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Mr Joseph Eng, 28, found a job as a big data analyst with DBS after just three months of formal coding training.

Mr Joseph Eng, 28, found a job as a big data analyst with DBS after just three months of formal coding training.

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SINGAPORE – After working for two years, Mr Joseph Eng, 28, faced a “quarter-life crisis”.

He thought he would follow in the footsteps of his parents and set up shop like his contractor father or his mother, who used to run a coffee-shop food stall.

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