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I work in tech, and I'm about to move overseas so this is my sayonara text to Singapore: You guys don't know shit about tech and you hire shit talent and overpay them. Tech being the hottest industry right now, I get that it's attractive to people from all walks of life. But that doesn't mean everyone is suited for it. I am so sick of dealing with crap code from people who don't know better, and all these crappy PMs/BAs that can't do their work and still get high salaries, AND all the weird scrum masters whose jobs are so useless I don't even know why we pay them to teach us how to 'optimise' our work when they don't optimise our costs. Please stop buying into western methodologies if you don't know how to use them. The worst part? Salary discrepancies of locals and foreigners. You guys can try to defend all you want, most foreigners get paid more to live the high life here while doing a fraction of the work. Why do we pay these people so much more money? I don't get it. What sort of value do they provide? Do we really need to drive our living costs higher with gentrification? If they actually are better than local talent and provide value to the economy, sure thing, have a seat at the table. But here we are, dealing with foreigner supremacy when their quality of work is trash and all they do is talk and get the Asians to do the work and take the credit. Am I xenophobic? Maybe. But those working in the industry will know the crap we need to deal with. Singapore, please: Put more gates to check the talent coming in. There's so many unreported cases of fake qualifications, biased hiring among certain races, and with the min salary of EP being 5k even for junior positions, it's just a free-for-all for these people. I'm not saying Singaporean talent are that much better, and the tech scene here is generally just sad and wayang. Singapore for Singaporeans needs to be practiced in order to nurture our own people. We're being milked by fakes and you're delusional if you don't see it. Peace.