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

A company whose career tree is somewhat different from others; its career tree roughly looks like this:

Mage (programmer) ─ Tank (system analyst) ─ Priest (PM) or Assassin (architect)

There are higher levels above these, but employees with 0–15 years of experience are mainly situated in these classes.

Given that a typical project should have a tank, priest, and mage, the following situations arise.

I’m a mage. Can I keep casting spells to fight monsters and become a high-level mage or senior mage?

Sorry, no. If you don’t move toward becoming a tank, your salary won’t increase. Besides, you should try different things. Learning tanking skills will help you in the future, and everything you learn belongs to you.

I’m determined to become a tank. Is that okay?

Yes, but you’ll still have to start out as a mage.

People who want to become mages then level up to become tanks faster than those who want to become tanks, because mages cast spells more quickly and have shorter skill cooldowns.

Those who want to become tanks have to wait until a position opens up above them before they can level up.

The tank is the most tragic class. The ideas of “being tempered through hardship” and “one-stop responsibility” probably mostly come from this class.

Tanks promoted from mages are fragile and are often run over by monsters. Or, when the younger mages beneath them don’t have enough firepower, they also have to tank groups of monsters when there are multiple windows.

On top of that, they may be afflicted with all kinds of debuffs from the enemy, such as stun, silence, and poison.

You must be wondering: What about the priests?

The people who make it to the priest class are probably:

1. All-rounders or generalists; all-rounders are the legendary experts.

2. People full of passion, ideals, and ambition.

3. People who wanted to become priests from the beginning.

4. People who didn’t want to become assassins and had no choice but to become priests.

5. People who finally made it this far and now just want to rest.

6. People who don’t want to become priests but find changing companies too troublesome or lack the courage to do so.

You may still encounter priests in categories 1–3.

But things aren’t necessarily smooth sailing for priests in categories 1–3, because they may encounter fragile tanks or mages who use weapons to bash monsters.

Salary and benefits have already been discussed in many other posts, so I won’t say more about them.

Promotions are based on performance, yet employees don’t even know the results of their evaluations.

Not every employee’s strengths can be put to use, and unsuitable employees also occupy positions.