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

You can basically eat whatever you see in the kitchen.

The coworkers are pretty nice and not too annoying.

There’s no limit on overtime.

Pretty much the same as in a certain other review.

They basically teach you once and then more or less leave you to fend for yourself. 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 started, the orders may have just reached a lull, so I was doing relatively simple tasks such as cleaning, visual inspections, and boxing things up.

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

Not long after I started, the engineers would ask other assistants about my progress and 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 other people.

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

But sometimes I felt really helpless. After all, you can’t compare someone who just joined to experienced employees working at their speed (right?).

Also,

work assignments are poorly organized and there is no handover.

I always have to ask what I’m supposed to do in the next round after finishing one 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 employee,

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 “To-Do Items for This Week” section of the work report. That’s simply 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 clocking in meant my 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—after all, your pay starts from the scheduled work time, regardless of how early you clock in.

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?”

????? In my head: Where I eat breakfast is none of your 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 after that, I would clock in at 8:50, just before work started.

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.

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 about setting up a server.

They said they would do it after the boss came back from a business trip, but even after she came back, nothing was done.

Every day, I have to upload the testing data to the server, and each 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 listed.)

I’ve recently started interviewing with new companies.

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