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Very close to the MRT station
Regarding the previous response, many of the points were based on personal factors. It should be said that many companies have those kinds of problems, but the pressure of working here is indeed very high.
That’s how small companies are. It’s very common for different positions to have to work together, but the marketing project department is the most unfortunate here. They often have to work overtime, and are also suddenly assigned additional work.
There’s no need to ask during the interview whether you’ll often have to work overtime—I can say that “you definitely will, very often.” There is overtime pay, but of course supervisors won’t report all of your overtime for you. Whether you worked overtime is based on “what they think,” not “what you think.” If they don’t tell you that failing to finish the work is a problem with your execution ability, they’ll ask you to take the work home, even on Saturdays and Sundays. Naturally, there is no overtime pay for weekends.
(A brief explanation for all new graduates: “As long as you are working, even if you are working at the company, you should be paid overtime. Whatever is legally required to be reported should be paid. Companies like this do exist.” Don’t let exploitative bosses fool you by saying, “No such company exists.” However, don’t expect this in the marketing industry—almost all of them require overtime without paying overtime wages.)
Also, if you want to come work here, you need to have strong stress tolerance—very strong. And don’t think that you’ll be able to learn a lot here. They’ll definitely expect you to finish the work first; whether they teach you or not is a secondary matter.
However, I don’t agree that you “can’t learn anything at all” here. But looking back, I’ve worked at companies that were this difficult, so it seems there’s nothing particularly difficult that could bring me down. It’s just about this exhausting.
And don’t expect much from the salary. Only the engineers’ salaries are a little higher; for entry-level employees in other departments, just treat it as practice. Management will tell you the same thing.