Workplace reviews and discussion: 科榮網路資訊有限公司

I’m in a copywriter/content editor position and have been here for over a year. Everyone can use my perspective as a reference ^_^

1. You can work with marketing content from all kinds of industries, but you won’t become highly specialized in any of them, so it’s suitable for people without work experience who want to explore their career interests.

2. The company uses the 104 system to clock in and submit leave requests, which is quite convenient, and the system is also pretty user-friendly.

3. Basically, once you get the hang of the job, you don’t need to work much overtime. We also don’t need to interact directly with clients, so the pressure isn’t that great.

Basically, those are the only advantages.

These are the disadvantages I started listing one by one from the beginning of my employment; every word comes from the heart.

1. This is a company primarily focused on online marketing, yet the internet frequently disconnects? Employees even have to use their own internet connection to work.

2. The computer equipment is as terrible as it can possibly be—so bad that opening a word-processing program takes a full minute. You can imagine how much patience the work requires.

3. The 104 listing says the promotion system is well established? To be honest, I’ve only received one pay raise since joining the company, and that was after my probationary period. After that, the company never mentioned raises or promotions to me. As for promotions, you have to wait until a planner resigns and a vacancy opens up before you might be “promoted” to planner and receive a tiny pay increase—but your workload and responsibilities will double.

4. I have personally witnessed the boss venting his emotions inappropriately; the boss’s wife also loves targeting people over everything.

5. Neither of the owner couple has a background in marketing. Unless there is currently a very capable marketing manager, what you can learn about marketing techniques will probably be things that were used 10 years ago.

6. The way bonuses are paid can change at any moment. Originally, the previous month’s bonus was paid every month, but suddenly it was changed so that bonuses for several intervening months would be paid only at the three major festivals, without any discussion with employees. The performance scores we fill out each month are also completely opaque—they won’t tell you whether you passed your KPI, so whether you receive a bonus is entirely up to the company. Therefore, when I resigned, the two months of bonuses I should have received somehow turned into nothing because I left before the three festivals. They even claimed that I hadn’t passed my performance assessment?

7. Even if you try to communicate with the boss’s wife using common sense, it’s useless, because she simply doesn’t understand and has no intention of listening.

8. The customer comes first; the fundamental principle is that we must fulfill every customer request. Even though my position didn’t involve facing clients or traveling for work, if a client needed something, I had to go. If I didn’t, I would be called in for a talk for supposedly not being cooperative enough.

9. The workload is already quite heavy, yet we are often asked to do a bunch of pointless tasks that waste working time—for example, explaining to the boss’s wife in exhaustive detail what we do every day and what we plan to do every day for the next month. But she doesn’t actually read it; she just wants the document to exist, while you have to spend a great deal of time preparing it simply to satisfy that demand.

Please think carefully before joining. The boss believes that whatever he says goes. It’s genuinely uncomfortable working at a company whose policies keep changing from one day to the next.