The advantages are that the company’s benefits are fairly good, with quite a few benefits of various sizes. The location is also fairly convenient in terms of transportation, and all kinds of internal matters can be handled using electronic forms. The systems and procedures are well established.

I have no particular opinion about the company, but I have very strong objections to the department I belong to.

The “Understanding, Understanding” department under the BU responsible for mobile phones and tablets.

1. The supervisor’s attitude toward subordinates is similar to the Chinese Communist Party’s attitude toward Taiwan: applying pressure through verbal and military intimidation and taking a high-handed stance, with absolutely no respect for people.

2. After joining the department, one colleague discovered that the actual job responsibilities differed greatly from what had been discussed in the interview. After raising the issue, they were instead required to do their utmost to complete work outside the scope originally agreed upon before being allowed to perform the work that had originally been discussed.

3. The technical level is extremely low. At other mobile phone manufacturers, R&D staff can—and should—handle mobile-phone feature modifications and maintenance themselves. But the R&D staff here only have the ability to perform testing and report error logs to customers. They have only OEM capabilities. In all likelihood, even someone from a non-technical academic background could come here and work as an R&D engineer.

4. The supervisor’s requirements are all unrealistic. To use an analogy, it would be roughly like asking you to build an airplane capable of crossing the Pacific Ocean using two pairs of bamboo chopsticks.

5. Combining points 1 and 4, when interacting with subordinates, the supervisor does not really think about the weight or impact of what they are saying. They lash out whenever they feel like it, and when making demands, they only care about enjoying the sound of their own voice and getting excited, without considering whether the demands are reasonable.

6. The focus of the work here is testing, testing, and more testing. The supervisor only cares whether you perform testing skillfully. They have little involvement in the software architecture or implementation of the project’s products.

You can refer to the review titled “Tablet sw1” from 2014 on iPeen.

Conclusion: This is actually a QA unit rather than an R&D unit.