Workplace reviews and discussion: 立達國際電子股份有限公司

1. Most colleagues share a strong sense of solidarity and mutual support. Even after leaving the company, they still organize alumni gatherings and other events to stay connected.

2. When the company is in a good mood or desperately needs you, it treats you like a prince or princess.

1. As the reviews below state, the boss is extremely emotional, and no one in the company—from vice presidents to assistants—is spared.

The company’s so-called culture and rules are actually determined by the boss’s mood. When the boss is in a good mood, they may tell you to delegate as much work as possible to junior employees, making things easy for you. But when the boss is in a bad mood, even matters the boss personally reviewed and approved can be blamed on you.

The boss is also extremely authoritarian and single-minded. Hiring decisions are often judged by educational qualifications, while factories are chosen based solely on personal connections and relationships. The boss frequently suspects that employees are challenging their authority and makes baseless accusations that employees are colluding with other companies to sell off the business.

Looking at reviews from other years, the boss has only become worse. In recent years, the turnover rate has been extremely high, yet the boss likes to speak ill of former employees and sow discord. The boss also fabricates various accusations to blame departing employees for responsibility and failed business deals, never acknowledging any fault of their own.

2. As the reviews below state, the boss keeps a tight grip on everything, leaving supervisors without real authority. Matters large and small require personally asking the boss for approval.

However, there is no way to predict when the boss will review something. The boss often deliberately makes things difficult for documents that require spending money or may not appeal to them, citing personal emotions or being too busy. Matters that would not even require review at most companies require half an hour of drafting, followed by reposting the same message in group chats for several consecutive days and hoping for a response. The process is lengthy and inefficient.

Major projects handled by sales managers can be delayed because the boss reviews them too slowly and indecisively, forcing employees to repeatedly apologize to clients.

Even basic office supplies are affected: because the boss refuses to approve spending on them, this is a company that does not provide ballpoint pens, toilet paper, and similar necessities. All employees have to pay for them themselves.

3. As the reviews below state, the company’s systems are highly disorganized and nothing like those of a multinational company that has been established for more than 10 years.

When the company had 60 or 70 employees, as many as 30 or 40 people left in a single year. Work handovers were chaotic and unstructured, forcing existing employees to take on an ever-increasing burden of covering for others.

Work assignments were not based on experience, ability, or personal preference, but on the boss’s mood. Positions or department names were changed once every one or two months on average. Throwing people into roles without preparation was the norm, and constantly replacing people in the same position made progress handovers and follow-up difficult, leading to frequent problems.

It was also common for one person to handle three completely different types of work, often with very little overlap, regardless of their preferences or abilities. Employees were frequently required to act as the boss’s driver, were sometimes called to pick up or drop off the boss at the airport at short notice, or were asked to run personal errands related to the boss’s interests, such as purchasing real estate.

4. As the reviews below state, the computers provided are terrible, and the company’s MIS department is a complete disaster.

The company email system frequently crashes or malfunctions. Even simply sending and receiving emails can bring it down, causing all business operations to grind to a halt in a panic, solely because the company refuses to pay for a cloud system with unlimited storage. The computer equipment is also unbearably outdated. Waiting five to ten minutes for a webpage to open is incredibly frustrating. The scale and source of these problems are unlike anything one would expect at a listed multinational company.

5. As the reviews below state, even payments explicitly approved by the boss are still entirely subject to the boss’s wife’s mood before being released. When she is in a bad mood, she makes all kinds of unreasonable demands and refuses to release payments, stringing employees and suppliers along repeatedly. She also stipulates that documents may be taken to her for stamping only on Wednesday afternoons; bringing them in the morning will result in an arrogant refusal to stamp them. For important documents that require an urgent stamp, employees can only waste time waiting for the boss or his wife to come to the office and then meekly plead with them.

6. The company’s product development progress is extremely slow. Work often comes to a complete standstill because upper management dislikes something and throws a tantrum, making things difficult while refusing to take responsibility or provide specific instructions.

Junior employees are under enormous pressure, constantly trying to guess what upper management wants and mentally preparing themselves to be scolded. Product development decisions can be delayed for more than six months over something as small as a logo the size of a finger.

In addition, treatment within the company varies dramatically depending on one’s position. The e-commerce department, which generates revenue, chats, relaxes, and jokes around every day, while the nearby shipping and production-line teams are frequently subjected to unreasonable demands and rushed deadlines, leaving everyone miserable.

The procurement and accounting departments have it worst of all, because every expense and approval must be handled directly with the boss and the boss’s wife. They are constantly subjected to relentless pressure and reprimands.