Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣住友培科股份有限公司

There aren't really any advantages. If I had to name one, the coworkers and supervisors are fairly nice and friendly.

Basically, most of the employees are older, and there aren't any young people. This means that if the older employees in those positions retire, the people below them will have an extremely difficult time—no one will know how to do the work.

To put it bluntly, the working environment is terrible—absolutely awful. The company makes packaging materials, generating dust and so on. Maybe because it's an old factory, the equipment is quite poor, and there's an especially large amount of dust. It can also cause allergies and other problems. Because there's so much dust, it can get into your eyes, nose, and onto your skin, making you very uncomfortable. So I guess this job depends on the individual. The starting salary is only NT$30,000. Although they emphasize that safety is important and say not to do the work if you can't, you still have to learn to do it eventually. Even after you learn, the salary is still just that much. I don't think NT$30,000 is worth it for an environment like that alone. The protective clothing is practically the same as having no protection at all; I estimate it's the lowest grade available. In a space filled with dust throughout the entire facility, they don't even have full-face helmets. If you work there for a long time, your lungs will probably become fibrotic from inhaling all those dust particles every day. For this salary, it's not worth sacrificing your health and risking your life. You'd be better off working at a gas station, seriously. Frankly, even if they offered NT$40,000–50,000, I still wouldn't recommend working there—unless you value money over your life and health, in which case it doesn't matter.