Workplace reviews and discussion: 網際威信股份有限公司 內湖科

* No clocking in required

* As long as you have no shame and aren't afraid of being yelled at, you can live pretty comfortably

* You can stay for two years and then jump to a bank; it's a decent stepping stone for beginners

* The right department is heaven; the wrong department is hell

* The boss is both stingy and wants to look grand. From various events to the year-end banquet, everything gives off a tacky, poverty-stricken attempt at grandeur.

* The gifts for the three major holidays are all the boss's wife's “Zhewei” gift boxes. At the year-end banquet, if you want more chances to win prizes, you have to buy the boss's wife's gift boxes to help her meet sales targets in exchange for raffle tickets; otherwise, you'll miss out on half of the raffle time.

* The work is all programming and the difficulty isn't much different, but salaries vary by department. Some departments simply have higher starting salaries. If you join the wrong department, not only are you out of luck, you can forget about promotion too.

* The company's promotion system is a complete mess and depends entirely on the mood of those above. Suck up to the right lazy jerk and you'll get promoted year after year. Skipping over a department director to become a division director isn't a dream. Some people are incompetent and love taking credit, causing a wave of resignations in their department, yet they can still keep rising through the ranks—their official careers just keep rolling along.

* The salary structure is low base pay with high bonuses. Although people have made more money in recent years, year-end bonuses haven't increased proportionally. If the company earns slightly less in a given year... those who know, know. Simply put, it lacks the explosive upside this kind of salary structure should have, and the risk-reward ratio is poor. If you really like this kind of structure, you might as well go work at a bank.

* Here's a little hint: after joining, observe the ratio of RDs, SAs, and PMs in your department. If the PM-to-RD ratio is strange and almost all the RDs have been there for less than two or three years, congratulations—you've landed in the worst department. Run while you can.