There’s a delicious pork rib noodle shop near the company. Awesome.

I originally didn’t want to post a negative review about a place like this, but I still have to tell anyone considering applying here: unless you can deliver “immediate results,” don’t come. I worked in a role related to video and audiovisual content, and the following are the areas where I repeatedly hit walls at this company:

1. The boss often manages employees like salespeople, requiring everyone to produce results. However, the boss has no central objective and only asks directly whether you have any ideas and what you can do to make money for the company. Then comes: How many units will the products sell? Will it be enough to earn back your salary?

2. The company hopes audiovisual content will produce results immediately, with gimmicks and creativity—ideally enough to trigger purchases. But the boss has never seemed interested in developing audiovisual content around the platform’s long-term goals. The only requirements are that it have quality and humor; beyond that, employees are expected to come up with everything themselves, while having no idea what he actually wants. He is constantly asking employees about their plans and proposals, but has never explained the company’s long-term goals, short-term goals, or sales strategy. He only criticizes employees for not being proactive. No matter what a proposal contains, the questions are always: Can it sell products? Can you guarantee that it will make money? Do you want to bet on it? Or, alternatively, can the number of likes and the traffic grow significantly? Conclusions like these from the boss only make people feel offended and disrespected.

3. He does not respect professional expertise. He has expressed the view that someone who edits videos should also be able to come up with proposals. He has also said that he could come up with a whole bunch of video ideas without even needing a script. In reality, his ideas are not impossible to execute, but they require time for planning and production. When we explained that “time” was needed to produce quality content, he would retort that we were not being proactive. In short, he is an overly simplistic businessman who would ideally like us to produce content covering everything under the sun. He does not understand video production and assumes that we are taking our time or just sitting at a computer. In reality, he simply wants you to do the best possible job, regardless of how much manpower and resources it requires.

4. Your job responsibilities will be delayed or disrupted by the boss’s other business matters. In short, the boss has not hired additional people to handle other operations, such as warehousing, so you will often have to help him deal with miscellaneous tasks that he himself has not planned for. Naturally, he also will not proactively tell you about overtime pay.

5. He frequently asks you for plans, but ultimately insists on interfering in what you are supposed to do. He is a boss with very strong opinions. On the one hand, he wants you to plan what you should do yourself; on the other hand, he says that what you want to do lacks productivity and efficiency. As a result, you often end up like a headless fly.

Finally: Think twice before coming to this company. If you have plenty of “ideas” and can “make money” for the company, then come on in!