Workplace reviews and discussion: 緯謙科技股份有限公司

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Last year, the boss repeatedly vowed that the company would offer salaries higher than the market rate to attract capable engineers.

In reality, salaries were still determined using Wistron's salary-setting system, with almost no room for negotiation. More importantly, the final salaries were not actually higher than the market rate.

In an effort to save money, the boss came up with the idea of recruiting third- and fourth-year students majoring in information management or computer science from some lesser-known private universities as interns. After these students joined the company, no senior staff were assigned to mentor them; instead, they were allowed to participate directly in the development of official projects.

Because no one supervised them, these students began picking up bad habits. They had no regard for project schedules and did not care whether deliverables were submitted on time. When the things they produced caused problems—or when they did not do the work at all—the PMs were helpless. As a result, the quality of what this company produced was truly terrible.

After these students graduated, the men could become full-time employees directly after completing their military service. However, the toxic culture created by these students continued to spread throughout the company. The excellent engineers brought in from outside were all driven away by them.

The boss always claimed that these people would be dealt with, but they are still at the company to this day, poisoning its projects.

Since January 2021, the company has continually recruited engineers, while engineers have also continually resigned. Those who remain are still the employees who were converted from interns to full-time staff back then.