Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣番薯傳播事業股份有限公司

✅ Free meals

The company occasionally provides free group meals (part of the meal expenses comes from money collected from employees who are late). Of course, you also need a little bit of luck to happen to be employed during a period when a group meal takes place!

✅ A wide variety of skills

First, you need to be able to accept that the actual work content may differ from what was described when you applied, and you should enjoy learning new things. Then you can learn all sorts of miscellaneous tasks at this company and build up a wide variety of skills—an experience that is not easy to encounter in other workplaces!

✅ Full marks in stress tolerance 💯

As long as you can accept all kinds of criticism, whether reasonable or unreasonable, continue receiving work-related LINE messages after working hours, withstand an environment where more people means more conflict, and be prepared for your every word and action to possibly be distorted… even when you are in dire straits, if you can still stand firm, you will become invincible at handling stress! (You’ll be an invincible Iron Man :))

✅ Able to work independently

You will be responsible for a wide range of things, and many tasks have no SOP. You will have to take your own notes, figure things out for yourself, and try things through trial and error… After repeatedly fighting and losing these battles, you will gain the ability to handle things independently and become indestructibly capable!

✅ Expand your network and improve communication skills

Communicating about work with people from different departments not only lets you add many colleagues on LINE and expand your network, but also requires you to interact with all kinds of colleagues due to business needs. Through communicating tirelessly and doing everything possible to make the other person understand you, your endurance and communication skills will also improve!

✅ Develop adaptability

The media industry changes in an instant, and there are often new possibilities and changes. You must be able to accept sudden new assignments, understand priorities, carve out time from your originally scheduled work, and handle the new tasks. Regardless of whether the new assignment leads to anything afterward, the process will force you to draw out your own potential and complete it, thereby improving your adaptability!

✅ Exciting, novel, and full of challenges

Regardless of which department you are in, you may be invited or required to support filming (for example, by acting as a passerby). At the company, you may see celebrities from television and radio, as well as notable people from all walks of life. You can learn how to receive important guests (welcoming celebrities, making coffee, etc.) and how to interact with them. It is a challenging job. There are many uncertainties in this work, so every day at work is full of the unknown, excitement, and novelty!

It is not recommended that you express your personal ideas. Ideas or opinions you put forward are easily regarded as a failure to cooperate with the company’s operations, let alone whether they will be adopted :) Of course, you can also become more determined with every setback and work hard to fight for the right to express your opinions and exercise your rights. Then your coworkers will look at you differently! Just be prepared to become a lone wolf before you speak up :)

I can’t think of which drawback to mention first for the moment. In short, regardless of whether you have ability or competence, this department wants people who can fit into the company system and department culture and cooperate all the way. As long as you can accept and compromise on everything, this will be a company where you can work steadily until retirement :)

The last point: If you have your own ideas, sensitivity, empathy, and moral principles, it is recommended that you think twice before applying. This place may completely overturn your worldview!