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 too 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 won’t proactively come over to ask about your progress.

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

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

When I had just 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 up.

After more orders were added, I was basically testing every day.

Not long after I started, the engineers would ask the other assistants nearby about my progress and why the testing was taking 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.

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

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

Also,

work assignments are poorly organized and there’s no handover.

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

After finishing another round, I have to ask again. 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 employee,

so I can only do the basic, simple ones 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 my schedule in the “Tasks for This Week” section of the work report. That’s asking the impossible (so I didn’t enter anything at all).

There was also a minor incident. When I first started, I had no idea that my working hours—and therefore my pay—started as soon as I clocked in. (My hours were 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, since you’re paid from the scheduled start time anyway.

So during my first week, not knowing this, I clocked in and then started eating breakfast.

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 pay starts as soon as you clock in. (This was never mentioned during the interview.)

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

I actually regret joining this company quite a bit.

I applied for an engineering assistant position, but basically spent every day testing.

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

Actually, the company wasn’t looking for an engineering assistant—it was 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 until the boss returned 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 every time I have to ask a colleague to help upload it. It’s really troublesome ^_^

I complained at work that I’m testing every day and 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 lists.)

I’ve recently started interviewing with other companies.

Once I find one, I’ll resign immediately.