The colleagues are very nice

I was one of the former employees mentioned. After seeing such an excellent review, I figured I might as well add my two cents.

Salary:

Not the lowest, but not particularly high either.

The company doesn’t like hiring experienced people because then they can offer lower salaries.

Personnel:

At the time, I met a part-time worker who had been there longer than I had (could they be the person mentioned below?).

From chatting with them, I learned that this company had replaced 11 full-time employees within one year, not including part-time workers.

The colleagues and managers weren’t necessarily bad; the ones I encountered at the time were all quite easy to get along with.

That’s because the company’s main problem was the boss, not the colleagues or managers.

The boss used to be a manager at a large company. You really couldn’t say he was familiar with this field.

What he was most familiar with was making reports, because that was what he did at his previous company.

Most of what else he knew came from asking some senior marketing friends.

The boss wanted everyone to be very engaged, so there were occasional group dinners.

However, because the boss’s mood was unpredictable,

it was common for him to be talking to you one moment and then harshly berating you the next.

So even at group dinners, everyone felt awkward and could only lower their heads and keep eating.

Meetings were even worse: everyone took turns being publicly criticized.

At the time, the manager was criticized so harshly that I almost wanted to cry for them.

Overtime was normal; working yourself to death was normal too. Don’t worry if you work until you quit—you won’t be the first or the last.

I started working overtime on my very first day. Working until midnight or 1 a.m. was common.

The boss would only think that everyone was busying themselves pointlessly and didn’t know how to use their time intelligently, and that improving efficiency would let them leave earlier.

If you want to see how badly people can be worked in Taiwan, come take a look.

If you want to learn something, you won’t learn it here.

Part-time workers are easily assigned multiple roles. The boss has a mindset of, “I’m giving you an opportunity to learn by asking you to do this.”