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About Hong Leong Bank

Hong Leong Bank Berhad (HLB) is a regional financial services company based in Malaysia, with a presence in Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, and China. Hong Leong Bank is one of Malaysia's largest banks and operates about 200 branches in its home country.

Your role

The Graduate Trainees will be assigned to mentors who will provide guidance in on-going projects and gain development skills and hands-on practices, both from actual coding and CI/CD process that is required to create and maintain applications. The Graduate Trainee will be able to design, build and support HLB's applications.

Training, development & rotation

Throughout the 12-month program, the Graduate Trainees will be required to develop programs/applications based on the projects that are given and will also be required to work with other team-mates from different backgrounds, skills, and different teams in order to understand the flow and the architecture of a specific application.

Compensation & benefits

Besides receiving a main salary, you will get the following benefits:

• Medical benefits
• Bonus
• Annual leave
• Allowance
• The Employees' Provident Fund (EPF)

Career progression

The trainees will get intensive development in coding and CI/CD process. It is an acceleration program where the trainees will be prepared to be the leaders at HLB. Upon the completion of the program, there will be a landing job, especially in the IT Department. Your performance and skills will be strongly considered for the future placement. 

Work-life balance

Based on information from another source, the average work-life balance rate given by employees at Hong Leong Bank is 2.9 out of 5. The workload given is also acceptable as described first. In addition, HLB applied common working hours, not exceeding more than 8 hours per day and more than 45 hours per week. However, you must work overtime at the end of the month of the year.

Culture & vibe

Hong Leong Bank offers an inclusive work environment for employees to develop their full potential and give back to the communities where HLB operates. According to employees' reviews, HLB has a very supportive and collaborative working environment. Moreover, the seniors and managers are welcome and friendly to trainees or new employees.

About you

To apply for this position, you have to meet the basic qualifications below:

• Malaysian citizen
• Fresh graduates/individuals with max 1 year experience, with a criteria CGPA of 3.2
• Bachelor's Degree in Computing-related fields from local universities

Other preferred skills for consideration:

• Able to code in one or more of the below languages: Angular, ionic, Java, Swift, NodeJS, Kotlin, Ansible, Groovy
• Excellent Written and Verbal Communication
• Able to use GIT (Sourcecode Repository)
• Able to document the code written properly for future references
• Able to take charge of the tasks that will be given

How to apply

To apply for the job, click the “Apply on employer site” button below. Prosple will direct you to Hong Leong Bank Malaysia's official link for this vacancy. Make sure you have read all of the requirements and skills mentioned above.

Sources

Here are the sources used on this page:

• glassdoor.com/Reviews/Hong-Leong-Bank-Reviews
• hlb.com.my/en/personal-banking/about-us/careers/life
• hlb.com.my/en/personal-banking/about-us/careers/graduate-trainee-program