Workplace reviews and discussion: 奕瑞科技有限公司

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Former Taipei employee here. Recently heard they’re going to start cracking down on people switching shifts again.

Here’s the condensed version.

Bottom line: come only if you can accept low pay (you get labor and health insurance).

An old-school manufacturing-industry structure, with the wages of a snack shop.

Basically, this place is positioned as a training ground.

(The “training ground” applies only to the AI image recognition engineer position. You won’t gain any useful experience in the other two positions; you might as well work as an operator.)

They like hiring recent graduates; the situation is the same in the south and the north (people without work experience are easier to take advantage of).

There are plenty of ghost stories about a certain executive. There are too many to finish writing here.

I’ll refer to this place as A.

They almost exclusively invite men to interviews.

Women shouldn’t bother submitting résumés—you won’t even get an interview opportunity.

The analysis below is based on information from the “Slave Bank.”

Basic benefits: labor insurance, health insurance, and contributions to the new pension system.

(Translation for dummies: benefits are labor and health insurance, and that’s it. They don’t even have group insurance.)

Leave: two days off per week, flexible start and end times, menstrual leave for female employees, and paternity leave for male employees.

(The basics. These don’t count as benefits at all.)

Allowances: wedding, bereavement, and celebratory allowances.

(I’ve heard that applicants have been ignored when applying. Basically, you can count this as nonexistent too. There’s also no clearly specified amount, so management can manipulate things here.)

They like exploiting information asymmetry and then paying you less.

Bonuses: year-end bonus and rewards for good work performance.

(Anything listed at the end of the bonus section should be treated as nonexistent.

The year-end bonus is renamed the “Spring Festival bonus” and won’t be paid until after Lunar New Year. A deducts it from people they dislike.

A keeps mentioning project bonuses, but no one has ever received one. It’s just a pie-in-the-sky buzzword. Very tasty, very tasty.

Three-festival bonuses: no such thing.

Pay-raise system: no, no, and no. If you bring it up, you’ll be shot down and told that they’ll give you a project bonus instead.

Rewards for good work performance: never heard of them. Hilarious.)

Training/activities: training (internal and external), continuing education, year-end banquet, and occasional dinners.

(Never heard of the first items at all. There hasn’t been a year-end banquet for several years, and there have been zero dinners.)

Conclusion: you get labor and health insurance, and they’re also somewhat noncompliant … (they were reported for violating the law at the beginning of the year).

When recruiting now, they’ll ask whether you can accept business trips. Something related to “Ji-Dian” (a certain mountain) is involved; it’s a little … inconvenient to say more.

You can’t use smartphones there, and the work computers don’t have internet access. Basically, it’s like being in prison.

My advice is to clearly refuse. Don’t go. (Even if you say during the interview that you accept business trips.)

*They’ll deduct money from your business-trip bonus under various minor pretexts … It’s terrible.*

Analysis of positions at the “Slave Bank”

Image Recognition Engineer (Taipei headquarters)

Same as above. They like hiring fresh graduates (cheap, easy to take advantage of, and more likely to put up with mistreatment).

If you don’t proactively ask for a raise, they won’t give you one. You can work for years and it will stay the same, unless you’re a favorite.

Fresh graduates should treat it as a training-ground stepping stone and leave after about a year. Don’t stay too long; there’s no future.

AI Annotator (Tainan)

They don’t review résumés when recruiting and randomly bring in strange people for interviews.

They recruit in the south because they only offer the basic minimum wage and won’t give raises (unless the government raises it).

This is the only area where they follow the Labor Standards Act. They absolutely won’t give you anything extra.

Now they’re only looking for people who accept business trips to a certain mountain. A won’t tell you this directly during the interview.

They’ll only ask whether you accept business trips. After you join, if you refuse, enforcers will come looking for you.

Business trips to that mountain are awful, and the pay is also very low. There are trips to Nanke and Zhongke; the pay is low for both, but A thinks they’re already paying monkeys a fortune.

The various benefits aren’t equivalent to those in Taipei. Second-class employees (judging from the various salaries and benefits, that’s exactly what you are).

Other requirements

Must be willing to work at a site outside your home county or city, have a strong sense of responsibility, and be able to handle pressure. (If you see this line and still don’t run, what are you waiting for?)

Project Manager

A terrible position. Not much more to say.

Literally cleaning up other people’s messes.

Summary: It’s fine if you just want to cling to your desk and coast into retirement. People without ambitions can come (but be careful not to get blacklisted).

A regularly targets people they dislike and pressures them to leave.

Image recognition engineers can come to train for a year (as long as they don’t have to travel).

In short, business trips are awful, and A will keep disparaging the people who go on them.

It calls itself a tech company, but has the systems of an old-school manufacturing company and the wages of a roadside stall.

They like taking projects at rock-bottom prices and then saying the company didn’t make money and everyone has to weather the hard times together.

There are plenty of ghost stories. If you don’t think the above is enough, you can join and hear more yourself.