1. There’s not much office politics, and everyone is generally polite.

2. The company places a lot of importance on employee training. From time to time, there are small activities where they give out gift vouchers worth a few hundred dollars.

3. The company has non-Taiwanese members, so don’t be afraid to talk to them—you can learn a lot.

4. “Most” of the colleagues are very nice and willing to spend time communicating.

5. Unlike a hardware company, this is a software company. If you can tough it out, you can really learn a lot from your colleagues.

6. The chairs are seriously comfortable, no complaints lol

1. One marketing department has no manager, so everything has to be coordinated with the general manager and vice president. There’s basically no one to deal with your problems in a timely manner.

2. The company does arrange training, but the vast majority of things require you to learn on your own in silence. Even if you have the courage to ask, your colleagues are already scrambling to put out their own fires and have no time to help you.

3. At the beginning, HR will do everything they can to cut your salary. You end up earning less than others while doing three times as much work as usual. Even if you report to a manager, they basically won’t help handle anything—you have to deal with every bit of grunt work yourself. (Of course, you don’t get a manager’s salary.)

4. The workload and breadth of the position’s responsibilities are absurdly extensive. It’s normal to take unfinished work home, and overtime is the norm. Even senior colleagues often reply at 11 or 12 p.m. on Friday nights, or respond on weekends. On the surface, you’re paid by the hour, but in reality you’re expected to work overtime regularly. And, sorry, there’s no overtime pay. If you don’t finish something, you’ll be harshly criticized over the weekend.

5. Even though it’s a 20-year-old company, senior colleagues often still don’t understand what the boss is thinking, and disagreements in approach frequently arise. Things that should be standardized require senior colleagues to repeatedly set aside time to teach others without compensation. It’s extremely inefficient and also makes it more difficult for new hires to learn.

6. In the position I originally held, three people could leave within a year, not counting me.

7. Although the company does business overseas and has foreign employees, its thinking is still very old-fashioned.

8. Layoffs are also very sudden. You could still be in a meeting in the morning and be told in the afternoon that it’s your last day, with HR immediately coming over to arrange your resignation. That same evening, your company accounts are deleted, which shows they have a lot of experience doing this kind of thing.