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 nice and not really assholes.

There’s no limit on overtime.

More or less the same as another review.

They basically teach you once and then leave you on your own halfway. They won’t proactively ask about your progress.

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

(The testing location is sometimes not in the office; it may be next to the lobby.)

When I first joined, the orders may have just reached a stopping point, so I was doing relatively simple tasks such as cleaning, visual inspections, and boxing things.

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

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

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

Also, usually after the engineers asked, the other people would then come ask me about my progress or what problems I was having.

But sometimes I felt really helpless. After all, you can’t compare someone who just started with the speed of an experienced worker (right?).

Then there’s the work assignment situation.

There’s no real order to the assignments, and there’s no handover.

After finishing one round, I have to ask what I’m supposed to do in the next round.

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

Sometimes they can’t even give me a schedule.

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

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

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

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

I thought it was fine to clock in early at many companies—your pay would just start from the scheduled start time anyway.

So during my first week, I didn’t know and started eating breakfast after clocking in.

Then the boss’s wife asked me, “Why don’t you eat breakfast at home?”

????? I thought to myself: Where I eat breakfast is none of your damn business.

I only found out later that pay starts being calculated as soon as you clock in (this was never mentioned in 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.

Actually, the company isn’t looking for an engineering assistant—it’s looking for a technician, right?

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

They said they had to wait for the boss to return from a business trip before doing it, but even after he returned, nothing happened.

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

I complained at work that I was testing every day and it was really annoying.

The other assistants replied that they had gone 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 relatively low.

(Lower than what 104 lists.)

I’ve recently started interviewing with other companies.

Once I find one, I’ll resign immediately.