Workplace reviews and discussion: 方客特有限公司
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The colleagues are pretty nice, but unfortunately most of them have left.
A typical exploitative boss. Once you report overtime, you’ll constantly be questioned: “Why do you need to work overtime? You’ll leave on time today, right? What are you busy with? You shouldn’t need to work overtime, right?” This kind of outrageous harassment happens repeatedly. The reasons for working overtime are often caused by the boss insisting on adding an unrelated task that isn’t part of the job, only to use the line “The job description says ‘other duties assigned by the supervisor’” to pressure employees. He is also the kind of person who says at first that he’ll handle something himself, then dumps everything on employees when the deadline arrives. If employees report overtime, he relentlessly nitpicks them.
He pretends to care deeply about employees, but privately goes around telling individual employees bad things about one another, creating a strong atmosphere of internal suspicion. Whenever anyone tries to verify what was said with the boss, he pretends nothing happened and acts as though he was never the one who said it. I don’t know whether his goal is to run a company or compete for an Oscar.
He claims that the company will become the TSMC of the software industry, but in reality he just wants to hire lots of disposable employees to make money for him. He gives no consideration to employee advancement or training, because the boss thinks that giving you a job is already an enormous favor—let alone investing in something costly like training.
His attitude toward talent is to ignore their future potential and focus only on whether they are cheap. Even if you graduated from a top computer science graduate program, he would still complain that offering an engineer NT$50,000 a month is too expensive. Just something for everyone to consider.
Not to mention, I’ve also heard that there was a #MeToo incident.
The boss’s current girlfriend was also recruited from within the company. After they started dating, he was very insistent that the woman leave, possibly simply to make it easier for him to do things in the office that would be difficult to explain.