Workplace reviews and discussion: 元晶太陽能科技股份有限公司

The Taipei headquarters has a pretty good environment. Da-Ping-Lin MRT station is right outside, and every day the reception desk sends out an email to help order boxed lunches.

1. The promise made during the interview that there would be a bonus equivalent to half a month's salary for each of the three major holidays was a lie; they couldn't even pay out the year-end bonus.

2. The marketing manager doesn't know the first thing about marketing.

3. As others have said, this company has more managers than employees.

4. The four purchasing staff at the Taipei office—two senior and two junior—act as if they are superior; they often ignore you even when you greet them.

5. The company claims both externally and internally to be a leader in optoelectronics, but it has led to all the employees running away; someone leaves every month.

6. At this company, people with connections survive longer than those without them.

7. The company releases news about making money internally for everyone to see, but negative news such as labor union strikes and falling stock prices is covered up, creating a hypnotic atmosphere of an extreme echo chamber.

8. The company doesn't pay bonuses to lower-level employees, but people connected to the chairman or those who know how to flatter their superiors can get promoted and receive raises. Every month, you can see HR announce who has been promoted (those who were already managers just keep moving up), while people at the bottom remain forever at the lowest level of the caste system. So the company withholding bonuses doesn't hurt the people at the top at all, because their base salaries are already more than enough.