The colleagues are all very nice. When personal interests aren’t involved, the work atmosphere is great, and everyone is good friends.

If you’re looking to gain work experience and practice your skills without caring about the salary, this place will be very suitable for you!

If you’re a workaholic and don’t know what to do in your free time, this place will be very suitable for you!

If you want to expand your network and make friends, this place will be very suitable for you!

If you want to start your own business and become a boss in the future, and want to learn how to run a business and strengthen your mental resilience, this place will be very suitable for you!

If you like organizing and participating in events, this place will be very suitable for you! Conversely, if you don’t like events, think carefully.

This place really needs people who are capable of everything. That’s a common problem at small companies, but you can learn a great deal here. Your salary at your next job should be pretty good (if you’re willing to learn), and you won’t be punished here for making mistakes. You can take this opportunity to try out some types of work you’ve wanted to do.

Every month, the boss and the COO cook for everyone.

There is an annual year-end banquet and employee trip.

There are snacks left over from company worship ceremonies that employees can eat.

You can drink two bottles of 金色三麥 beer every month.

There are approximately two charity events each year.

There were two internal training sessions last year.

After events end, we generally eat stir-fried dishes and drink alcohol.

The interior decoration is beautiful, and the sofas are soft and comfortable for sleeping.

New employees get a new MacBook Air to use (not guaranteed).

The sales department provides training; I’m not sure about the other departments.

They say they want to establish processes, but how many people actually follow them?

They say they want everyone in the company to develop a sense of accountability and work hard as if the company were their own, but they don’t offer corresponding salaries or profit sharing?

They say they want to raise salaries, but how many people have actually received adjustments? Even when they want to recruit capable people, they aren’t willing to offer high salaries.

Recently, the CTO has been widely posting recruitment notices in various technology communities. The responses from netizens are truly thought-provoking. I wonder when this will finally come to the boss’s attention. The new CTO is also quite pitiful; he doesn’t have many good cards to play and can only be besieged by netizens, with the posts eventually being deleted.

The boss has many beautiful dreams and ideas, but when put into practice, they all turn into various forms of exploitation and oppression.

There is no reasonable workload, only an endless stream of unfinished tasks and criticism of employees. Then, when employees are about to resign, they say that young people are fragile strawberries.

Although overtime can be requested, the request must be submitted before 5 p.m. on the same day, and you must know at the time of application how many hours of overtime you will work. If it doesn’t match the clock-in records, the request will be rejected.

When there are collaboration issues at work and you raise them with your supervisor, some supervisors won’t handle them. They only respond once things can no longer be covered up.

You have to clock in and out. You can make up a missed punch only three times per month; beyond that, you have to take one hour of personal leave. Recently, due to pandemic-related issues, you also have to fill out a health form after work. If you don’t fill it out, it counts as failing to clock out and you have to take leave.

You cannot request annual leave on the same day, and sick leave requires the original receipt.

Any expense requires going through the process, and you also have to apply with enough time. Otherwise, employees have to pay upfront themselves.

There is a review saying that the company doesn’t value technical talent. Although it was written four years ago, I personally feel that this is still the case.

Requirements keep changing. Often, something is one way this month and changed the next, making the code increasingly difficult to maintain.

Specifications are often incomplete or contain errors, which aren’t discovered until verification. In the end, engineers still have to spend their own time fixing them.

Most of the PMs here can’t program. They often say astonishing things, and when you explain things to them, they neither understand nor want to listen. Communication is exhausting. In the end, you no longer want to communicate—just make the changes, and let the delays happen.

I’d like to share a few classic quotes. Other colleagues are welcome to add more:

“I'm paying your salary! You have to work for me even at home at night!”

“An engineer told me that developing a feature would take several days. If the feature has bugs and can’t be used after those days, didn’t I pay those days’ salary for nothing?”

“There are only 24 hours in a day. No matter how much you cram in, there are still only 24 hours.”

“Someone can achieve 100 points, but because of family obligations can only achieve 60 points. I don’t want people like that.”

“You created the bug, so handle it on your own time. That’s reasonable, right?”

“Isn’t one to two hours a day enough for you to hand over all the projects?”

“If this engineer can’t write it, then fire them and replace them!”

Someone replied in a chat discussion, ‘I think the boss is the problem.’ That statement is absolutely right and hits the blind spot squarely. The only inaccurate part is that the CTO has already been replaced twice. Those interested can take a look.

I hope this post helps people who are considering the company. Current and former employees are also welcome to discuss and offer feedback rationally.