Workplace reviews and discussion: 宇瞻科技股份有限公司

1. The colleagues are all nice, except for the marketing manager mentioned below.

2. The year-end bonus is also decent—you get paid.

3. The company environment is clean, so at least you won't feel disgusted at work.

That's it. It seems none of the advantages are directly related to the actual work.

I also don't want to generalize. Maybe colleagues who have worked in other departments think Adata is really great—truly, “Joining Adata is as steady as Mount Tai”!

All I can do is share my experience with everyone based on what I saw and heard there. Old friends who read this will relate strongly. New friends, if you receive an interview invitation, my advice is basically not advice but a warning: do not go! If you haven't submitted your résumé yet but are considering it, I'm not trying to persuade you either—I'm telling you: don't do something foolish!

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If we look back in reverse chronological order at when I originally applied for this position, the so-called Marcom role, there were far too many responsibilities that were not included in the JD described during the interview. In addition to being responsible for the commercialization process for all products—from the SALES KIT after a project was initiated, to applying for part numbers, packaging, and color boxes, then listing products on the official product website, followed by channel marketing, product marketing, and a whole series of other tasks—well over two-thirds of the work had never been mentioned at all when I applied. The role would also change according to the manager's preferences. I still remember that after I joined, the manager told me: Although you have experience with social media, this responsibility will be handed over to the person newly hired for the role in the future, so you can continue to be responsible for products and other overseas channels.

Little did I know that a few months later, after the new person arrived, social media was suddenly handed back to me. So what connection did that have with the job responsibilities we had originally agreed on?

With this kind of management style—changing decisions from one day to the next—and a manager who had no understanding of marketing, it was inevitable that the marketing department would eventually fall apart. What is most laughable is that the manager actually considered herself an excellent manager, with absolutely no ability to self-reflect.

She went from not understanding the products, to not understanding any marketing platforms, creative work, or techniques, and then to having no idea how to communicate across departments. Externally, she only wanted to be a nice person—truly, nothing more than a “nice person”—because she had no opinions or ideas of her own at work and simply followed the ideas of the people above her. Internally, however, whenever work was assigned by other departments or senior management, or needed to be completed, she would only blame everyone for not doing their jobs properly. She never considered whether these tasks fell within the scope of marketing, or whether staffing and time could reasonably be arranged given the schedule and execution requirements. She would only say: “You need to do it well. Don't let other departments think the marketing department isn't doing anything!” With this vicious cycle, who would want to stay and work here?

We all understand that no job in this world is perfect, and that we will inevitably encounter frustrating situations and undesirable work content. But in Adata's consumer marketing department, not only are you driven crazy by the company's system and the environment in which the marketing department operates, you also have to deal with an incompetent marketing manager. What are you supposed to do?

The manager was not only incompetent at work; her communication with others was so poor that it was impossible to understand. Here are some examples:

1. We often had to communicate across departments, so not being at our desks was perfectly normal. Yet when the manager couldn't find us because of some trivial matter, she said: “Next time you're not at your desk, carry your phone with you at all times—except when you're in the bathroom.” It was utterly ridiculous.

2. Following the previous point: if that's the rule, then why would she often take several hours to respond when team members tried to contact her through a mobile messaging app? If that isn't a double standard, what is?

3. Suppose a meeting was scheduled for 9:30 and several team members arrived at 9:27. She would say: “Look, all the women are here. How could you men be late?” First of all, arriving at 9:27 is not late. And when she says things like that about women, can it not be considered workplace bullying?

4. Regarding product-related reports, the manager had to report to the department director. But because she understood absolutely nothing about the products, she actually told a senior product marketing employee that they would have to attend these meetings from then on, saying: “You understand the products best here, so you go report.” Please—a company's marketing manager who knows absolutely nothing about the products: what is she even doing there?

5. There is no limit to the flattery. At the time, the general manager wanted to change one person, so the signatures in the approval system had to be replaced with new ones. Since I also used the approval system for certain documents, the manager actually asked me to remind the legal colleague that all signatures would have to be changed in the future, and even took me to speak with Legal in person. I really don't understand. Was it necessary to make such a fuss? Was she trying to let everyone in the company know that the marketing manager was so perceptive and proper that she had already anticipated the new general manager would need a signature file? Legal just smiled and said they knew about it, and that Administration would handle the signatures. Please, there was really no need to flatter anyone so excessively!

6. Speaking of flattery, there is another very laughable incident. At first, SKYPE was our company's main communication system. Later, the company notified everyone that it would switch to TEAMS. However, not everyone necessarily had both communication apps on their phones. A few months ago, during a major earthquake, many colleagues used SKYPE to report the situation and their expected arrival time at the company. After learning about this, the manager said in the group call: “The company is using TEAMS now. Reply on TEAMS.” I was speechless. What kind of situation was this, and she was still insisting on using TEAMS? She said it was because using different communication channels would confuse her. I really wanted to ask whether she also used TEAMS to communicate with her family. But this idea was quickly proven. She had to travel to Europe for two weeks on a business trip, during which she would be traveling with the general manager. Naturally, they would need to communicate through a messaging app. How do I know? Because in the early hours of a certain holiday, she sent me a message—you read that correctly, in the early hours of a holiday. She sent a screenshot related to an exhibition. Of course, she hadn't actually meant to send it to me; she had meant to send it to the general manager! This message showed that she had disturbed a company employee for no reason—what a ridiculous thing to do. And wasn't she always emphasizing that TEAMS had to be used? Then why didn't she use it with the general manager? Why not ask the general manager to use it too? Hahaha.

7. When I told her I was resigning, she actually said that I had no “code of the jianghu.” What kind of “code of the jianghu” was she talking about??? I resigned through the normal procedure—what was the problem? Before this, she had followed the wishes of her superiors and pushed out the senior marketing employee, with absolutely no handover—none whatsoever, zero handover. Did that show any respect for me? And guess what she said? She said: “Then why am I the one who has to clean up this mess?” After hearing that, I was genuinely both amused and speechless. A marketing manager who boasted every day about what she had done in the systems field and what she had achieved here and there actually said something like that. If you don't have the capacity for the job, don't take the job in the first place!! It was truly laughable!

There are actually many more areas of work where she was completely unable to help. The constant emotional manipulation and verbal bullying toward colleagues are truly too numerous to list!

Then, after returning from a business trip that was apparently also a vacation, she reported to her superiors that, because of family reasons, she needed to go abroad and could only work until the end of July. Immigration overseas is a reason too, I suppose. Hopefully she won't go on to hurt anyone else. Sigh.