Workplace reviews and discussion: 富邦媒體科技股份有限公司(富邦momo)

Salary is paid on time

The work environment is clean

The space is fairly large

The year-end bonus is quite good

Even though the year-end bonus is quite good, because this is considered a back-office unit (the design department), the base salary is ridiculously low, and there are basically no opportunities for promotion or salary increases. Even if there is a raise, it is based on the senior manager’s personal impression of you. Although they always say it depends on individual job performance, there are so many people under the senior manager, and the senior manager is on a different floor from us, so evaluating performance is completely unfounded. Even if you solve a whole host of problems for your colleagues, teach them many technical skills, or other department heads and PMs think your work is excellent, none of this is included in the assessment of individual performance. Even more contradictory is that your work has to suit the senior manager’s tastes, be completed quickly, and also be liked by the managers on the PM side. If it does not suit our senior manager’s tastes, you will be told that you have not improved. In particular, the senior manager did not graduate from a related field and does not understand the aspects that need to be considered in design or the difficulties that may arise, so all you can do is flatter the senior manager as much as possible! Maybe if they are in a good mood, they will give you a tiny raise next year.

As for the work, the company computers cannot access the external internet directly; you have to use jump-host software to access it. This causes the technical level of the work to stagnate, and efficiency can never improve. Many convenient online tools are completely unavailable. Even after connecting to the external internet through the jump host, domains are still blocked. Yet the senior manager always expects you to work faster and wants you to improve your technical skills independently. Without being able to directly use tools that could improve efficiency, everything is merely theoretical. The pace and schedule are also extremely, extremely tight, fast, stressful, and tense. After work, you have no energy left for self-directed learning and improvement, and you may even have to be on call to handle bugs during your days off. Because you are required to rush things out beforehand, there is simply no time afterward to debug. Every day at work feels like being a walking corpse in an extremely high-pressure environment, constantly being pushed down from all sides until you doubt yourself and question your life. You may even have to hypnotize yourself into believing that this is about improving and challenging yourself in order to keep going.

Finally, I sincerely advise the senior colleagues who are still at your company to escape your “comfort zone” as soon as possible. After leaving, I discovered that salaries outside are much better than here, technical skills can advance much more, and one’s perspective becomes far broader. With your experience, you can definitely find better jobs. Do not become disconnected from the technology outside, or when you finally want to move on, you may discover that you have fallen far behind the times and regret that you do not know how to use many tools.

Finally, here is some advice for newcomers considering joining your company. It is perfectly fine to join and gain experience: you can develop your ability to withstand pressure, your efficiency, and your basic software skills. The section chiefs and colleagues are all very nice and can definitely provide you with a great deal of help, so do not be afraid to ask questions. You need to be able to quickly memorize certain rules, and you will soon adapt to the pace and environment here. However, I recommend staying for about one or two years before leaving. You can definitely learn a great deal here, whether in terms of personal technical skills, work skills, or interpersonal conduct. This is definitely a good stepping stone.