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No overtime pay for working overtime. PMs are experts at shifting blame: taking on a project counts toward the PM’s performance, but when they impose unrealistic deadlines and the RD team cannot deliver, it is counted solely as the RD team’s fault, while the PM’s performance credit remains intact. RDs spend all day doing paperwork; one RD once went two months without writing a single line of code, spending all that time helping PMs write documents that the PMs should have prepared themselves.
PMs at the Taipei headquarters have it the worst, as senior management only listens to the PM’s one-sided account because they are nearby.
Moreover, the parent company gets all the benefits, while the subsidiaries are treated like dirt. ASUS grants seven days of leave and gains a good reputation externally, but the subsidiaries get absolutely nothing.