Workplace reviews and discussion: 可思科技有限公司

1. You can ask colleagues about work-related questions, and they are all happy to share (but don't take up too much of their time—the boss cares a great deal about work efficiency).

2. Regardless of whether your position is art, front-end, back-end, or PM, as long as you can endure hardship, you can learn a lot here. It's a good place to get up to speed early on.

3. If you're a woman, the boss will give you extra help and often come over to chat with you. Men, toughen up.

4. On the programming side, there is already a fixed e-commerce template. Once you get familiar with it, modifications can be made much more quickly.

1. The boss likes to make grand promises. The bonuses and raises sound wonderful, but in reality, well... unless you're confident that your team can meet those unrealistic standards.

2. PMs have a tremendous number of responsibilities:

Wireframe production: After creating them, relay them to the art designers and the front- and back-end teams.

Client requirements integration: Understand the client's functional requirements, confirm feasibility with engineers, and organize and plan progress reports for management.

Feature acceptance testing: Once the front- and back-end integration is complete, the PM is responsible for accepting all features.

Client management: Deal with clients' complaints, yelling, arguments, and communication gaps.

Team management (team leader): Control and supervise the progress of each role on the team and prepare reports. However, you may also be a PM, artist, and front- and back-end developer, giving you the experience of wearing many hats.

After-sales management: Resolve all issues during the maintenance period (websites, program bugs, servers, advertising, and new requirements).

3. The turnover rate is extremely high: on average, two people leave each month. But this is a small startup (around 15–25 people), so the colleagues who join at the same time as you—or your coworkers—may well be gone within a few months.

4. There are two bosses, allowing you to experience two ways of implementing one problem, two calculation standards for the same thing, and two different explanations. Company rules can be changed at will and implemented as soon as the following month.

5. Salary reviews and raises happen once a year. Unless your contribution is very high, you'll only receive a small adjustment.

6. It's a small project-based contracting company, and the pace is so fast that you may not be able to keep up. It's normal for each person to have 3–5 projects at once—in other words, you're expected to arrange and handle multiple projects simultaneously, but you don't get paid more for it!

7. The office is small, so enjoy the feeling of being monitored. The restroom is old and cramped. If you want to slack off, keep your eyes open; if you're caught, you'll be lectured and criticized on the spot.

8. The boss is poor at management, evades important issues, has low emotional intelligence, and doesn't know how to reflect. If you want to stay for a long time, avoid any direct confrontation with the boss.

9. The boss in charge of business development is poor at managing people, so you'll have to fend for yourself. If you're a salesperson with no prior experience, this place is very unsuitable for you. Moreover, the company's business development is weak, and the people who get criticized will only be the sales staff below him—because he's the boss!

10. Employees are not respected: declining performance -> management failure -> excessively high costs -> immediate layoffs! If you don't want to be the one affected, bring your absolute best effort. The boss's philosophy is not about developing people, but about efficiency and return on investment: low performers are decisively fired; as long as they can find someone else, that's enough.

11. Back-end developers handle everything under the sun: websites, servers, advertising, other people's bugs, social media setup, general office errands, and more.

Summary: In terms of learning opportunities in each role, PM and back-end offer the most to learn but are also the most painful (back-end work covers a broad range but is relatively shallow). For business development, enter only if you have experience. There is limited to learn on the front end. Every role requires you to accept 3 highs and 2 lows (high pressure, a fast pace, a heavy workload, low salary increases, and low bonuses).