Houke Factory:

Advantages??? As a mechanical design engineer, the machines will probably have a pile of problems after leaving the factory, which will keep you running back and forth to customers endlessly. Then, when the machine delivery is delayed, the director will kindly teach you how to write a delay report and make you go explain it to the customer. They’ll call it accumulating experience, to put it nicely.

Houke Factory — disadvantages:

1. Unless the entire company gets a salary adjustment, the raise will be pretty miserable. When I was there for more than two years, I only received a three-digit increase. (This is true, no exaggeration…)

2. A company with a high-tech exterior but a traditional-manufacturing core. The owner is quite old, so the thinking can be inconsistent and change back and forth. They always seem to think that young people nowadays are constantly talking about salary… (If you don’t discuss salary at work, are you doing charity?)

3. The employee turnover rate is high; it has already become the norm. It’s the same in every department. (Only section-level supervisors and above tend to have longer tenure; otherwise, the average tenure is probably just one or two years.)

4. The working hours are long—the hours here are no joke. Basically, it’s 11 hours a day! The overtime limits under the Labor Standards Act do not apply at this company. Once you join, you’ll see everyone exceeding the limits, and quite a few people rack up more than 100 hours of overtime.

5. If you take your work seriously, you lose. Why do I say that? Because if you simply work hard, your efforts actually won’t be noticed, since some supervisors will hold back your raises and promotions. Even more absurdly, HR also filters people out, and the ones they happen to reject are often the capable employees. That’s how part of the turnover rate comes about.

I seem to have said quite a lot… The rest is for everyone to discover for themselves!