Workplace reviews and discussion: 域動行銷股份有限公司

There really are none

1. It calls itself a data marketing company, yet the boss is stingy about spending on IT infrastructure. Before joining, you sign a pile of confidentiality agreements, but in practice, because the boss refuses to approve funding, employees all use free, publicly available document and progress-tracking software, to the point that all the information can be found in Google searches in plain sight.

2. Once you actually join, treat working here as your personal cultivation and a way to accumulate merit for your supervisors. After all, a subordinate has to inexplicably endure emotional manipulation from superiors, as well as endless work assignments and performance targets.

3. This company always tries to find a senior employee at a junior salary. If you suddenly encounter a high salary offer, do not hesitate—reject it outright. If you cannot successfully complete PLP within one month, you will definitely be fired, because the CEO will think the money was not worth paying.

4. Do not assume this company is young and energetic; that is just an act. At year-end, everyone has to cosplay, and monthly meetings include sports events. You cannot see the infighting among the older generation, but once you encounter it, you are done for.

5. As a coder, you are less likely to get promoted or retained than someone who is good at painting grand visions for the boss.

6. Veteran employees are arrogant and indifferent toward newcomers. Ask them a question, and they will throw back, “Didn’t I just give you a document to read?” Yet the document is extremely rough, looking like it was hastily compiled for some specific purpose, and newcomers cannot understand it.

1. The CEO pretends that the entire company places great importance on employees, but can be stingy even with taxi fares and vendor collaboration fees. Do not assume the company will be any more friendly toward employees.

2. You are either on the road to being disciplined through grand promises, or on the road to being squeezed for savings.

3. Salaries are between 30,000 and 60,000; those earning around 60,000 are precisely the people the boss singles out for elimination.

4. You can leave work on time, but for on-call duties or sudden overtime, there is no overtime pay at all—it is simply done at home, where the Labor Bureau cannot find out.

5. Five waves of engineers have already left the company. Handover information is incomplete, and the code is riddled with old, unresolved bugs. If you actually try to fix them, the program itself is not decoupled, so changing one thing will cause everything to blow up.

6. This is the most calculating exploitative boss I have ever seen. Employee travel expenses, progress tracking, and salaries all have to be painstakingly calculated with you. There is no trust between management and employees, yet they constantly emphasize team cohesion.

7. If you are an employee who was forced to resign, be sure to block the company’s phone number as soon as you see it. Be careful—they may record calls to use against you.