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

There are quite a lot of people, so work can be shared among everyone.

The company is willing to hire young people and newcomers changing careers.

There is no need to clock in. The air conditioning should be fairly cool.

The company is not particularly generous; the starting salary is lower than that of other companies in the same industry.

The actual number of employees is not as high as stated on the job websites. I estimate that many people have left.

The company is basically a typical old-fashioned Taiwanese company, so you can imagine what the various rules are like.

HR also seems to make mistakes quite often. When giving me the offer, they only said that basically everything that should be provided would be provided. In reality, even during the three major festivals, there is not so much as a small gift.

The company imitates foreign companies by holding happy hours, but they are only held once a month. (I thought foreign companies held them at least once a week.)

Moreover, the food and drinks purchased for happy hour are paid for with money deducted from your monthly salary. (It feels like the amount deducted is far greater than the cost of the food.)

What about the snack cabinet? The company only buys ten-dollar packets of snacks—I thought I had gone back to middle school. There are very few, and even when they are restocked in the morning, they are usually all taken before noon.

The managers and bosses really like to watch what employees are doing. During the flexible working hours from 9:00 to 9:30 a.m. (if you arrive at 9:30, you leave at 6:30 p.m.), the boss announced that eating at your desk is not allowed after 9:00. They also frequently walk around to check whether each employee’s screen is related to work.

Recently, employees have been testing positive one after another. The company sent a message saying that isolation is no longer required. Therefore, if you test positive, feel unwell, and want to take five days of sick leave, you have to go to the hospital and obtain a medical certificate on all five days in order to take sick leave. (When you test positive, it is so painful that even getting out of bed is difficult—you really feel like you are about to die.)

Then, employees who test positive and come to work are seated in corner positions, but they can still basically walk around and eat at their desks. (Are they trying to get the entire staff infected once?)

During the interview, they said someone would train you. In reality, on your first day, they just throw a project at you and tell you to figure it out yourself.

They say there is training? Sometimes there is, but it is not necessarily useful for the job. It takes place after working hours, and you cannot claim overtime.

After passing the probation period, there is absolutely no additional allowance of any kind. They also tell you that salary adjustments are made only once a year. HR initially said that they would discuss it with the supervisor after I completed probation, but there was no follow-up at all. HR is often nowhere to be found. In the information they initially provided for opening a company account, they even managed to mistype the English name.

Equal work for unequal pay: you may negotiate a lower salary than the person next to you even though you have the same workload.

They say bonuses depend on performance, but they do not actually explain how they are calculated, nor do they tell you how your performance is rated. (I have not received any bonus yet.)

Some managers have extremely bad personalities. I saw a newcomer being called to the manager’s desk every day and berated for more than an hour. It sounded like nothing more than a communication problem, yet the newcomer was scolded for an entire month—called over every day to be berated—and eventually left after a month.

In short, the salary is like that of a civil servant with no benefits. The various bonuses listed on the job websites are completely unreliable. At least compared with other companies in the same industry, this company has very few benefits. If you want a place to coast until retirement, I suggest finding a company where there are at least a few benefits to take advantage of!