CS new grad -- bored to the max and want to leave!
Pros
Nice benefits - gym membership, free limited gym access, provident funds, stock option, health insurance etc. Good colleagues - they are very warm and welcome.
Cons
I'm new grad who got hired at Thomson Reuters right after I was done with my last undergrad course. I don't think my story would resonate with others who've commented on here very much since I'm based in Bangkok. But as the title says, I want to leave the company very soon and I'm only at my 5 months mark! (My probationary period lasts for 6 months, which I think is excessive. The job I do isn't even that hard to be honest. My life and the tasks I did in school were a thousand time harder, please read on if you wanna know what kind of tasks I've been doing at this company for the past 5 months.) I'm a software engineer who had imagined myself after graduation be doing something very creative and innovative. It's the reason I'd chosen to study CS in the first place. Unfortunately, all the projects here in Bangkok are soul-draining. All I've done so far consist of fixing stuff here and there and writing some documentation.. Seriously I don't see the value in my work at all. I studied for almost the past 2 decades of my life and I wanna grow up being an adult who does something that has a positive impact to this world. My current job now doesn't give me a sense of doing something that's impactful yet meaningful at all. There're so many people around me who have been serving the company for 10 years or even more! I really doubt how they could do that with all these mundane tasks and a constant re-org. Only after 3 months my manager, some guys in my team and about a hundred of people from other business units at Bangkok site have been laid off. This is quite shocking to me as a new grad but I heard from my colleagues that this kind of thing really is no surprise here. Some of them even wish their names would be on the list next time. Wow the mentality of those who're with the company for so long is something me -- a Millennial -- cannot really stand. It's as if they've lost their passion. They lack the motivation and they're not easily adapt to new technologies that have been coming out. I'm sad that I'm so full of energy and passion to contribute to the company but I'm surrounded by people and filled with tasks that make it harder for me to wake up for work the next morning. I will admit that I want a corporate job because I thought it'd look good on my profile and that the company would have awesome projects for me to do and the tools that the company is using would be some of the most cutting-edge in the industry (beware here I'm not talking about the tools or products that company is producing). Oh and did I mention that the company or maybe just the Bangkok site? is still using the outdated MS outlook!!? My manager also.. hmm he's a nice person who'd listen to everything I say but doesn't really take actions towards what I've requested. For example, I've asked many times for some basic financial training as I'd like to be more knowledgable about the industry that the company I'm working for is in. Then you guess it.. I haven't had any training thus far. Oh one last thing, the atmosphere and the setting of the office are really really dull. On my floor, it's super packed like there's really no room for creativity. If a representative of the company just passed by my comment, please tell this to someone who'd have the power to do something for the better for Bangkok site. Anyway, I think this is enough for ranting. I still wanna stay with company for the industry that it's in. I'm interested in this financial world .. maybe I'd need to move to other sites where there're more cool things in action? Or maybe I should just leave for a startup..