question involving binary search. Asked to design a system: high-level design of an LLM prompting system, with follow-up questions about how to improve it.
There were two technical rounds. Each round involved about 1-2 medium LeetCode questions in Java, relevant to my job position. The questions focused on stacks/arrays and Object-Oriented Programming. It wasn't too hard if you're focused.