Stable employment

Benefits: Three company banquets a year, including a mid-year banquet, Christmas banquet, and year-end banquet. There are prize draws at all of them, with additional prizes sponsored by the chairman.

Employees get along well. At least, that was my experience, though this does not include relationships with supervisors. Overtime can generally be claimed when applicable, but I have encountered situations where, because the department was not making money, employees were implicitly discouraged from reporting overtime.

Low salary, basically determined by seniority. I once encountered a mid-level supervisor who, because they had greater seniority than a senior executive, did not pay much attention to the senior executive.

Promotion channels are not smooth. Mid-level supervisors are very good at making empty promises. When an opening for an engineer at the next level becomes available, the company would rather hire from outside and rarely considers promoting junior engineers from within, because junior staff would need to be trained from scratch. The workload from the vacant position is then added to other engineers or mid-level supervisors, so promotion opportunities remain limited. There is an elimination mechanism, but it is based solely on the preferences of mid-level supervisors. That alone would be bad enough, but they also privately find intermediaries to tell you to resign voluntarily, and tell you that the company will look through your previous reports to find fault with you and may sue you if necessary. Naturally, you will not receive that year's year-end bonus either. In short, they are unwilling to lay people off through a formal redundancy process.