Workplace reviews and discussion: 奇卓科技股份有限公司

Pros: Some managers are fairly easy to communicate with. Colleagues also get along fairly well.

Cons

This is a subsidiary under Jihou Company, Jichuo. I previously worked at this company in sales, and above me was the Sales VP. At present, there is only one sales employee, the manager. Personally, I have a very poor impression of this manager, who previously worked at Qualcomm. There are several reasons:

1. People are expected to be available or respond on Line 24 hours a day, including weekends. If you do not work overtime, you may be fired; leaving work on time may also get you fired. You have to be his personal assistant and salesperson 24 hours a day, while also not competing with him for sales results. You must accommodate him, be considerate of him, understand him, and deal with the traps he sets for subordinates at all times.

2. He treats subordinates like dogs. He dumps things he cannot do himself on other people, bullies those with less power, and carries himself with a very arrogant attitude.

3. Business entertainment is normal. However, getting so drunk that you vomit everywhere and cannot work the next day may not be acceptable. When you help him home and he vomits all over the place, the general manager will even ask you to clean up his vomit. Then no one will appreciate you, because he was so drunk that he remembers nothing.

4. He is extremely demanding and a control freak. He has to review almost everything, and everything also has to be completed at the last minute. If it is not finished, you have to work overtime, and then he tells you that he is teaching you. :-)

5. Basically, I feel very sorry for this VP, because the last time the general manager, the technical director, and I helped him home, we found out that no one actually took care of him. He had moved out to live alone; the reason is not important. What I sympathize with is that he may have been treated this way throughout his sales career, so he treats his subordinates the same way when managing people. I can understand why he left Qualcomm to join a startup with only 30 employees. He has always been in sales and has never been a manager. I should have been his first lab rat. If the product is not good or has not been properly developed, you have to rely on drinking to win business, and the general manager is also very happy to have someone take the alcohol for him.

6. The general manager claims to assess people impartially, but listens entirely to their direct supervisors. As long as the direct supervisor says someone is bad, the general manager will think that person is bad. For this reason, I do not think the general manager of this company values talent; he probably does not have time to value talent either.

7. Minimum wage.

In the end, I do not recommend joining this company as a Sales employee. Even if you do, I hope you will not choose the manager who previously worked at Qualcomm and drank so much that he could not work the next day—the manager surnamed M—because in addition to having to clean up his vomit, you will also be treated unequally by him.

As for R&D, based on my own interactions, I found the technical director to be extremely capable. This may also be why the general manager does not care about PMs or non-technical personnel. I believe new R&D employees can learn a great deal while working here, but I still strongly advise against sales roles unless the VP is replaced.