Workplace reviews and discussion: 柏煇科技有限公司

1. Paid leave for menstruation is available.

2. Colleagues are easy to get along with.

3. The entry requirements are low.

4. Located near Feng Chia, with convenient transportation.

5. Broadens your horizons and shows you what kinds of companies and bosses are out there.

6. It can test your patience and dignity. If you can endure it, you will do well anywhere.

1. There are no benefits whatsoever—only the base salary and labor and health insurance. The base salary is extremely low. There is no year-end bonus in the first year, not even red envelopes, and no bonuses for the three major festivals. There is nothing.

2. The boss has a bad temper; avoid him whenever possible. Meetings with him are like going to war. He speaks very loudly, and once he starts berating people, he can continue for 4–8 hours, leaving you in a terrible mood at work. He often gets angry over trivial matters and can yell back and forth for no reason. He also frequently speaks badly about former employees to their faces, only to later discover that it was not the former employees’ fault. When work is done well, he will not praise you or say anything, but if something is not done well, he switches into yelling and screaming mode, along with personal attacks. If he is unhappy, he will even hang up on employees directly. In short, the boss has terrible character and treats employees very badly.

3. Basically, there is no employee training whatsoever. They just want you to be immediately productive, and their demands are unreasonable—if you do not know how to do something, it is because you are stupid.

4. Salaries are paid in cash envelopes. It is best to request bank transfers, so that when you file taxes the following year after leaving, you do not discover that your salary was overstated without having payment records to report the company. Unless you keep all the salary envelopes.

5. You will be criticized for taking leave and told that you are causing the company trouble. They may say nothing when you request leave, then bring it up later to criticize you.

6. The boss believes that whoever pays is the boss. He once said to employees directly, “Why would you take someone else’s salary and suffer for it?”

7. It is a responsibility-based system, and there is no overtime pay. They say that not many projects are accepted and that the schedules are stretched out, so basically projects should not be unfinished—unless you lack ability, in which case you should stay late and work overtime to learn properly. When I joined, they said overtime would only happen near the end of a project, but after I joined, employees working to meet project deadlines worked until 5 a.m.

8. It does not offer the salary or scale of a large company, yet it expects a small number of employees to meet the standards and quality of a large company.

9. There is little structure; everything is decided by the boss.