Workplace reviews and discussion: 緯創軟體股份有限公司

1. The company has an impressive corporate presence.

2. The pay depends heavily on the department and assignment location, but the salary is slightly higher than that of small and medium-sized companies elsewhere (if you have work experience, you’ll definitely notice the difference when you join).

3. The administrative procedures are very fast XD (purely my personal impression)

I was assigned to a well-known foreign communications company whose name starts with N.

1. This foreign company does not provide comprehensive training.

(The person responsible for training was working with equipment and networks all day, leaving a very poor first impression. He even claimed to have more than 10 years of experience—ridiculous.)

On the first day, I went to the foreign company’s headquarters to meet the colleagues working on the same project.

On the second day, I went to the assigned site.

2. The senior colleague responsible for guiding newcomers also did not proactively assign tasks or share technical knowledge, but only told new hires to keep reading the documentation (they considered this perfectly reasonable).

(Honestly, encountering someone like this right after arriving at the assigned site was really frustrating = =|||

At other companies’ assigned sites, even when all the technical materials are in the original language, the person responsible for training will usually organize a few useful documents in advance for newcomers to reference, at least giving them some direction.)

3. The actual work content and responsibilities were not the same as what was discussed during the interviews with the foreign-company manager and Wistron personnel.

The actual work still had to be assigned by the project-site leader.

(This was undoubtedly misleading to job seekers.)

Later, when I discussed this matter with the foreign-company manager, he said that during the interview, he had explained that I would only get to work on the things I wanted to do when the next new project came along.....

(So that meant only the next project would involve those tasks........)

Later, the foreign-company manager asked whether I wanted to transfer internally to another department or project. I directly told him that I wanted to resign....XD

(Smart people should have figured it out by this point: I had been brought in to fill a position where they were short-staffed, and the other side simply didn’t care what had been said during the interview。。。)

Also, if their goal at the time was simply to find someone to:

1. Go in and read documentation

2. Work overtime and do miscellaneous tasks

3. Travel to central and southern Taiwan

Then they might as well have hired a fresh graduate!

Later, after my leader found out that I had joined with a very high salary, he immediately told the PM, “Wow, so senior-level employees are getting paid this much now!” I heard him from the side. I had actually wanted to turn around and ask my leader, “So should I keep reading the documentation?” w? XD

4. When dealing with older engineers, they would constantly boast about how capable they were (e.g., having worked at certain places... being known throughout the industry..... having worked on major projects, etc.). Well~ perhaps they wanted to gain everyone’s recognition or create a sense of connection. They would also tell everyone that the project couldn’t function without them, and that if they stopped working, everyone else would stop too, or things along those lines.

(Their age speaks for itself—what could I say? XD)

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Conclusion: Overall, my experience during my employment was very poor. It’s hard to imagine this being a foreign company. (More specifically, I don’t think it was any better than other IT or technology companies, whether in terms of the assigned-site environment or the company’s systems.)

Anyway, if you’re interested in developing a career in communications, you can join~~