Many learning opportunities and systematic educational resources

High staff turnover means you often get to see new hires

A computer monitor is provided (but you have to bring your own computer)

1. High staff turnover, with extremely large cultural differences among the various business units. For example, in some units, new employees are put on their own before they have even finished training, forcing everyone else to play Minesweeper directly.

2. Department operations lack planning. Senior or capable employees are often overworked, while those with limited abilities may still work normal hours.

3. Although it is a startup (as it calls itself), the current management’s approach to management and planning is closer to that of a traditional company or public-sector organization. There is little long-term planning, and after meetings there are often simply a pile of new tasks to handle.

4. There are no clear promotion rules. In theory, there is a salary adjustment meeting every six months, but usually the other party only throws out a new plan when you sit down with them, tells you that they can only evaluate whether you are worth a raise after the project is completed, and then fills your head with rosy visions of the future and career possibilities to get you to figure things out yourself. (These matters could normally be raised six months or even a year in advance, rather than being brought up on the spot. As a result, the salary adjustment meeting becomes a task-assignment meeting, making it hardly worth holding.)

6. Conclusion: It’s hard to put into words. You might as well save the laptop subsidy and use it to see a doctor instead (NT$300).