Workplace reviews and discussion: MStar_晨星半導體股份有限公司

Newcomers should think carefully before joining. Some departments have very poor technical standards and are bogged down with miscellaneous tasks, so you basically learn nothing. Before joining, I assumed my colleagues and supervisors would all be highly capable, but after joining I found that my colleagues' coding skills were roughly at the level of university students, and their software engineering concepts were stuck about 10 years in the past. A single function can be 2,000 lines long; people don't know how to write Makefiles or write them carelessly, and don't know how to use Git (this applies to people with 0–8 years of experience). Projects are done haphazardly and code is written carelessly; after checking out a project, it can never be compiled directly. Moreover, even if your department manager gives you a high performance rating, it will still be lowered by upper management to let senior employees cut in line. After joining, I found that I learned nothing and didn't receive much of a bonus either—a tragedy.