The benefits are pretty good, and the leave is fairly generous too. It’s suitable for older employees looking to coast into retirement.

Salaries don’t grow according to ability, and the adjustment is so low that it hardly seems like a tech company! Annual compensation is about 16 months’ worth of salary; new engineers with master’s degrees from the top four universities are offered NT$50,000 per month. Please don’t come here and drag down the market rate.

Most managers are stereotypical old-school bosses: they don’t pay overtime but love making people work it. Performance reviews are basically used as overtime pay, and newcomers won’t get a share anyway—unless you consider yourself exceptionally good at acting.

If you have mediocre qualifications and just want to coast, it’s fine. If you have talent or want to see attractive women, you’d be better off choosing the company next door—or anywhere other than here.