Workplace reviews and discussion: 友達光電股份有限公司

The AUO restaurant in Taichung is very delicious, and there are lots of pretty girls!!

The degree of freedom is fairly high (the same as in the general tech industry).

I personally think R&D is OK, but if the engineering department is connected with production-line manufacturing, I recommend not joining.

At my previous position, I had to be on call 24 hours a day. There were times I got home after midnight and received calls at 2 a.m. or 6 a.m. from the production line and equipment teams notifying me of abnormal yields.

If the issue couldn’t be handled, I had to rush straight to the company to confirm the problem.

Meetings were held once each in the morning, afternoon, and evening, and every hour I had to call my supervisor to report what I had done, the yield rate, and whether there were any abnormalities.

If I didn’t call, my supervisor would chew me out. There were so many meetings, but they were basically just meetings where frontline employees got scolded, with little constructive value—a huge waste of time.

Meetings took up 2–3 hours a day, leaving little time to deal with a large number of abnormalities and manufacturing issues.

I recommend not applying for positions such as Process and Equipment Integration Engineer. Avoid working yourself to exhaustion without learning anything substantial. The work atmosphere is also very poor and high-pressure.