Workplace reviews and discussion: VoiceTube_紅點子科技股份有限公司

1. Human-centered management

2. Operations run normally

3. Everyone gets along well

4. No bullying

5. Smooth cross-department communication

6. There is a development process in place

7. No meteor development

8. Information is kept in sync

9. When requests are made, upper management listens seriously and responds

The above “advantages” are all sarcasm.

Let me share about the lousy job I stuck with for two years: “Senior Backend Engineer.”

1. After the mass layoffs, there was no handover of documentation, so backend engineers had to track the code for everything.

2. There was a massive amount of technical debt, which caused many operational problems that backend engineers also had to solve.

3. The code’s coding style was jokingly called the “Eight-Nation Allied Forces” (caused by hiring a bunch of people in 2019).

4. A major layoff happened halfway through a redesign, resulting in two versions of the API being used in production, while the database tables were different.

5. PHP developers were already scarce, so they could never find enough people.

6. Nobody handed over the code.

7. A lot of development delays and operational problems accumulated, all of which got stuck with the backend. Management always responded with one sentence: “There are no backend resources.”

If you want to take over, prepare the famous line from *Katekyo Hitman Reborn!*: “With the resolve to die, fight!”

And don’t forget: it will be even harder to find a job when the economy goes into recession in the next couple of years!