Why do I write this post?
Coming to Singapore is a big decision for me, and I gave up a lot for this. Record the consideration process can remind me what I’m coming for.
How do I evaluate a job?
- I evaluate a job by a list of dimensions (d1, d2, … dn)
- For each dimension, I set a weight value (w1, w2, … wn)
- For each job, give a score to each dimension (s1, s2, … sn)
- Calculate the score for one job (score = w1 * s1 + w2 * s2 + … + wn * sn)
- Choice the one that has the highest score
Which dimensions do I take into consideration?
- Salary - (Living Cost)
- Salary Increase Speed
- Rising Space
- Business Status
- Business Prospects
- Team Members
- Working Content
- Technical Autonomy
- Working Hours
- Welfare
- Risk
- Family
How to assign the weight value?
The importance of each dimension is varied for each person. To this model, a higher value should represent the better direction to compare the final score.
Some details
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Working overtime
The trend of working overtime in the domestic Internet industry is too serious. I was in Baidu in the past four years and worked overtime a lot. When I think about it carefully today, most of the overtime is meaningless. It damaged my body a lot.
- Competitive Differentiation
- China does not lack general computer talents. A lot of fresh graduates worked very hard. With accumulating experience two or three years, they can handle most of the basic tasks. A lot of China’s companies treat employees as labor.
- With the development of China and the growth of Chinese companies, they may need more talents with overseas work experience.
- Many foreign companies provide some good jobs in China, and they prefer candidates with overseas work experience.
- Space
- Southeast Asia’s Internet is growing rapidly.
- In China, the monopoly of Internet companies has taken shape.
- Personal
- I don’t want to do trivial tasks all days anymore.
- I want to struggle once more before getting old.
- I don’t want this to be the culmination of my life.
What’s my targets?
- As the growing space of basic salary is small for me, I need more time to think about my future and to find the start point of my own business.
- Contribute more to the open source community. I don’t like to be asked basic interview questions anymore.
- Be healthier by exercise
- Investment
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Improve the level of communication with English
This is my original intention. Some ideas may be wrong, and I can’t predict the result. But, I’ll try my best!