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A company with an extremely high turnover rate. On average, employees leave within three months. There are three reasons. First: the job title applied for does not match the actual job duties. The boss uses all kinds of exaggerated and untrue sales pitches to lure people in—for example, saying that they admire your talents and know how to make use of you. However, you later discover that they do not even really understand what you can do, leaving you underutilized. Second: the bonus system. Basically, they set your base salary very low and then use the promise of a percentage of bonuses to entice you to accept the low base pay. Even if you work on and participate in certain projects, you may not necessarily receive the bonus; even worse, sometimes there is no bonus at all. As a result, you can only keep living in Taipei on an extremely low base salary. Third: the company's internal regulations are chaotic. The boss will do everything possible to pursue their own maximum benefit—for example, not paying wages for typhoon days off, not paying overtime, and firing employees they already intended to dismiss before a long holiday so they can save several days of wages for national holidays during the long weekend. And so on—the inside stories are too numerous to tell. All I can say is that you need to be extremely careful. Any verbal agreements about anything must be put into a contract and signed immediately. Best of luck.