Workplace reviews and discussion: 蝦米智慧媒體股份有限公司

The boss has an extremely poor character...

Has no sense of responsibility.

Never thinks about execution. Takes on projects recklessly, and when they cannot be completed, blames colleagues. Meetings are supposed to solve problems, but he just talks nonsense throughout.

Always tries to take advantage of small benefits.

For every filming project, he cuts costs here and there and slashes the budget. The boss does not understand filmmaking at all but loves to pretend that he does. As a result, from the time the company first started taking on video-production projects until now, it has not been able to produce a presentable work. However, the boss uses employees’ work from their previous companies as promotional material.

He is extremely petty. In fact, perhaps every boss is like this, but as mentioned above, the boss is very fixated on employees’ working hours. He singled out one colleague and claimed that the colleague owed him work hours, so he checked the records. It turned out that the colleague worked an average of seven minutes of overtime every day. The boss was immediately proven wrong, but was still unhappy and said that those seven minutes were spent packing up their belongings before leaving work (extremely childish).

Difficult to communicate with and unwilling to accept professional opinions.

This explains why the company’s turnover is so high. Anyone with skills, ideas, or experience definitely will not stay for more than six months. He previously aggressively recruited media-buying staff, but in the end they all left.

Lacks workplace ethics.

This is the most outrageous company I have ever heard of when it comes to delaying payments. A certain studio was not paid for more than a year and several months (and the amount was not even large), yet the company shamelessly sent that studio another project the following year. A certain director also had to make repeated requests before finally being paid. There is much more...

Working environment:

The desks are extremely, extremely small and do not even have drawers. The company does not provide computers, so you have to prepare your own—and preferably a Mac, because he will think you are impressive. There is no air conditioning after 6 p.m., and air circulation is extremely poor. It is even worse in summer. If there is construction downstairs or work on an exhibition, the air quality is even worse.

Just take what is written on 104 at face value. What you hear during the interview should also be taken with a grain of salt.

He has been saying for three years that the company would go public, but it still has not happened.

“Full-service advertising and media company”—uh... yes, it is indeed full-service, but it does everything poorly. It cannot even carry out projects properly after discounting the price, then says the project was unprofitable. Otherwise, during meetings with clients, he randomly proposes solutions and gives away all sorts of things, increasing the difficulty or working hours required for execution.

“Within the industry, we have a very strong competitive advantage.” I have no idea where that confidence comes from... It is probably because he keeps giving things away—he gives away everything. Oh, and he also tells new employees, “We are the whales at the top of this industry’s food chain...” (Rolling my eyes—you’re more like a shrimp, aren’t you?)

His business philosophy is: “Grow together with our colleagues and share profits with our colleagues.” That is not the case. The boss is very selfish and only cares about enjoying himself. He claims the company is not making money, yet buys a Mercedes-Benz and has a flashy way of doing things.

When you have time, you can take a look at their ridiculous news—so absurd~~

The boss simply goes wherever he sees something that seems profitable. He has never had a clear development direction. Recently, he discovered mobile games, so... I will say no more.

That’s all.