1. Some projects may be eligible for overtime pay (some are not).

2. There is a health examination subsidy (but it seems you have to stay for three years before you qualify, or be old enough).

3. There is internal employee training (but sometimes only a few sessions are offered per year, and on the condition that your workload is not so heavy that you need to work overtime).

4. If you work at the Banqiao office, commuting is much more convenient.

5. Subsidies for professional certifications or external training courses (you may not necessarily receive them).

New graduates, please take note: if you are thinking, “I’m still young, so rather than worrying about my starting salary, I’ll focus on how much I can learn from this job”...

Then you may need to be more careful, because this place may extinguish your passion for programming, or even leave you with nothing but years of experience while learning no useful skills. As a result, you may have no bargaining chips when negotiating your salary with a future employer.

The company takes on “relationship-building projects” in hopes of fostering goodwill with clients and securing future opportunities to work together.

The defining characteristics of these projects are that the budget is small, the schedule is tight, and the company bids first and worries about the rest later. As a result, they are often understaffed, while the client’s requirements keep changing.

The key point is that management does not seem to push back against the client’s demands either..... (Well, it’s about building relationships~)

Moreover, at this company, you may think that you will learn the following at work:

1. Git

2. Spring

3. Hibernate

4. Docker

5. Jenkins

and all those commonly listed requirements that other companies look for when hiring.

But that is not necessarily the case. In the project I’m working on, what awaits you is a mountain of tedious business logic specific to the client.

Furthermore, since many of the projects taken on by this company come from government agencies, once you learn these domains, you basically will not use them at other companies. Put bluntly, they are useless.

Also, you might think, “That’s okay—I can just learn those technologies after work or on weekends, right?” That is a naive idea, because your workload will definitely be so heavy that you will need to work overtime just to finish it~

Still, everyone is welcome to take the plunge. Let’s complain and keep each other warm together :)