The internal colleagues are very kind and help one another.

1. More than half of the salary is deliberately classified as bonuses, resulting in employees receiving very little in future labor pension benefits.

2. The supposed holiday gift money and bonuses are all fake—they are merely unsold goods foisted on employees by the company.

3. You absolutely have to build good relationships with the owner's relatives and old hands such as assistant vice presidents; otherwise, you may not even know why you were forced out.

4. The company cannot afford to hire senior staff. Most employees are inexperienced newcomers fresh out of training at the Institute for Information Industry, and the code quality is extremely poor.

5. The company would rather spend heavily on consultants than listen to the advice and judgment of existing employees.

6. All existing systems are crammed into the same cluster, with no namespace separation; everything is placed in the default namespace. As you can imagine, if one pod fails, everything will malfunction. Yet the CIO and the assistant vice presidents are still proud of how successfully they have transformed the company.

7. If you are forced to resign, it may have nothing to do with your abilities. Perhaps the boss's son wants to buy a house and a car, so the accounting department needs to free up some money.

8. This company always calculates salaries as base salary + position allowance + bonus. The base salary is always only 28,000, which conveniently allows this old company to underreport employees' salaries and profit from labor insurance premiums without paying its fair share.

9. The hierarchy is extremely rigid. You must address people by their exact titles; otherwise, those who consider themselves old-timers at the company will hold a grudge, find an opportunity to retaliate, and you may not even know what happened to you.

10. The company has now become heavily family-run. The original partner-founders were driven out and replaced by relatives of the chairman with the surname Li.