Workplace reviews and discussion: QNAP_威聯通科技股份有限公司

It seems no one has mentioned the situation at the Design Center, so I’ll give a brief introduction. Since I left the company quite a long time ago, the actual current situation may have changed. The company still operates under a BU structure; it’s just that the design department became an independent Design Center. At the time, the Design Center had two departments: the Interaction Design Department and the User Experience Department, located in Hsinchu, Xizhi, and Xinsheng. The Design Center had only one manager, who oversaw both departments, with no intermediate supervisors. Also, if I remember correctly, the official website belonged to the Marketing Department, and the two departments would assist with visual production when necessary. Personally, I found my colleagues in the design departments quite easy to get along with. Whenever someone raised an issue, everyone helped one another, and they would also remind you how to interact with colleagues from other departments. I think what everyone is probably more interested in is the design manager, so I’ll briefly describe my impression of him:

-Interview: He constantly asked what other work and experience you had, what your family members did, and whether you smoked or drank. He was very friendly.

-Temperament and personality: Spoke loudly, straightforward, energetic. His emotions came and went quickly. He had the extremely practical and frugal personality commonly associated with Hakka people.

-Managerial responsibilities: To cultivate subordinates into junior managers, he would assign some of his work to you and provide very careful guidance by drawing diagrams on a whiteboard.

-Regular meetings: To ensure colleagues knew how each project was progressing, he enthusiastically introduced the details for every person in charge.

-Leadership approach: He offered thought-provoking advice and trained colleagues to take independent responsibility for projects, personally facing feedback from the boss or managers of other departments.

-Design decisions: He liked choosing unconventional directions for decisions, encouraging colleagues to actively consider the best solutions.

-Relationship with upper management: He was highly capable of understanding the thoughts of the chairman or general manager and quickly informing subordinates how to respond.

-Work allocation: He had a particular allocation cycle that trained colleagues to handle multiple projects simultaneously and resolve issues quickly.

-Project reviews: He pretended not to understand the specifications, but cared deeply about details, thereby training colleagues to be able to state the complete design specifications at any time.

-Design skills: He was highly proficient in all kinds of specialized UI/UX details, which was astonishing. He especially liked using Excel to organize various analysis charts and systems.

-Visual presentation: He placed great importance on communication and had unique insights. Basically, he had delegated all computer illustration work to colleagues, using simple pencil sketches to make suggestions.

-Department evaluations: He would make a great effort to understand the circumstances of past projects, with each review taking at least two to three hours.

-External collaboration: He had great trust in the abilities of PMs and RDs, and would occasionally help them learn UI/UX knowledge so they could become T-shaped professionals.

-Overtime: He would call you to tell you when you needed to work overtime, turning you into a responsible senior designer.

-Employment situation: After receiving approximately six months of training, most people definitely had the ability to join any company as a senior employee.

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