The only advantage is that because the company needs disposable employees, it hires mostly young people. As a result, young employees have plenty of common topics, and the workplace atmosphere is also very fun.
1. Overtime is routine. Since my first week at the company, I have never left work on time. The scheduled end time is 6 p.m., but in practice, leaving after 7 p.m. is considered normal.
2. The supervisor does not care what the department staff think. Whatever they say is treated as correct, and whenever someone disagrees, they will argue until they win.
3. New tasks are frequently assigned at the last minute, regardless of employees’ current workload. Finishing the work well and on time is considered the bare minimum; if you cannot, it is treated as personal negligence. They never consider that we have already reported being unable to handle the workload.
4. There is no employee training whatsoever. You have to figure everything out yourself. If you make a mistake, you only receive a barrage of criticism; even if you do things correctly, you receive no praise because that is considered what you should do.
5. The company is extremely stingy with internal costs. When you claim overtime pay, the supervisor acts as if you are slacking off and stealing wages. After working for nearly a year, my year-end bonus was only NT$2,000, the same as a part-time employee’s. I asked colleagues who had worked there for more than two years, and their year-end bonuses were not even half a month’s salary. Their pay was only NT$2,000 higher than a new employee’s, yet they were criticized every day and told that since they earned more than others, they should do more work. At the year-end banquet, they said everyone would receive a prize, but all the prizes were gifts donated by clients. They are truly very stingy.
6. Company rules are ignored. As long as the client pays enough, you are forced to do a pile of tasks that should not be your responsibility, and you have no right to refuse.
7. The company claims to provide a five-day workweek, but in reality, even during the Lunar New Year, the supervisor will ask employees to work overtime from home to create the image that the company places special importance on clients. Clients also frequently call after work, sometimes even after 10 p.m., to request work.
8. Cross-department disputes are constant. Consultants often take on projects just to make money and then wash their hands of them. Whenever a problem arises, they immediately blame the execution team, while the supervisor is also the first to criticize employees in their own department for poor performance.
9. The snack cabinet is never fully restocked, bonuses have never been paid, and there is no bonus for returning to work after the holidays. All the benefits are essentially fake. The only real things are excessive unpaid overtime and the rats in the office that never seem to go away.
10. Employees are treated like disposable chopsticks and have no prospects for development. Want to learn marketing-related knowledge? Want a raise? Forget it. They will even tell you to keep working during your breaks, and they will not let you off even when you are on vacation or have resigned.
BTW, if you have worked here, you know that the company’s positive online reviews are fake—they were all generated by fake accounts and bots. For everyone’s sake and future, do not apply or interview for a position at this company; you will truly waste a significant part of your precious life. The best way to judge whether a company is worth staying at is to look at the senior employees, but this company has very few people who have stayed for more than a year, and they complain every day about wanting to resign. Do you really think this is a company worth staying at?