Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣櫻花股份有限公司

1. After nearly three years here, I’d say Sakura is a great place for sharing the pot and working toward team goals, with little competition among colleagues.

2. Salary (poor) + benefits (good) = average overall.

3. If you can make it through the newcomer period and become capable of working independently, the cost-performance ratio of working at Sakura is fairly high.

1. Difficult senior colleagues: This is a traditional, stable industry, and there are many long-serving employees in the company. After staying for a long time, some inevitably become narrow-minded, feeling that newcomers are trying to take their jobs. They would rather let work pile up in their own hands than let newer employees share the burden.

2. Quite a few veterans want to drive newcomers out: Because Sakura has team bonuses and a profit-sharing system, some veterans think:

The company’s business is limited, and the pie is only so big. If another person comes to share it, I’ll get less.

So these veterans make things difficult for newcomers, mock them, and deliberately trip them up—their goal is simply for newcomers to leave on their own.

However, because the company keeps everyone in check with money, the exclusion cannot be too obvious. Everyone becomes very skilled at making covert attacks.

At first, they appear very caring and friendly toward newcomers.

But once they realize that someone might stay for the long term, their attitude changes completely.

This continues until the person can also contribute value and help everyone earn team bonuses; only then does the attitude of their colleagues improve.

Little Sakuras, hang in there.