Workplace reviews and discussion: 衡碁科技有限公司

You can basically eat anything you see in the kitchen.

The coworkers are pretty good and aren’t overly annoying.

There’s no limit on overtime.

More or less the same as a certain other review.

Basically, they teach you once and then mostly leave you on your own. They don’t proactively come ask about your progress.

If you don’t know something, you have to go into the office to ask.

(The testing area sometimes isn’t in the office; it may be next to the lobby.)

When I had just started, the orders may have happened to be at a lull, so I did relatively simple tasks like cleaning, visual inspections, and putting things into boxes.

After additional orders came in, I was basically testing every day.

Not long after I started, the engineers would ask the other assistants about my progress, why my testing took so long, or question whether my procedures were correct.

But sometimes I was right there beside them. It would have been faster to ask me directly instead of going through someone else.

And usually, only after the engineers asked would the others come ask me about my progress or whether I had any problems.

But sometimes it was really helpless. After all, you can’t compare someone who has just joined to the speed of an experienced worker (right?).

Also,

The work isn’t organized or prioritized, and there’s no handover.

After I finish one round, I have to ask what I should do in the next round.

Then I have to ask again after finishing that round. It’s really annoying.

Sometimes they can’t give me a schedule at all.

Maybe the more difficult model in the next round has to be handled by an experienced worker,

so I can only do the basic, simple tasks first.

Basically, I don’t know what they’ll ask me to do next, but the boss’s wife requires me to lay out a schedule in the “Tasks for This Week” section of the work report. That’s simply impossible to do (so I never entered anything).

There was also a small incident. When I first started, I had no idea that clocking in meant my pay started being calculated immediately (my hours are 9:00–18:00). Before that, I would clock in before 8:30.

I thought it was fine to clock in early at many companies; after all, you start getting paid at the scheduled start time.

But during my first week, I didn’t know that, so after clocking in I started eating breakfast.

Who knew the boss’s wife would ask me, “Why don’t you eat breakfast at home?”

????? In my head: Where I eat breakfast is none of your business.

I only found out later that clocking in meant my pay started being calculated immediately (this was never mentioned during the interview).

So afterward, I clocked in at 8:50, just before work started.

I actually really regret joining this company.

I applied for an engineering assistant position, but basically all I do every day is testing.

It’s nothing like being an engineering assistant; it’s more like being a technician.

What the company really needed wasn’t an engineering assistant, but a technician, right?

I’ve been here for almost three months, and they still drag their feet setting up a server.

They said they would do it after the boss returned from a business trip, but even after she returned, nothing happened.

Every day, I have to upload the test data to the server, and I have to ask a coworker to do it for me every time. It’s really troublesome ^_^

I complain at work that I’m testing every day—it’s so annoying.

The other assistants reply that they went through the same thing.

But what does that have to do with me? I didn’t apply to be a technician.

And I’m busier than a dog every day, while the pay is on the low side.

(Lower than what 104 lists.)

I’ve recently started interviewing with new companies.

As soon as I find one, I’ll resign.