Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣谷嘉美有限公司

There are regular purchases of snacks and drinks for everyone to eat.

The salary is paid at the end of the month.

The boss has no technical background and spends all day coming up with unrealistic technical requirements that cannot be met.

They like to use managers who are all talk: you do not need to know how to do the work as long as your English is good and you know how to flatter people.

That is currently what the managers in Taiwan are like.

I heard that they pry into employees’ privacy, and if you complain, they will suppress you and force you to leave.

They like playing office politics, so quite a few employees have left because of it.

Overtime cannot be exchanged for money. Officially, you can submit a compensatory leave form, but in practice, you can never use it up.

You will even be singled out by that manager if you want to take leave.

They claim to be a foreign company, but they cut costs more aggressively than Taiwanese companies and pay below the industry standard.

Unless you know that manager and get in through personal connections, a pay raise is nowhere in sight.