Workplace reviews and discussion: 紳業工業有限公司

My position was sales assistant, with a starting salary of 35K.

There was a simple English proficiency test during the interview, as well as a basic Excel skills test.

After completing the initial tests, I had an interview with a young female manager who wore her hair in a ponytail. There was an English situational conversation, which was fairly simple because the manager herself did not seem to have a very high level of English, so the vocabulary used in the conversation was very basic and not very in-depth.

Overall, people “felt” very friendly and positive.

Think twice before joining!

I didn’t notice any problems within the company during the first week, but issues gradually began to surface during the second and third weeks.

1. I honestly told them during the interview that I had no relevant experience. They were indeed looking for new hires and said they were willing to train me, but the pre-employment training was rushed and not very comprehensive. At first, they simply had you watch training videos and take notes. Although the videos provided basic knowledge, once you actually started working, you would discover that many important details were not covered. There was an assessment every Friday, and you had to take materials home to memorize.

2. The HR person who trained me was fairly patient and would offer advice and answers to work-related questions. However, starting in the second and third weeks, when I began preparing formal trade documents, she would say that many of the issues had already been explained and that I should solve them myself. It felt a bit like being abandoned. Sometimes, when I encountered different situations or was unsure about certain document details, she would dismiss me with the same excuse. The manager was also not very good at training people. She would skip steps when explaining things, and the instruction was sometimes incomplete; otherwise, she would speak extremely quickly. If I asked about something I didn’t understand the next day, she would lose her temper and say, “Didn’t I already explain that last time?” In short, the training was fragmented. In the third week, before I had become proficient or fully learned the work, they already threw winning orders at me to handle. It was completely like forcing a duck onto a perch. Their expectations of new hires were also unfriendly. Expecting an inexperienced newcomer to immediately perform at the level of a veteran after just two or three weeks is simply unrealistic. They might as well hire an expert.

3. The work atmosphere is a little too settled—more like lifeless and dull—and is not suitable for lively, outgoing people. If you are quiet, can tolerate boring and highly repetitive work, and are very submissive, you can work here.

4. If you are in the sales department, you will often hear the young female manager sighing and complaining. Hearing it for a long time will inevitably affect your mood to some extent.

5. There are a great many work-related group chats, and everything is chaotic and disorganized. Responsibilities are sometimes not clearly explained, leaving people below unsure what to do, because who is responsible for what keeps shifting. In addition, employee turnover is consistently very high, so even colleagues who joined earlier may not know about or be familiar with certain matters when you ask them.

6. Before leaving work every day, you have to write a work log to evaluate efficiency—for example, what you did from what time to what time and how long it took. However, multiple tasks are often interspersed during the workday, making this difficult to define. When preparing documents, if the computer lags or runs slowly, you cannot record the time spent beyond the required limit; otherwise, it will be blamed on you. In reality, their computer software is outdated and frequently freezes or takes a long time to run. It seems that the Excel version has not been updated either, so occasional problems arise and it is difficult to use.

7. Employees have to be assigned areas of the office to clean. It feels just like being in elementary school.

8. The office does not provide much stationery, and what is provided is not very useful. Bringing your own pencil case is more practical.

9. Everyone rarely goes to the restroom, and it feels as though people are afraid to leave their desks—as if taking a break to use the restroom were considered slacking off. Sometimes, when you cannot hold it in during work hours and need to have a bowel movement, staying in the restroom a little longer seems to attract strange looks.