Workplace reviews and discussion: Allion_百佳泰股份有限公司

This is just our department; I don’t know about the others.

1. Flexible working hours (seems like they’re going to cancel this)

2. The office atmosphere is pretty good, much like a university classroom. You can briefly check your phone or chat while working; if you want to take a break, you can go out and walk around for five minutes, as long as you don’t disappear. The manager won’t interfere.

3. More than 99% of coworkers are between 20 and 30 years old, so there are no older employees pulling rank based on seniority.

4. Interns can leave on time as long as they don’t work overtime; full-time employees may be delayed by 10–20 minutes.

5. Free boxed meals are provided for working overtime at night.

6. Suitable for fresh graduates to build up their skills before changing jobs.

8. There’s a 7-ELEVEN vending machine; prices are NT$3–5 cheaper than outside, but no receipts are issued.

9. Stable and comfortable.

1. The salary is far too low. On PTT, there was a case of a master’s graduate from a national university in a non-STEM field applying and being offered only a little over NT$30,000. That tells you how low the pay is here. However, if you have a bachelor’s degree in a STEM field, the salary will definitely start with a 3—but only barely.

2. Overtime can be fully reported, but it is paid once every three months rather than in the same month.

3. The company does not subsidize lunch. Ordering a boxed meal costs NT$40, and the area around the company in Nantou is extremely remote, so many coworkers order delivery.

4. There is not much of a barrier to joining this company. As long as you have strong foreign-language skills or basic computer knowledge, having either one of these is enough to get in. That is why many people in the testing department studied foreign languages.

9. There are many part-time workers and interns, making up around 60% of the department. As mentioned above, the requirements are very basic, so you get people who are very strong in English but know nothing about electronics or information technology, and others who are the opposite. Very few people have both skills—and those who do would not come here anyway XD

5. Labor law requires a 30-minute break after four hours of work, but the company’s afternoon working hours are from 1:00 to 6:00.

6. A typical family-run business: when it comes to money, the people above make the decisions.

7. Overtime is very common.

8. Your job title after joining may not be exactly the same as the one you applied for; you may start as an “assistant” engineer.