Workplace reviews and discussion: 台北富邦商業銀行股份有限公司

The leadership lacks the grace to tolerate dissent, acts arbitrarily, and has clear likes and dislikes. Managers follow suit, and the entire organization has fallen into an atmosphere of flattery and sarcasm where no one dares to speak the truth. For several consecutive years, it has been quite common for more than half of an entire section to leave in the post–Chinese New Year wave of resignations. The company is permeated by a second-place mentality; when facing new things, it mostly responds to change by remaining unchanged (from a risk-avoidance perspective, it is truly very “bank-like”), and often only considers following suit after peers have successfully taken action. Cooperation between departments mostly consists of shifting responsibility, with everyone preferring to avoid taking on one more task. Internally, there is virtually no knowledge or document management to speak of, and the forms are disorganized. The only consolation is probably that the salary is still at the level offered by leading local banks (leaving working hours aside, as they vary by department).