I’ve been employed for half a year, and I leave work on time every day. There is almost nothing to do during working hours.

There is a fixed annual raise of 3–5%, a year-end bonus of one month’s salary, and a performance bonus of 0–2 months’ salary. Project bonuses are paid in May each year depending on the circumstances.

(The company is unwilling to include salary and benefits information in the contract or employee handbook, so it can only be confirmed through internal sources.)

A birthday bonus of NT$1,000; gift vouchers for PChome worth NT$500–1,000 are given for each of the three traditional holidays.

In addition to the benefits provided by the company itself, each department also has corresponding benefits. You need to confirm these with your department yourself. There are fairly frequent opportunities for dinners and employee trips.

If you work through December 31, you can resign afterward and are guaranteed to receive the year-end bonus. Resignation dates are always set on Fridays.<br>

The company is located above Banqiao Station. Occasionally, you really do see cockroaches in the pantry or on desks, but most of the time it is reasonably clean… I guess.

During working hours, almost no one will manage you, but when you encounter problems, no one will help you either. Just treat it as though you are taking on freelance projects—projects for Metaage Corporation.

During the interview, they said they needed a front-end engineer who would use Vue, Git, and Docker, and that agile development experience was required.

On my very first day at the company, I was assigned a Java full-stack project. No one understood the project because the engineer previously responsible for it had resigned, leaving only handover documents for me to study on my own.

The company does not actually use version control at all. Project handovers are done using ZIP files, which makes collaboration impossible; everyone has to take responsibility for the entire project.

For people who already have work experience, know how to protect themselves in the workplace, and can solve problems, this place can be described as unbelievably easygoing. Coming to the office every day and slacking off is very enjoyable.

For newcomers, career changers, or people who are easily subjected to emotional manipulation, this place is basically hell. The company has no programming standards whatsoever, and the schedules are a complete mess.

For engineers with even a little common sense, this place is a nightmare, and you will desperately want to get away as soon as possible.

Here, the supervisor will ask whether the programming language used in the project is Java or jQuery.

Unit tests are classified as unnecessary and a waste of time. If they discover that unit tests have been written in a project, they will delete them outright.

Git is considered troublesome. When communicating code, everyone sends ZIP files back and forth, and you cannot touch anything until the other person has finished making their changes.

All code is produced by copying and pasting and brute-forcing things. As long as it runs, that is all that matters.

The workload distribution is extremely uneven. Within the same team, some people work overtime every day with fires burning around them, while others spend every day browsing Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, defecating, smoking, and taking walks. I have three years of work experience and am very happy slacking off at the company. Another colleague, a fresh graduate without a relevant academic background, is extremely miserable: they are busy to death every day, have to work overtime, and are also scolded for not knowing how to do their work.

Performance evaluations and promotion opportunities depend entirely on seniority and personal relationships; everything else is disregarded.