Workplace reviews and discussion: 欣臨企業股份有限公司
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The group represents a great many international brands, and a PM position is very suitable as a stepping stone to your next job.
Applicants are advised to first find out exactly which company they would be joining, and to clearly ask what brand and job responsibilities they would be handling.
- No systems or structure; it is a family business where the family has total control, filled with a culture of superficial political correctness and one-person rule.
- No strategy: treating symptoms instead of causes, taking things one day at a time, and sweeping matters under the rug whenever possible without regard for the facts (I even learned the abbreviation “BS” here!).
- There are many unaccountable, redundant employees at every level.
- Absurdity is the norm here; currying favor, flattery, burying one’s head in the sand, and being a sycophantic conformist are the ways to survive.
- The laughable company values are “fairness, friendship, and excellence”; their antonyms are the real truth.
- The company’s hardware and equipment are terrible overall. It uses difficult-to-operate old systems and laptops that regularly crash with no solution.
- The PM’s work covers everything, from A to Z, as a one-stop shop. You are expected to know every kind of subject (finance, management accounting, procurement, international trade practices, food regulations and labeling, marketing, customer service, warehouse management, and so on)—both what you can imagine and what you cannot. There is no customer service department, so PMs are the customer service themselves, and there is no legal department either. The whole company is full of “excellent” redundant employees. There is no such thing as training; PMs are simply expected to know everything. If you answer that you do not know or cannot do something, prepare to be chewed out. You may then also be held retrospectively responsible for all the unresolved, poorly handled messes and liabilities from before you joined the company or before you took responsibility for the matter.