Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣嘉碩科技股份有限公司

Pros: Couldn't find any

Cons: Too numerous to list

1. Equipment engineers are treated like dogs—dogs ranked even lower than operators. If you're considering applying for an equipment position, don't come. Even the guard's pet dogs have higher status than you; newly hired process engineers barely count as human. The equipment team is perpetually understaffed because the work is brutally demanding. The promised four days on, two days off always turns into five on, one off, and it's still 12-hour shift work.

2. The equipment situation is utterly terrible. Supervisors spend every day figuring out how to build in-house machines and how to cut costs. When equipment fails, they first blame the engineer on duty, without considering why equipment can never obtain the spare parts that you big shots purchased. The in-house machines have an abysmal uptime rate, and work orders are being opened for repairs every day.

3. The sun is blazing hot; everyone has to fend for themselves. Training is worthless—if you don't know how to do something, it's your own damn fault. Equipment turnover is as high as that at [company name redacted], but the pay is even lower. The cushy positions have long been monopolized by entrenched employees. The office is full of people with deputy-manager titles only; whenever problems arise, they push them off, evade responsibility, dodge, and disappear. At 9:00 AM sharp, a crowd of office staff rushes to gather in the restroom. Every time there's a break, the rush to the restroom makes you wonder whether there's an outbreak of food poisoning or some contagious disease inside the company.

4. The process engineers in a certain department are damn good at slacking off. Equipment has to solve the product yield problems; equipment has to solve any product problems; equipment even has to make the product fixtures for you. Whenever there's a problem, they say, "I don't know how." They completely ignore training, and at exactly 5:00 PM they're ready to leave the company from the parking lot. The other process engineers either shift the blame or play dumb and pretend nothing is happening. From start to finish, everything is equipment's fault—it is always "their" fault.

5. The operators' authority is greater than your boss's. There is takeout and delivery food every day. When there's a problem with a machine, they play dumb and pretend it wasn't them. Damn, are you kidding me? If nobody handled it, the machine and equipment would break down. If you didn't tell me, I'd think the plant was haunted.

6. The company meals are among the worst I've ever eaten. Even more pathetic is that you still have to pay 300 dollars every month to buy the lousy company meals they provide.