Free commuter shuttle buses and incredibly awful lunches

Because most people in the company have terribly poor English skills, the language bonus is quite generous

With a TOEIC score of 400, you can get an extra NT$1,000 per month

Absolutely ridiculous

If you hear keywords such as the Philippines or Dyson during the hiring process, or encounter a short-haired female manager who is thin and has small eyes, decisively give up on the position. New employees are treated with every possible form of care when they first start, but as soon as they realize you can work independently, an endless stream of tasks will follow. In the end, you work overtime every day without seeing any indication that upper management wants to improve things. Most internal emails are communicated in English, but most people’s English is as terrible as shit. They only know the technical terms needed for work; whenever they need to say a complete sentence, the grammar is a complete mess. There are even managers who cannot score 700 on the TOEIC bragging to you that their English has become very good because they frequently communicate with factories and customers in the Philippines. They have no idea that Filipinos’ English is also far from okay. Staying in this environment for too long will only make your English worse. It is incredibly embarrassing. Since everyone’s English is so poor, no one can actually teach the Filipinos well. They can only let them produce piles of garbage every day for the Taiwanese employees to clean up, while we are already extremely busy and still have to answer a bunch of calls every day asking us to solve the factories’ idiotic problems. On top of that, the manager has serious emotional-management problems and refuses to admit it. Things that could be discussed calmly always have to be addressed by yelling at you. Whenever she is in a bad mood, she will suddenly question you about why you did something months ago, as if all the misery in her life were your fault. She also picks fights with other departments at the drop of a hat, thinking she is fiercely defending her own people, when in reality she merely creates a terrible atmosphere in her department and makes all the other departments think we are a bunch of assholes. The company also loves putting on a show. Never mind all the pointless superficial tasks—the internal systems, from optimization to UI/UX design, are unbelievably bad and extremely unintuitive. Even filling out a simple leave or overtime form wastes a huge amount of time. Furthermore, the company claims to comply with labor laws and not arbitrarily make employees work overtime beyond legal limits. In reality, after the 5 p.m. end of the workday, even if you do not go out to eat, they still deduct your meal break first and only start counting overtime from 6:30 p.m. Then the time-clock system automatically stops operating at 10:20 p.m., so regardless of how late employees actually work each day, the system will never record more than four hours of overtime. What a brilliant invention. You can experience all of this within your first six months on the job. Even if you have had enough and want to resign, you will still be subjected to all kinds of pestering and whining. I absolutely cannot understand what kind of mentality or sense of scale it takes for a company with more than NT$10 billion in capital and over 10,000 employees to haggle with a newcomer with less than a year of seniority over those one or two months. You have mistreated me for so long, and now that I want to leave, I still have to be considerate of your feelings? I truly cannot make sense of it.