Workplace reviews and discussion: OP_台灣中科生物技研股份有限公司

1. It’s right outside Exit 9 of Guting Station, but the building is currently replacing all of its elevators, so basically you have to wait forever until all the elevators are replaced… That’s it, nothing else.

1. The turnover rate is extremely high. On average, someone quits or gets disappeared every two months.

2. There are an average of two meetings a week. Meetings are never on time, and every meeting is just reading from a script to the boss. They always talk about the previous meeting, and the problems are never solved. What a waste of time.

3. The company’s hardware and ideas are both extremely old and outdated. It was truly eye-opening to see a company still using Windows 7. It takes five minutes just to boot the computer and open a webpage. There’s no concept of the cloud at all; all files are dumped into a shared computer drive, and it’s impossible to edit the same file simultaneously. If you want to get anything done, you have to wait around for one another and keep asking, “Is anyone using such-and-such file?” The efficiency is really hilarious. The time clock is also two minutes slow…

4. Managers constantly say, “This company doesn’t have many restrictions,” but in reality there are tons of rules that tie your hands. The phrase coworkers say most often is, “Our company has no money.” The budget really is insufficient, and the boss really is stingy.

5. The so-called “employee training” consists of spending less than a few hours in a meeting room while someone reads the company product-introduction PowerPoint to you word for word (some of the information isn’t even up to date). As for whatever information you need afterward, you’re expected to summon it psychically yourself. The shared drive is as deep as the ocean—go fish it out yourself~

6. They keep shouting slogans about innovation, but in reality it’s completely stuck in the past. They constantly dream of expanding and hiring more people, yet they haven’t thought through the SOPs or reasonable KPIs for the new positions at all. They fantasize about hiring professionals, but once they come in, the work they’re given is all odd jobs. Then they tell employees, “You’re different from what we imagined.” LOL. The company never grows, and the boss is forever dreaming of taking the company public.

7. What they call a pay raise is adding money to your perfect-attendance bonus or some other position allowance, and of course those amounts are deducted from your year-end bonus. Even if you’ve worked there for 10 years and received N salary adjustments, your year-end bonus still doesn’t change~

8. Whenever there is a problem with a company product, you may be sent to the logistics warehouse to “provide support,” meaning you have to periodically help out as a warehouse worker in a dusty, dirty environment filled with blowing sand.

9. The two male marketing managers are both masters of shirking responsibility. They have no idea how to manage people and simply abandon their subordinates, then dump problems on them. They also have a typical manager’s affliction: they say A one time and immediately change it to B the next.

For example, when working on a project, they initially say, “You need to give the boss several options to choose from—you can’t just throw one option at him and expect him to accept it.” A few days later, they say, “The boss doesn’t have time to choose. You need to think it through and choose one for him first.”

I’m seriously ?????

10. They hold awkward, pointless book clubs at irregular intervals. Turning in a reflection for the session would have been enough, but they actually have to hold another “post-book-club reflection-sharing meeting”…

11. The boss is arrogant. Once, during a presentation, I simply forgot to bring a pen, and the boss threw one down in front of the employee. I have to ask: is forgetting to bring a pen really worth reacting like that? Such low EQ.

12. They’re very good at bullying newcomers. All the crappy tasks get dumped on new hires. On the surface, they ask for your consent, but realistically, who dares say no?

13. HR clearly has little understanding of market salaries and considers a salary under NT$40,000 from the company to be “pretty good compensation.”

14. There’s so much more… If you’re a brave soul, come on in! Looking at the first two positive reviews, the company probably sends people up here to clean up its image from time to time~ I went back and read reviews from several years ago, and sure enough, this company hasn’t changed at all, haha. Pretty miserable…