1. Lunch is provided; they order in boxed meals, with quite a few options.

2. Unlimited coffee, milk, and tea bags.

3. The salary should be considered quite good in the cosmetics industry. If you still want to join after reading this, be bold when stating your desired salary so you won't regret it after joining.

4. They are willing to give young people opportunities, so you don't have to worry about lacking experience. (No expertise or experience is required; you only need to know how to follow orders.)

5. The company location is convenient for transportation.

6. Female employees can frequently try out skincare products.

7. You clock in when arriving at work, but don't have to clock out when leaving. Overtime is not mandatory. (However, meetings may run until the end of the workday, or the work may simply be impossible to finish. Under the responsibility-based system, there is no overtime pay.)

8. There is some flexibility for arriving late.

9. There are occasional group dinners, perhaps two or three times a year, depending on the boss's mood.

10. The colleagues are easy to get along with.

1. The organization is flat. Everything, big or small, has to be run by the boss. No one can—or dares to—make decisions, even about the tiniest matters. Managers are merely figureheads: they have the title but no real authority, and are only invoked when their name is needed to pressure you. Regardless of your position, you report directly to the boss. When you ask a colleague or manager how something should be handled, the answer is often: “I don't know; you have to ask the boss.”

2. Decisions change from one day to the next. As mentioned above, you can't just ask once. If a matter will pass through A, B, and C, all three had better reconfirm it with him repeatedly before carrying it out, because he will keep changing his mind and then forget what he previously said, blaming the people who did the work. Also, he may make a different decision each time about the same matter. In short, ask him about everything before doing it. The company has no principles; whatever he says goes.

3. He has difficulty making decisions. He will keep asking employees to think about it more and look for more options, but even when given many choices, he still can't decide. Matters are always dragged out until the last minute, when there is no time left, before a decision is made. Yet everything has to wait for his decision, so many projects are either rushed into execution at the last minute (leading to many problems to deal with afterward) or abandoned altogether. (Then, after some time has passed, he will ask about the progress of the matter and say it has already been delayed for too long.)

4. Too few people, too much work. He thinks everyone has too much free time and keeps piling tasks onto you, but many of them ultimately aren't carried out—in short, you end up doing work for nothing. Capable employees are expected to do the work of N people, with your responsibilities expanding without limit. You are often assigned tasks outside your original job duties, and if you accept them (would you dare refuse when the boss tells you to do them?), that task ultimately becomes your responsibility. This also shows that he has no respect for professional expertise; as long as someone does the work, that's all that matters.

5. All talk, no action. He thinks everything is simple and can be finished quickly, and will keep asking whether you've completed something yet. If it still isn't done after he asks several times, he'll say you're not proactive enough, not working hard enough, too slow, always dragging things out, along with various sarcastic remarks.

6. Very difficult to communicate with. His logic when speaking is extremely poor, yet he blames you for not understanding what he means. He is also very poor at listening and will misunderstand what you mean. When he doesn't like you or is in a bad mood, he will make all kinds of unreasonable demands and pick on you; even if you haven't done anything wrong, he will find absurd issues to criticize you over.

7. Loves holding meetings with no conclusions. Meetings are a huge waste of time. Scheduled meetings are never punctual, and meetings never have a clear focus or conclusion. He speaks ambiguously and goes around in circles, leaving people unsure how to proceed.

8. No one trains you. There is no training, and no one teaches you many of the tasks. You don't learn anything and have to figure things out yourself. Because turnover is high, the office consists either of newcomers who are just as new as you or veteran employees who are so busy they can barely cope. The honeymoon period is fairly good for newcomers; there are no problems before you have had too much contact with him. But since everything has to be checked with him, it is impossible to avoid contact with him forever.

9. All kinds of grand promises—do not, under any circumstances, believe them.

10. Short-term and narrowly focused.

That's it: ten genuine advantages and ten genuine disadvantages. If you can't find another job and need money, you can give it a try.