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

You can basically eat anything you see in the kitchen.

The colleagues are pretty nice and not overly annoying.

There is no limit on overtime.

Pretty much the same as a certain other review.

They basically teach you once and then more or less leave you to figure things out on your own. 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 had just started, the orders may have happened to be at a lull, so I was doing relatively simple tasks such as 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 nearby about my progress, why my testing was taking so long, or question whether my procedures were correct.

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

And usually, only after the engineers asked would the others come and ask me about my progress or what problems I was having.

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

Also,

there was very little organization in assigning work, and there was no handover.

After finishing one round of work, I had to ask what I was supposed to do in the next round.

After finishing that round, I had to ask again. It was really annoying.

Sometimes they couldn’t even give me a schedule.

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

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

The thing is, I didn’t know what they would ask me to do next, but the boss’s wife required me to fill out the schedule in the “This Week’s To-Do Items” section of the work report. That was simply unreasonable (so I never entered anything).

There was also a small incident. When I first started, I had no idea that your work hours—and therefore your pay—started counting as soon as you clocked in. (My hours were 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; after all, you start getting paid at the scheduled start time.

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

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

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

I only found out later that pay starts counting as soon as you clock in. (The interview never mentioned this at all.)

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 spent every day testing.

It was nothing like an engineering assistant role; it was 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 getting a server set up has been incredibly slow and drawn out.

They said they had to wait for the boss to return from a business trip before setting it up, but even after he came back, nothing was done.

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

I complain at work that I’m testing every day. It’s so 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.

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

(It’s even lower than what 104 shows.)

I’ve recently started interviewing with other companies.

As soon as I find one, I’ll resign immediately.