Pros

You have to wear a uniform to work. In the past, even R&D staff had to clean the toilets; now everyone still has to sweep the floor every Friday.

Managers at assistant-manager level and above have a huge sense of authority and are difficult to get along with.

Job postings are open all year round—they are always short-staffed.

Cons

1. Year-end bonuses must be multiplied by the KPI and the performance achievement rate expected by the boss—approximately multiplied by 0.3.

Business performance is very poor, while the boss’s expectations are very high, so the year-end bonus gets discounted again and again (“We all have to weather difficult times together”—as the boss said at the year-end banquet).

2. Mid-Autumn Festival gift money: everyone gets one pomelo; I forget whether there was also NT$1,000.

3. Birthday gift money: just NT$1,000—don’t deduct anything else.

4. Wedding gift money: NT$3,600; take it or leave it.

◆ R&D Bonuses

1. First- and second-half KPI bonuses (six months)

~R&D personnel can receive up to 19 months of annual salary~ Please, who has actually received 19 months? An employee this outstanding should be publicly praised.

It’s complete bullshit.

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1. Labor insurance

2. National health insurance

◆ Benefits and Policies

1. Production-line employee uniforms — Would you want to stand at work wearing a raincoat? That is what the production-line uniforms are like. Is this considered a benefit???

2. Meal allowance — Eight people share a set meal; one table costs only NT$400 and has four dishes, with very small portions. When there is a big eater, the table gets cleaned out (the women fight for food too).

3. Performance bonus (mockery bonus??) Paid once every six months, with a very high chance of getting nothing. With the monitoring-equipment business performing this badly, you get at most half a month’s salary.

It all gets taken by supervisors (assistant-manager level and above), who then pretend they did not receive it and kindly ask why you did not get yours.

◆ Facilities

1. Employee cafeteria — It is surrounded by factories, and the air quality is extremely poor. Imagine the dining environment for yourself.

◆ Leave / Vacation Policies

1. Five-day workweek with weekends off

2. Special leave / annual leave

3. Paternity leave

4. Prenatal checkup leave

5. Marriage leave: the company deducts from your marriage leave; weekends are also counted within the eight days.

6. Bereavement leave

◆ Other

1. Employee parking spaces are in the basement level 2 of a building over 30 years old. You can only ride a scooter. The boss’s son keeps changing cars (Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW), then tells you the company is not making money and that everyone must weather difficult times together. Just obediently rub your nose and ride to work.

2. R&D staff are not expected to work themselves to death. Your supervisor will tell you that it is fine if you do not work overtime, but will give you a very low KPI score so you cannot receive the performance bonus. They will also threaten you by saying that if your KPI continues to be poor, you may be laid off.

If you stay for a full year and genuinely want to be laid off, the company has to pay severance.

Then some senior executive will “kindly” remind you, just as they “kindly” remind people who are thinking of taking advantage of the situation.

If you are laid off, it will go on your record. If you are laid off, it will go on your record. If you are laid off, it will go on your record.

It is important, so I’ll say it three times, because too many people have resigned voluntarily because of this.

Only one brave person held on, ignored the “kind, well-intentioned” reminders, and received severance pay.

3. Employee health examinations: apparently once every two or three years. Don’t be foolish.

National health insurance also covers health checkups; for NT$150, you can definitely get a more detailed examination.

Also, if you work continuously in an unhealthy environment, it is easy to develop strange illnesses.

4. Year-end banquet: the annual banquet is terrible.

I remember the total prize money distributed was less than NT$100,000. Everyone received a NT$1,000 consolation prize.

◆ Subsidies

1. Contributions under the new retirement-pension system

This indicates that some people there chose the old system and are waiting to reach 25 years of service, staying there to coast and act senior.