Workplace reviews and discussion: 智崴資訊科技股份有限公司

Being sufficiently servile (always on call after work and on holidays, not applying for overtime pay, not clocking in when working on weekends, doing whatever your supervisor tells you to do, working for free without complaint, etc.) will get you a large annual raise every year if you manage to do all of these things.

Once you understand their logic, you can live a life like a civil servant.

You do whatever the company tells you to do. When you report problems encountered at work, your supervisor will either brush you off after listening (sometimes they will lie) or ignore the problem and tell you to continue carrying it out. Problems are not taken seriously; as you lose motivation the more you work, your supervisor may even criticize you for having too much negative energy and call you in for a meeting.

You often work for free. There is no concept of a budget: when you ask how much budget is available for something or what specifications it should meet, your supervisor does not know either. They tell you to first do what you think is appropriate and make it first, then you may be told after finishing, “It’s too expensive; this isn’t what I wanted,” and be asked to redo everything. There is no sense of timing either: promotional plans and execution run from before a campaign opens until after it closes. Every campaign is rushed, and you are constantly trying to rescue the results. Supervisor: “That’s just the nature of our work~”

The company and supervisors lack professionalism. You can tell just by looking at the content on the brand’s social media: there is severe self-centeredness. In cross-industry collaborations, customers from the partner business even have to bring a cut-out coupon to the store to receive a discount, while the company cannot even create a discount code for its website. Performance analysis is extremely crude; on several occasions, a promotional channel’s return rate was only in the single digits, yet they still spent several hundred thousand on advertising.

Supervisors use emotional manipulation. The company does not like employees applying for overtime pay; you can only exchange it for compensatory leave. The supervisor says that applying for overtime pay may leave a bad impression on higher-level supervisors, but you can still apply—it’s up to you. There is much more, but I’m too lazy to type it all. I recommend everyone try it for themselves.