1. Easy to take time off
2. If you perform normally, the work is stress-free. Since the company has trouble retaining employees, newcomers are treated kindly.
3. Stable salary. There were no unpaid leave arrangements due to the pandemic or international issues. With normal overtime, the annual salary is around 500,000–600,000.
1. Shift work, alternating between morning and evening shifts once a month
2. Long working hours; basically, you rely on overtime to make money
3. Very boring. You cannot use your phone, and there are many older employees who are difficult to chat with.
4. Limited benefits, although there are still some
5. The salary adjustment system depends on whether management likes you. If they do, you have a chance, but the increase is not much—usually around 500.
6. Acting as a substitute does not come with any additional allowance. Team leaders do not earn much more; they only receive a slightly higher year-end bonus, approximately twice that of a technician (still somewhat short of 100,000). The cost-performance ratio is very low.
7. The work-study/co-op student program is unfriendly. The work is the same as, or even more than, that of regular employees, but the pay is at the level of foreign workers.
8. Poor meals; I heard that someone was served food that had gone sour.
9. The equipment is old and frequently has problems.
10. There is no competitiveness. If you are promoted to engineer, it effectively becomes a pay cut because the working hours are different, resulting in nearly one fewer hour of overtime pay each day. Overall, the salary is not much higher. At the team-leader level, there are many more trivial and unpleasant tasks, while the only difference after promotion is a slightly higher year-end bonus. Therefore, this is an advantage for people who prefer to keep a low profile and quietly do their work, but a disadvantage for ambitious people.