Workplace reviews and discussion: 轉轉創意網路有限公司

The workspace is nice, and things were harmonious enough during the first year.

TL;DR: If you’re a designer thinking of applying, you can join and use it as a place to build experience. Engineers should still go elsewhere.

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At Zhuanzhuan, projects are almost always managed by a single PM, who was unwilling to hire additional help. My last impression was that they found an “intern” to help manage this part, but I don’t know what happened afterward.

Zhuanzhuan does not actually place much importance on engineers. During interviews, the basic standards for junior candidates were too low. Because the frontend team was squeezed for time by projects, there was not much time to mentor new hires. This affected both project quality and progress, leaving engineers with limited room for growth. To them, engineers were simply responsible for putting the designs online. The overall focus was mainly on design, but when designers had bolder ideas, they were constrained by the engineers’ actual capabilities. As a result, taking the website’s implementation further became a major obstacle.

The backend was basically just applying PHP tools such as WordPress and PrestaShop, with a few additional features at most. Even during busy periods, there was only about one engineer responsible for managing the systems.

When the boss was there, it was basically the noisiest time in the company. Many things were pursued with only three minutes of enthusiasm: after saying “That’s so cool,” there was never any follow-up. They wanted to develop independent products and tried several ideas, but none came to anything. The boss repeatedly claimed to enjoy mentoring newcomers, but was not the person primarily doing the mentoring. There was even a case where they hired an intern, discovered that the intern knew nothing, and then let them go. Although they were the boss, they appeared to understand the company the least; it would be more accurate to say that the PM seemed more like the boss.

The benefits seemed good on the surface, but they were mainly used for self-promotion on Facebook. There was not much emphasis on personnel management. In the end, things steadily deteriorated because of management problems, and the benefits were reduced as a result.