Workplace reviews and discussion: 所羅門股份有限公司

When I really think about it, there honestly aren't any. I can only say that the company is fairly impressive, occupying almost all the floors of the entire building. The transportation is also reasonably convenient, located just after coming off Minquan Bridge.

1. There are many salespeople in the company who love to gossip. I had only been at the company for a short time when, before work hours, I went downstairs to the company's convenience store to buy breakfast. A salesperson saw me and immediately ran to complain to a senior colleague in my department... I thought, wasn't it still before work hours? And since you saw me, that means you were also in the convenience store..?

2. The company does not value hardware R&D personnel. I previously took on a government-subsidized R&D project for another department, and as soon as I completed the work, the company laid me off.

3. The VBU department offers very little prospects for people who want to apply for mechanical design positions. It is indeed very easy to pass the interview, but after joining, it is essentially like retirement. The only person in VBU who currently works with me openly said that he is the "jack-of-all-trades," and the company has no intention of mass-producing anything at all. If you want a normal mechanical design job, this may really not be suitable. Do not be fooled by the company's size.

4. Continuing from point 4, the people currently working in VBU's mechanical division have a retirement mindset. I don't know what bad things he went and told the chairman about me, but not long afterward I was laid off. During those six months, no one ever told me what I had done poorly or pointed out anything in my work that failed to meet expectations. They simply listened to someone else's casual comments and fired me without verifying them personally. The severance calculation was also deliberately manipulated through a petty trick so that I received three fewer days of annual leave compensation.

5. A really exploitative large company. Typhoon days off are unpaid, and there are no particularly good benefits. Even the seasonal gift money for new employees is only NT$500 in RT-Mart vouchers.

6. I was originally interviewed and hired for position A, but after joining, I was inexplicably placed under another department to work.

7. When you first join the company, none of the people training you will tell you about the resources available for the job. You have to figure out the vendors and brands entirely on your own. The same things keep getting done repeatedly, which is very inefficient.

8. The company has absolutely no file backups or cloud sharing. This was my first time working in a mechanical R&D position, and I found that all the files were stored locally. Files designed by previous employees were not preserved at all, showing that the R&D data was not managed seriously.

9. No one manages the projects, or the people who do manage them do not understand mechanics or software. The purchase of parts may be blocked by the chairman's son because he considers them too expensive; then, when the delay holds up progress, he criticizes you for that too. The PM is simply a former salesperson who changed careers, and he has no concept of the schedules for part design and software testing.

10. New young employees are ignored. There are project group chats that the chairman's son simply will not add you to for discussions. Another engineer who worked with me acted as if he had no ulterior motives, and even the other software staff liked him and enjoyed chatting with him, but all the credit for the work I did was written into his own weekly reports. He often made sarcastic remarks toward me, and I have no idea what his intention was.