Workplace reviews and discussion: 精英電腦股份有限公司

The company is located in the Neihu Technology Park, which makes it convenient to interview with other companies without having to take time off.

1. Shows very little respect for interviewees. They proactively invited me to interview, but before I started the written test, they did not inform me that it had to be completed in English. After I submitted it, they then asked me to redo it in English. It was clearly the HR department’s failure to provide proper notice, yet they expected me to do the rework. Moreover, the company is clearly Taiwanese-owned, so I cannot understand the need to translate the written-test answers into Chinese (is the manager a foreign national?).

2. Shows very little respect for interviewees. After I completed the written test and interviewed with HR, I was told to wait for the manager’s interview. But I ended up waiting for 1.5 hours. By the time it was 5:30 p.m. and the office lights had automatically turned off, the manager still had not shown up (the “smart home” advertised in the lobby is truly ironic—didn’t it detect this guy pacing around the conference room the whole time?!). When I called HR, all I got was a response that they had already urged the manager. I thought that even if I was not good enough for the company, they could simply let me go home; leaving me stranded in a conference room was really pointless. There should be a limit to how badly people are treated. So I called HR and said I was leaving (I had already waited an hour and a half—by then, I could have driven all the way to Hsinchu!), since I did not need this job anyway. I decided to treat it as a one-day trip to Neihu. Then HR said the manager was available. What kind of act was this supposed to be ... @@a

3. The company is part of the Tatung Group. I previously worked at one of the group’s subsidiaries, so I consider this a drawback: the company has an especially large number of ridiculous and incompetent issues. But because the Technology section on PTT said that the HR staff were attractive, I thought I might as well come and take a look since I had nothing else to do. Now I feel there must have been some misunderstanding .... XDD

4. The salary does not guarantee 14 months of pay.

5. Performance reviews are conducted once every quarter. I confirmed repeatedly that employees really do have to write four reviews a year. Most companies usually do this twice a year.