Workplace reviews and discussion: Allion_百佳泰股份有限公司

For this location (Nantou, test engineer), a salary of 14+ plus performance pay is considered high.

It is a typical family business that just happened to catch a tailwind when it was founded.

Department managers basically do not need any professional expertise. Their job is to cut employees’ pay and personnel expenses.

Can you imagine a regional manager in central Taiwan at an IT company not knowing what certifications such as CCNA, MCSE, and MCITP are?

After an employee once took the company to court (or perhaps mediation), a system for signing off on overtime was introduced. However, overtime pay is settled only once a year.

If you choose overtime pay when working overtime, multiple experiments have shown that your performance bonus for that year will be reduced by an equivalent amount.

In other words, employees are effectively forced to sign for compensatory leave, because choosing overtime pay means you will not receive it anyway.

However, department managers still do everything they can to find excuses not to approve your overtime forms, thereby increasing the available manpower.

The number of full-time employees only decreases and never increases; interns are constantly used to fill manpower gaps.

The result is like being a kitchen soldier: once you have learned almost everything, you have to leave.

But as mentioned above, the managers do not need professional expertise, so naturally there is not much advanced technology for employees to learn either.

Basically, those above pressure those below to produce test reports within impossible deadlines.

Those below (including interns), because they do not have enough time, mass-produce falsified reports to deceive customers.

This creates a terrifying balance in which those above and below collude with each other.

When something goes wrong, the people above berate everyone down the chain, then submit review reports and countermeasures to placate the customer. But it is merely appeasement.

There is no addition of manpower or any fundamental improvement measures. They continue deceiving customers and then continue praying that they will not be found out.

Employees with ability and drive, and employees with hopes and dreams for the future, have basically all resigned and left as soon as they could.

It feels as though the only people left are those like me who drag things out and coast whenever possible, waiting out retirement, along with disposable interns who are discarded once they have been used.