Workplace reviews and discussion: 叡揚資訊股份有限公司

Work hardware, software, and environment

1. There are plenty of places to eat nearby, and transportation is fairly convenient.

2. The building is clean, but for some reason the men’s restroom on the GSS floor has poor ventilation.

3. The laptop subsidy is NT$28,000, paid in installments. The laptop becomes your personal property after purchase. Whether this is good or bad depends on your perspective: on the positive side, you can choose one you like, but for me, the NT$28,000 budget was not enough for a development laptop, and I would have had no use for it after leaving the company.

4. The company does not provide properly licensed development software.

5. Coffee costs money; only one day per week is free.

Salary and benefits

1. Salaries are not adjusted every year, and the increases are not particularly noticeable.

3. Overtime is the norm. Of the roughly 10 overtime claims submitted, I could only receive overtime pay for about two; the rest were forcibly converted into compensatory leave, and in some cases overtime could not even be reported.

4. The number of spots for the company trip is limited. Registration fills up about one minute after opening, and as someone stationed off-site, I never had a chance to get a spot.

5. The company has approximately 500 employees, but the total prize money at the year-end banquet is no more than NT$300,000, and the boss has never added any extra money.

Various challenges

1. End-to-end responsibility

2. EQ

3. The projects use outdated technology; this depends heavily on the department.

Working at GSS depends a lot on luck—whether you end up on the right project—but most projects are disasters.