Last year, before the recession hits the States, I met up with some friends and we started talking about small company vs large company. Most of them say that large companies will be better since they’re more stable, consistent and productive. The small ones, to them, are too risky since these companies might suffer from [...]
Categories: Business,Management
Tagged: best, Business, change, company, employer, important, IT, job, large, mentality, opinion, product, recession, retrench, right, small, spending, talk, thinking, time, versus, world
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- February 23, 2009 – 9:23 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim
Today, my company informed my team that a change is needed. The management folks intend to move us from one department to another department – from Java technology to Microsoft technology. This is because there’s no project in the pipeline for the Java team but there are few big projects for the Microsoft team. Thus [...]
Categories: Career
Tagged: boss, Business, Career, change, company, dream, Employee, goal, IT, job, management, objective, opinion, people, plan, retrench, technology, tip
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- February 21, 2009 – 10:18 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim
During my first job in a local IT company, I used to play a lot of Warcraft and Starcraft games in the office with my colleagues. We would go to office every Saturday, work for half day and play for half day. It’s a very fun and enjoyable working culture – you work hard, you [...]
Categories: Career
Tagged: behavior, boss, Career, company, corporate, culture, IT, job, office, people, reason, recession, retrench, terminate, termination, things, try
- Published:
- February 16, 2009 – 10:00 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim
