Workplace reviews and discussion: 美商磊新科技有限公司台灣分公司

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1. Low pay and heavy workload

To everyone considering interviewing, I urge you to think it through carefully! This company’s low pay and heavy workload have long been common knowledge in the industry, but I still really wonder where they get the nerve to issue recruitment notices every three months. Once you join the company, you’ll find that there is basically no smooth path to promotion. The company is simply too small: if there isn’t an open position, there won’t be an opportunity. Expansion? You’re dreaming! The owner of this company is notorious for being stingy in the United States. The current manager of the Taipei office has a finance background and studied abroad, yet never stayed overseas. Not only is this person unfamiliar with management, but they also know nothing about the Labor Standards Act or related regulations, and have all kinds of ideas and practices that violate the law. But as our predecessors have said, they never think the problem is theirs and only criticize employees.

2. Senior title, junior-level pay

As mentioned above, this is blatantly an exploitative company. If you enjoy doing several times the workload of a position advertised by an ordinary company while your title never changes and your salary is only about half—or even less—than what other companies pay for the same position, then you are very, very welcome here!

3. High turnover and no path to promotion

As stated in the first point, this company is too small and has too little funding. Even if it actually gets new clients, all you’ll get is more work; there is absolutely no chance for promotion or a raise. At present, the project coordinator position is filled by recent graduates, and people are casually fired for political reasons. The company treats Taiwan’s labor market like a cheap toy. Anyone with a strong tolerance for servility will be very, very well suited to this job!

4. Small scale, lots of office politics

Whether this company wants to employ you or not depends entirely on its whims. They will tell you to leave immediately if they are dissatisfied with you after your probationary period, but in reality it is simply because you failed to win their favor or crossed some so-called hidden red line. In any case, they have thousands of substitutes for you and simply don’t care.

5. Insufficient resources and intense work pressure

This company cannot provide everyone with the same resources, yet believes that as long as you can find alternative solutions, your work should still meet its targets. This has caused some people to leave because they could not tolerate it. However, the company continues to deceive itself. I would not be surprised if someone at the management level stepped forward to defend the company by claiming that no such situation exists. When that happens, I will do everything I can to respond—I certainly won’t let them down.