Workplace reviews and discussion: 赤天空股份有限公司

■ Design work is genuinely very demanding. If you want to make the most of your strengths, the boss will try to assign you projects suited to your individual talents—provided, of course, that you are capable of handling that level of work. Otherwise, you will be a design specialist or assistant.

■ Salaries vary by rank. The boss really does not hold back when giving out bonuses; you will absolutely receive everything you are supposed to get!

■ New hires can learn all kinds of printing and printing-related skills in a short time. When you need to serve as the lead designer, even if your abilities are not yet enough to handle the design work, the boss will guide you. Of course, you need to be prepared for setbacks. If you cannot take them, you will end up like other design colleagues who start complaining without making any progress. To put it bluntly, veterans in the design field all know that this line of work basically means selling yourself—unless you are skilled enough to start a studio that will not go under and eventually expand into a company, becoming its owner. Otherwise, you are just a miserable employee who constantly complains behind people's backs, and it is the same no matter which company you work for.

■ Event-company work hours are long. Most clients are government officials and are extremely difficult to deal with. The company does not want to offend its clients, so the designers suffer by having to revise designs repeatedly. One or two weeks before an event is absolutely like a battlefield: the work never seems to end, everything has to be rushed, and working overtime every day before the event is unavoidable.

■ All the colleagues I met were great, and the boss was also like a friend. You can bring up problems directly, and the boss will not play mind games with you. Company trips are to expensive destinations costing forty or fifty thousand, and the boss will not keep pressuring people to go. Perhaps the boss wants everyone to be able to go and have fun together as friends in private, but this ends up making the people who do not want to go feel pressured instead!

■ Basically, designers who have trained at this company can say that they become much more versatile after leaving. After all, event companies produce all kinds of things. What you learn from printing alone will make you seem very knowledgeable when you move to another company. These are things I could not have gained at other companies, but the work is extremely demanding. If you do not have the passion to stay in an event company, I advise you not to consider it, regardless of anyone else's evaluation. Also, if you plan to learn a lot and then use this company as a stepping stone, even the people who leave negative reviews say it is pretty good (which is really contradictory—they take everything they can and then keep attacking it).

■ The company allows you to take classes for further education. My previous company did not offer that, and I had to pay for everything myself. Although you still do not have much time either way, designers should continually improve themselves; it is essential!

■ There is no point talking about pros and cons. Entering the design industry means working extremely hard; when you work so hard that you feel like dying, of course you will have complaints. Every company has its less-than-ideal aspects, and here you can say whatever you want—there is no real truth.