Workplace reviews and discussion: 業務助理

Pros: Some managers are fairly easy to communicate with. Relations among colleagues are also fairly harmonious.

Cons

This is a subsidiary under 奇偶公司, 奇卓. I previously worked at this company in sales, and above me was the Sales VP. Currently, there is only one sales manager. Personally, I have a very bad impression of this manager, who previously worked at Qualcomm. There are several reasons:

1. Employees 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 are expected to be his personal assistant and salesperson 24 hours a day, while also not competing with him for sales results. You must accommodate him and be considerate of him at all times, understand him, and understand the traps he sets for subordinates.

2. He treats subordinates like dogs. He dumps tasks he cannot do himself on others, bullies those with less power, and has an extremely arrogant attitude.

3. Business entertainment is normal. But drinking until you get sick and vomit everywhere, and then being unable to come to work the next day, is apparently unacceptable. When you help him back home and he vomits everywhere, 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 has to be completed at the last minute. If it is not completed, 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 I helped him home with the general manager and technical director, I learned that no one actually takes care of him. He moved out and lives by himself; 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 guinea pig. If the product is not good or has not been properly developed, you have to rely on drinking to win sales, and the general manager is also happy to have someone help him take the alcohol.

6. The general manager claims to evaluate people impartially, but listens entirely to direct supervisors. As long as the direct supervisor says someone is not good, the general manager will think that person is not good. 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.

Finally, 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 come to work the next day. In addition to having to clean up his vomit, you will also be treated unfairly by him.

As for R&D, based on my own interactions, I feel that the technical director is 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 lot working here, but I still strongly advise against sales unless the VP is replaced.

Finally, an additional note: Currently, this company’s sales and shipping processes are both a complete mess. There are no SOPs, and no one proactively goes to meet with people; perhaps they are waiting for the next guinea pig. Orders frequently cannot be shipped because there is no inventory, and after-sales service is very poor. This is also why I do not recommend sales: these are all extremely important processes for both sales staff and customers. If the processes are not in place, even good orders or products are useless, because once customers buy from you once, they will not buy again. But the current VP’s idea is simply to push volume and hit the KPI; as long as the general manager reaches the target, that is enough.