Workplace reviews and discussion: 睿智通機器人股份有限公司

1. There are many foreigners here, and they are all easy to get along with. The foreign managers are also very nice.

2. It is said that you can use English frequently.

3. It’s a robotics company, which sounds really awesome~~

4. You don’t have to clock in at work. Work starts at 9:00, but you can come to the office after 10:00 if you want. There is a female employee at the company who always does this.

5. You can receive stock dividends after the IPO.

Actually, this company is Quan Zhi Tong Robotics, Aeolus Robot. I don’t know what happened, but supposedly it has changed its name several times. Every time, they say it is to avoid one thing or another.....It just feels very strange; a legitimate company should not operate this way.

Senior executive A was lucky and managed to make a fortune while working at a software company. He later worked at Lite-On and Quanta, but his true abilities were quickly exposed, and he left hastily not long afterward. He often considers himself superior to others and likes to question people with some of his foolish yet self-proclaimed brilliant ideas. However, because he is the boss, no one dares to tell him the truth and can only remain silent. As a result, he becomes even more self-righteous.

Another senior executive, S, has a finance background and knows virtually nothing about products, but is afraid of being exposed, so he tries to act as though he understands everything. At every company-wide meeting, the two of them put on an approachable and open-minded facade, as if everything were open for discussion. However, they blur employees’ opinions by spouting grand but impractical principles. Over time, everyone stopped wanting to raise problems, and meetings feel like self-congratulatory performances.

1. Management: The company’s management is seriously problematic. There is one set of rules for Taiwanese employees and another for foreigners. I once heard that when people went on business trips together, foreigners got one room each, while Taiwanese employees had to share two to a room. The salary structures are also different: Taiwanese employees’ salaries are divided over 14 months, while foreigners’ salaries are paid directly over 12 months. The people who exploit and bully Taiwanese employees are Taiwanese themselves. It is truly pathetic; these old Taiwanese employees like to use their seniority to take advantage of others. Externally, they package Quan Zhi Tong as a foreign company and claim to follow a foreign-company management style, but in reality it uses an extremely old-fashioned Taiwanese management approach. The pay is also very much like that at a Taiwanese company, and I have rarely heard of anyone getting a raise. They make ESOAP sound as if it were very valuable, but it is actually just a piece of wastepaper.

2. Stock: They constantly brainwash employees by saying that the company will IPO in X years, but the timeline keeps being postponed, and they are always painting an overly rosy picture. Regardless of how hard new employees work, the number of shares they receive is pitifully small. At market value, the shares allocated in a year might not even be enough to buy a second-hand iPhone.

3. Products: There has never been a comprehensive review or plan for a medium- or long-term roadmap, and the required specifications are changed again and again. Problems are handled reactively, treating the headache rather than the cause. Every schedule they announce is extremely rushed, and after everyone works hard to complete it, the PM says that something else is more urgent... The main reason is that he himself has no clear understanding of the product direction. In the end, priorities are based on whatever keeps him from being criticized. They always impose impossible deadlines, and raising concerns is useless. Eventually, people simply give up; if things do not work out, they can just pat themselves on the rear and leave.

4. Talent: Senior management constantly claims to value talent, but in practice they never treat employees as assets. They treat people more like paper towels in a restroom: when they need you, they ask about your well-being every day; once they get what they need and have used you, they throw you aside and ignore you.

5. Outlook: When people first joined, everyone hoped to create a different kind of industry. In reality, no matter which generation this robot is, it has very little practical functionality.....To put it bluntly, it has little real artificial intelligence (AI) capability. For example, if you move the robot to an unfamiliar new environment, place a cup on a table three meters in front of it, and expect the robot to bring the cup to you, it cannot do so without pre-written hard code....... They used investors’ money to build a robot that can move and looks very cool, then use it to attract even more funding—basically waiting for whichever wealthy backer has money to burn to take the bait.....

I have never heard anyone discuss future mass production and shipments, because everyone believes that a design like this cannot be mass-produced. There is far too much to list. The experience accounts written by the senior employees above are very vivid and dramatic, but they are all true....