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

1. The R&D department offers opportunities to learn.

2. Good location, and colleagues are easy to get along with.

1. The cost accounting is very strange. I work in a profit-making unit, and all sorts of unexpected expenses, large and small, are included in the department’s costs—telephone calls, workstations, overtime pay, and so on. The company itself offers hardly any benefits, and if this continues, even the department’s small perks will be gone. Some people say there is overtime pay, while others say there isn’t. Because it is tied to department costs, with this bizarre accounting method, if you happen to have a more obedient supervisor, naturally there is no overtime you can report. I was even once questioned by my supervisor because the call charges on my desk phone were too high. I have never made a private call, and I really don’t understand why a supervisor has to meddle in such a trivial matter.

2. The employee trips mentioned on 104 are simply employee trips—there is no additional travel subsidy. There are about four itineraries each year, with two buses per itinerary, so there are roughly 320 spots (including family members; any excess cost must be paid out of pocket). However, the company has more than 500 employees, and each person who gets a spot can bring up to three friends or relatives. Many people cannot get a spot, so the benefit is effectively nonexistent.

3. There are no regular salary adjustments. You practically have to wait for a promotion to get a raise, and even then the increase is very small. They also insist on having a strange position called “PA Programmer Analyst,” which is really just making you do an SA’s work for a PG’s salary.

4. Do not work in a non-R&D department under any circumstances, especially as a student worker. You will neither get paid nor learn anything. The underlying systems are quite powerful, so programs can be written without particularly strong technical skills. Because of this, some supervisors basically treat PGs like production-line workers.

5. It is a retirement home of a company, but it is no longer suitable for young people today. The company does not proactively dismiss people; even those with poor abilities are simply left in place without consequence. Some can even get promoted once their time comes. These people occupy all the positions, leaving young employees with no way to advance, while forcing them to handle a pile of troublesome tasks that the people above cannot resolve.

6. When working at a client site, the company provides no communication equipment whatsoever. The mobile phone and internet costs are all your own responsibility. Now they have even introduced internet telephony: calling an extension makes your mobile phone ring. It sounds modern, but it is basically the same as giving the client the employee’s personal phone number. The internet calls also consume your own data allowance. The only reason for switching to internet telephony is that physical telephone lines are expensive. How expensive could they possibly be? It’s not as if every phone has to be connected like the main switchboard. Just thinking about this makes me angry—I'm going to write my resignation letter in outrage.