Workplace reviews and discussion: 大寶國際行銷有限公司

1. The boss has a young mindset and is highly receptive to new things. Occasionally, they take employees out to sing karaoke and eat hot pot.

2. Things are very busy when they are busy—you may not have time to eat or sleep—but very relaxed when they are not. Employee outings and excursions do happen.

3. Resignations are processed quickly. Basically, you can leave in 2–3 days, with no handover period or need to wait for them to hire someone. It is relatively easy to get away.

1. There is no overtime pay for working overtime on weekdays, and no overtime pay for working overtime on holidays either. You only receive compensatory time off. Since things are somewhat busy, the chance of actually being able to take that time off is, well… But at the end of the year, they will settle the accumulated hours and pay you for them—provided you last until the end of the year. Another reason given for not paying overtime is that after a project is completed, bonuses will be distributed according to the profit ratio, supposedly more than overtime pay. However, I only received this once, and it was less than 4,000. Don't be misled by the rhetoric: the company will simply say it did not make money and that, after deducting costs, it broke even.

2. The boss's emotional management needs improvement. They often go from laughing and joking one second to slamming the table and yelling at people the next, and can scold someone for more than 30 minutes at a time. Even if they later realize they were wrong, they cannot bring themselves to apologize and will only laugh it off.

3. You need to purchase Dropbox storage yourself. The company will not cover the cost, claiming it is concerned that employees might store personal files. Would it really be that difficult to create a shared account?

4. The boss has very strong personal religious beliefs. On the second and sixteenth day of every month, offerings must be purchased for worship. Although you will not be forced to worship, the company also takes on many religious or traditional-folk-culture events, so people who do not relate to this should be mentally prepared.

5. Most projects come from public tenders. When the bid deadline is approaching and there is not enough time, the contents of proposals are often copied and adapted from one another. Although they say these are proposals previously written by the company itself, newcomers who want to learn how to write proposals may not receive a well-structured learning process and can only learn through hands-on execution.

6. There is quite a large volume of design work. You are responsible for the key visuals in proposals as well as template-based design materials. After winning a project, you must gradually revise the previously designed materials. Proposal work and execution projects are often handled simultaneously across multiple projects. If you join to hone your skills, you will probably become incredibly fast within less than half a year; otherwise, you may as well forget about going home to sleep.

7. The boss is often out attending meetings and site surveys. Consequently, even if you have already finished your work, there is a high chance that the boss will come back at night and scrap everything, making you start over. Middle management is effectively nonexistent.

8. The turnover rate is high, and it is difficult for anyone to stay more than six months, so handovers are rarely complete. New hires quickly find themselves in chaos and are simply thrown into the deep end.