1. Pleasant relationships with colleagues.

2. Free drinks or snacks (worth NT$65) are provided every Thursday.

3. Employees celebrating their birthday that month receive a slice of cake.

4. There is no overtime pay, but you receive NT$120 for dinner.

5. Other benefits are only available after one to one and a half years (please check 104 yourself); it depends on whether you can tough it out.

6. If you work late into the night and have no transportation home, you can charge a taxi to the company.

1. There is no overtime pay. Although the company distributes profit-sharing bonuses every quarter, whether they are paid is entirely up to the company, and the bonus system is completely opaque and operated as a black box. Some people get bonuses while others do not—呵呵.

2. Despite being a design company, there is no air conditioning after 7:30 p.m. because it costs extra to apply for it. As a result, people often work overtime in spaces so stuffy they are nearly suffocating.

3. The boss thinks everything is very simple, so your professional expertise is extremely undervalued here. If you want to learn what frustration and disappointment are, you are welcome to join this big family.

4. Be careful when dealing with a smiling-but-dangerous vice president.

5. The company’s main business is exhibition design. When it takes on other long-term professional work, such as permanent exhibitions, commercial spaces, or public tenders unrelated to exhibitions, it still uses exhibition-oriented thinking and working methods. Its ability to handle crises arising from unexpected situations needs improvement.

6. No one in the Planning Department has planning skills, because the boss thinks writing proposals is a waste of time. Non-exhibition public tenders supposedly do not require time spent writing proposals either, so use your sales ability to negotiate bid-rigging arrangements. Unsurprisingly, the company often loses bids. If you are not one of the boss’s favorites, you may end up taking the blame.

7. The company installs design software, and all of the software is pirated. If you are a designer, after leaving the company you can only request your work in JPG format, and even that request may not be approved. Only the favorites are given relatively good hardware; everyone else gets crappy computers that are never upgraded. If you raise the issue, the feedback you may receive is that it is a problem with your individual ability.

8. When you are assigned a project that requires working until the early morning, you are still expected to arrive at work on time the next day; otherwise, you may be called in to discuss poor attendance.

9. During the interview, take everything you are told with a grain of salt. Regardless of the policies regarding turnover, bonuses, KPIs, salary adjustments, and so on, if they are not written in black and white in the contract, any of them may turn out to be empty promises. The boss’s wife is a lawyer, so you should understand.

10. The company is neither absolutely good nor absolutely bad. The above reflects my experience while working there; you will have to experience it yourself to make your own judgment.