Workplace reviews and discussion: 普拉瑞斯創意整合有限公司

* Meet people from different professional backgrounds, face common enemies together through difficult times, complain to each other, and help each other.

* Learn to integrate and multitask; find ways to learn everything—both what should and should not be learned.

1. A senior executive has no filter

Then insults employees’ clothing, calls employees stupid, and attacks their character. In front of multiple people, this person says female employees are annoyingly chatty. You have to be sufficiently submissive to get along with this senior executive.

2. The company’s own official website is a mess

The company runs an advertising and marketing agency and handles marketing for clients, yet apparently did not know that thorough preparation was needed before launching the new official website. After the new website was rushed online, its rankings could not improve and the SEO could not get off the ground. Even the internal engineers considered it a hot potato. Later, employees were blamed for not generating any inquiries, and then threatened that the old website would be restored if there were no inquiries—an endless vicious cycle.

3. Your value as an employee depends on how well you talk

If you work at this company, it is advisable to have the ability to flatter people and the communication skills of a salesperson, as well as an outgoing personality and strong verbal skills. Otherwise, you may be disparaged as completely worthless. Even if you do your assigned work well, you may still be rated as a useless employee.

4. Everyone has to be a salesperson

Privately, the company complains about employees who ask for raises. It is difficult to get a raise before bringing in business. The company hopes everyone—including technical staff and designers—is in sales; everyone is expected to find a way to bring money back to the company.

5. Company culture

* Learning should be done after work hours.

* Meetings are held weekly and monthly. There was once a seven-hour meeting, all spent listening to a senior executive talk nonsense; four of those hours were spent trying to convince employees that holding meetings on Saturdays would be more efficient.

* Constantly indoctrinates employees with “you have to give first before you can receive.” First, work overtime and contribute your labor; only then will you have a chance at a raise. (Work overtime first, come in on Saturday for pointless meetings, and let them see you contribute your fresh liver first; then you receive a ticket for a “possible raise.”)

P.S. No matter how many hours of overtime you work, your salary already includes prepaid overtime pay for “deferred overtime.”

6. High turnover; the company believes it is always the employees’ fault that talent cannot be retained

The company has between 35 and 45 employees. Over the past three years, an average of 30 people have left each year, and around 20 people left within six months of joining. The turnover rate is extremely high.