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 aren't overly annoying.

There’s no limit on overtime.

Pretty much the same as a certain other post.

They basically teach you once and then mostly 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 and ask.

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

When I first started, the orders may have happened to be at a lull, so I was doing relatively simple tasks such as cleaning, visual inspections, and boxing.

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

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

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

Also, usually only after the engineers asked would the others come 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 just started with the speed of an experienced employee (right?).

And then there’s the work scheduling.

It’s very disorganized, and there’s no handover.

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

After finishing that round, I have to ask again. It’s really annoying.

Sometimes they can’t even give me a schedule.

Maybe the more difficult models in the next round have to be handled by experienced employees,

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

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

There was also a minor incident. When I first started, I had no idea that your paid hours start as soon as you clock 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—if the scheduled start time was, say, 9:00, that was when they started counting your pay.

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

Only later did I find out that the clock-in time is when they start counting your pay. (This was never mentioned in the interview.)

So after that, 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 an engineering assistant position; it’s more like being a technician.

Honestly, what the company needs isn’t an engineering assistant—it’s a technician, right?

I’ve been here for almost three months, and they still can’t even get a server set up without dragging their feet.

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, they still didn’t do it.

Every day I need 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 and it’s so annoying.

The other assistants tell me that they went through the same thing.

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

On top of that, I’m busier than a dog every day, and the pay is low.

(Lower than what 104 lists.)

Recently I’ve started interviewing with other companies.

I’ll resign immediately once I find one.