Workplace reviews and discussion: 儒鴻企業股份有限公司

The office building is beautiful.

There is an employee cafeteria with several meal options.

The benefits package is good, and the year-end bonus is fairly generous.

Teams is used as the communication app, so basically you don't need to let work groups invade your LINE (though it also depends on the position and team; our team still has several LINE groups, and we even had to add suppliers on WeChat. They also ask you to install the company's Outlook on your phone so you can check emails at home).

There is standardized training for new hires, but after that, everything depends entirely on your luck with team assignments. I happened to be assigned to a terrible team.

For an assistant position, the salary is not high to begin with. In addition, the actual work differs greatly from what was mentioned during the interview regarding no experience being required. They expect you to be productive immediately, with extremely little room for error. The instruction is not detailed enough, and they easily become impatient. Every day, you are assigned a great deal of work but given very little time to complete it. They also expect you to take work home to prepare and familiarize yourself with it, so that you will not have to spend time absorbing it during work hours. They say things like, “You should organize this at home and review and memorize it before bed.” If they did not say otherwise, I would have thought I had enrolled in a pre-exam cram course.

In addition, if you do not finish the tasks assigned that day, you are required to complete them before leaving. Sometimes they teach you something new only half an hour before the end of the workday and then require you to finish it before leaving. In practice, it is simply impossible to leave on time, so you have to spend extra time resolving it.

After the end of the workday, a notification pops up on the computer saying that anyone who has not applied for overtime should leave. In reality, it is useless, because they tell you to select any reason and continue working—sometimes for as little as 15 minutes and sometimes for as long as two hours. About half the time I was employed there, I did not leave work on time, yet I was never able to submit an overtime request. Several times, I told the approving supervisor that I wanted to apply for overtime, but they just brushed it off, saying, “The company encourages people not to work overtime, so please avoid applying whenever possible,” and, “You failed to complete what you were supposed to do, which is why you were delayed until the end of the workday, so this cannot be applied for.” I tried to communicate and report all of these issues, but afterward they were simply ignored. They would only exchange a few polite words and continue demanding that I complete everything perfectly.

There were also situations such as meetings with supervisors during the probationary period. They very much liked using time after work to ask you to chat for around 30 minutes. After I raised the issue, they said, “I didn’t know you had things to do after work. I thought you might be freer now, so I figured I’d talk to you.” This was extremely disrespectful of subordinates’ personal time.

Although my personal employment experience was extremely poor, and I also had many differences in opinion with my supervisors and colleagues, if you really enjoy working overtime, care relatively little about your quality of life, and have little to do outside of work, I highly recommend giving it a try, because the benefits really are quite good.