Workplace reviews and discussion: 亞科國際資訊股份有限公司

Spacious and bright, with the goal of becoming the second Google, giving people a sense of vision.

The decisiveness to carry out involuntary layoffs directly at the end of the year in order to save on year-end bonuses.

And the salary, paid on the fifth of every month, made up of various allowances to supplement the statutory base wage, makes you feel full of motivation.

In a recent dream, an engineer who had just left in the latest wave said:

The company currently says that it is temporarily no longer hiring because the department is being downsized (at least, that’s the official story).

Still, if hiring resumes someday, I should remind anyone who may have a chance of joining in the future:

On Monday and Thursday mornings, you have to sweep the floor; after work, you must clock out by 6:30 p.m.

Whenever the company applies for government subsidies that involve courses, it always chooses times after work or on weekends.

When the company treats this as perfectly reasonable, trust your instincts (there is 100% a problem).

Simply put, every way you can imagine the company trying to take advantage of you or exploit you will appear here.

If you leave later, it’s best not to sign any waiver.

(Just follow the procedures under the Labor Standards Act. Do your own research; don’t rely solely on what the company tells you.)

The CEO wants to accomplish great things, then spends every day complaining that the company is constantly running into problems.

(Anyone with eyes can see where the problem lies... Of course, he also bears some responsibility.)

At first, every project that comes in is described as wonderful and as the first move toward building something great.

Then, before long, all kinds of problems begin to emerge (changes, added requirements, and so on).

Although this is considered normal in the industry, this is when the contract becomes especially important (one of the key points).

When problems arise, you discover that the contract is practically as good as having no contract at all.

Either the important parts were not specified, so both sides tell their own version of events when something goes wrong,

or, even when something is written down, the client makes a fuss and someone agrees to it directly without discussing it with the engineers (key point two).

Worse still, they may win a project very early, leave it sitting there for several months,

and only urgently ask someone to start development when the project is nearing completion.

(Of course, any resulting delay in completion is blamed on your lack of ability and incompetence ^___^.)

The deliverable keeps changing, leaving you insanely busy.

The next day, requirements that were never mentioned at the beginning will also appear.

Then they’ll say, “Didn’t I tell you about this a long time ago?” and scold you.

So, as far as this company is concerned, a contract

seems to be nothing more than a performance-indicator tool for salespeople to use once they land a deal.

Although the company was established less than two years ago, it has already stepped on plenty of rakes and fallen into plenty of traps,

yet every project repeats the same mistakes, with no improvement whatsoever.

In any case, whenever something goes wrong, they throw it to the lowest-level employees to shoulder,

while everyone above them walks away completely clean.

The second key point concerns one of the senior executives.

There have already been many posts about this part of the story, so I won’t elaborate much.

All I can say is that after being heavily criticized, he became somewhat more restrained.

How did he restrain himself?

He simply hired another person as a manager to serve as his mouthpiece. Hehe.

They say this person works according to his professional judgment,

but in the end, he acts entirely according to that senior executive’s orders.

It’s quite a brilliant move: he can manipulate things without having to get his own hands dirty.

Still, if that person is willing to be treated as a puppet, there’s not much else to say about him.

Don’t expect him to have any real expertise.

Basically, when clients have opinions, his only function is to relay them.

And don’t even dream of discussing or coordinating with him when new features are introduced.

He can even take the change-request form away and destroy it when you aren’t paying attention,

then print you another version with extra additions.

Even when you have concerns to discuss, he responds with all kinds of playing dead.

As for the details of his professionalism, if you ever get the chance to work with him, experience it for yourself.