National University of Singapore Reviews

Current Employee – been working at National University of Singapore part-time for less than a year

Pros – People here are passionate about what they do.

Cons – Location and crowd during peak hours make quite a sight to behold...

Advice to Senior Management – nil

Current Employee – been working at National University of Singapore full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good environment. You can find experts in various fields here.

Cons – Very competitive. Stressful working. Work/Life balance is poor.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at National University of Singapore as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Huge university with plenty of opportunities in diverse fields, competent professors and educators passionate about their craft and disciplines.

Cons – Inevitable bureaucracy and unresponsiveness that comes with a huge organization.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at National University of Singapore

Pros – Good renumeration package and medical coverage

Cons – None so far as NUS is a good institution

Former Employee – worked at National University of Singapore full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – - Work-life balance
- Little or no politics at working level
- Make really good friends with colleagues
- Great medical benefits

Cons – - HR hiring process not efficient to hire for staff replacement

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at National University of Singapore full-time for more than a year

Pros – Job responsibility is stable. And it is a flexible environment, the time of work is flexible, no quite a lot of meetings, you do have some time to work on what you want to do.

Cons – There is a pressure for weekly update. Most of the time, research work will tend to fail instead of give you desired results. It is a bit hard to have satisfied results to present every week.

Former Employee – worked at National University of Singapore full-time for more than a year

Pros – doing research work in a discipline that i love is very fulfilling. encouraging professors and colleagues. okay-ish pay. good work environment.

Cons – the travel time to work was very very long, almost an hour for me by car. career advancement opportunities were limited, as is much the case in academia

Advice to Senior Management – create more partnerships with overseas universities and do not favor certain departments (ahem)

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at National University of Singapore full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The government is funding the university and there is no layoff so far. The increment and bonus are dependent on the country economic growth.

Cons – Performance appraisal is subjected to some unknown quota and usually normalized across the department. Salary Increment is small as it is a big organization to be sustainable in the long term and promotion is slow.

Advice to Senior Management – Allow department the autonomy to generate its revenue thru' consultancy and projects. The revenue earned could be used to fund its human resource recruitment, benefits and compensations.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at National University of Singapore full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Full-time research student, no obligation for teaching and can thus concentrate on research work. No associated bond. Among increases to 2500SGD after passing qualifying exam.

Cons – Not considered as employee and no bonus and other benefits. Funding for overseas conference is limited.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at National University of Singapore full-time for more than a year

Pros – Best labs in the asia, all kinds of tools available if needed

Cons – people take more conservative approach. Need to be more encouraging to try new ideas,

Advice to Senior Management – Let people try new ideas and do not judge based on number of papers alone..

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company