Workplace reviews and discussion: 京群超媒體股份有限公司

1. Severance pay is provided upon redundancy, because the company is afraid of being sued. However, they may try to persuade you to resign voluntarily to avoid leaving a record of having laid off too many people.

2. Because of the low wages and difficulty finding staff, the quality of colleagues is highly uneven. You may meet all kinds of people, from those who seem to soar in the sky to those who crawl on the ground.

The list is too long to include in full.

1. The salary is as low as it can possibly be. Your education and experience are disregarded; the company only wants to treat employees as disposable utensils. As a result, turnover is extremely high—at one point, 15 people left in a single month. (The company has approximately 50 employees.)

2. The management is short-sighted and focused on immediate gains. The company has many senior executives who contribute nothing, and most frighteningly, they still want to pass the company on to their incapable children. It is the classic mindset of a Taiwanese family-business boss.

3. They are eager to claim credit for minor achievements. At year-end parties and holiday events, they offer trivial benefits but make employees act as though they should be deeply grateful. In reality, salaries still do not increase.

4. If you want bonuses, they are only available when revenue targets are met. But given the products’ lack of competitiveness and the shrinking membership base, that is merely wishful thinking.

5. They violate labor laws: there is no overtime pay for overtime work. Communication-software harassment also continues after work; even if you do not frequently check the messaging software, you may be dismissed or smeared. You must look at the junk-group links sent by the boss, or you will be questioned. Supervisors blame the nature of the industry and use various forms of remote connection to make you work overtime from home during weekends and even the Lunar New Year holiday.

6. Job titles and salaries within the company are not necessarily related. In the past, there was even an assistant manager whose salary was lower than that of a specialist. Rewards are merely used to create a false impression.

7. Decisions change extremely quickly, but they are usually based on no market evidence whatsoever—only on gut feelings.

8. They are superstitious about feng shui, deities, and Buddhism. Even though this is an industry that requires creativity and keeping up with the market, they still cling to traditional-industry practices such as burning incense and performing sacrificial rituals.

9. The workload is extremely complicated and extensive, mainly because turnover is too high and transfers between departments happen very frequently, with no regard for your expertise or background. Under these circumstances, there are often not enough substitutes when someone takes leave, making it difficult to request time off.

10. The systems they use are very outdated. The conditions stated in the job-bank listing are worlds apart from the actual work. Anyone hoping to learn and further develop their technical skills should not believe the listing.

Conclusion: Here, you can see the most miserable future of Taiwan’s game industry. With losses exceeding 60% year after year, the company can only offer employees the minimum wage and can only recruit people with insufficient experience. Turnover is therefore extremely high, and people may be pushed out for all kinds of reasons, creating a vicious cycle. Continuous wrong decisions by senior management, a lack of funds to develop new products, extremely outdated technology in the mobile-game market, and an unwillingness to spend money on advertising, among other factors, have caused the product’s membership to plummet and its competitiveness to decline—yet they blame the unfavorable overall environment.

I can only advise job seekers to find another path and not stubbornly walk into this dump.

P.S. The company uses certain “methods” to manipulate the game. Those interested can search the relevant game discussion forums themselves.