Workplace reviews and discussion: 暐世生物科技股份有限公司

The colleagues in the department are easy to get along with; in fact, that is about the only positive. I hope he can find a good opportunity soon and escape this company.

This company is divided into medical devices and cosmetics divisions. I work in the R&D unit of the cosmetics group, so I will refrain from commenting on the medical devices side.

I strongly do not recommend the cosmetics group. Setting aside the company’s problematic policies, the person in charge of the cosmetics group is the company’s special assistant—that is, the owner’s wife. I don’t know whether it is because this special assistant has an accounting background, but her control over costs is astonishing. Orders that had already been secured have been lost for no reason other than her unwillingness to purchase new raw materials, leaving the company with a pitifully small selection of materials. The company’s working style is also closed-minded and conservative: R&D staff are not allowed to contact raw-material suppliers (except supervisors), yet when supplier assistance is needed, they expect the R&D staff below to leverage their personal connections.

The biggest problem with the cosmetics group is that its supervisor is an emotional middle-aged woman. During my first week at the company, I saw her impatiently roll her eyes at a junior R&D assistant. She also came by every now and then to complain about another R&D and business supervisor. In short, she has very little sense of how to be a supervisor.

Whenever something happens, she only blames sales or manufacturing instead of first thinking of ways to solve the problem.

While discussing work with her, I discovered that many of her ideas were very strange. I don’t know whether she was feeling guilty and afraid that I would bad-mouth her after resigning. On my last day, while I was busy handing over my work and processing the samples I had on hand, she came to the laboratory to boast about her own achievements. (Of course, this was not the first time during my short tenure of less than three months.) She said that she was not a person without substance, that all the companies she had worked for were large companies, and that whenever she posted her résumé on 104, headhunters would come to her on their own, so she had never needed to submit résumés herself. She said she did not enter the laboratory to conduct experiments in order to give us juniors opportunities—otherwise, why would the company hire us? She asked how capable we juniors thought we were, saying that when she was making a name for herself at her first company, we juniors probably did not even know where we were yet~

I held back the countless questions and curses in my heart so that I didn’t reply: “Sorry, I really hadn’t even been born yet at that time~”

It is genuinely difficult to understand this kind of behavior—making things unpleasant for a subordinate even as they are about to resign.

As for the salary, the monthly pay is fairly decent, but I heard there is no year-end bonus. (Of course, during the interview they told you there was one, and even said there would be stock options.)

However, in terms of career development, I strongly advise against it.

If you want to know more details, feel free to leave a comment. Former colleagues who have suffered under this middle-aged woman are also welcome to join in spreading the negativity.