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

Basically, you can eat anything you see in the kitchen.

The coworkers are pretty nice and not overly annoying.

There’s no limit on overtime.

More or less the same as another post.

Basically, they teach you once and then mostly leave you 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.

(Sometimes the testing location isn’t 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 like cleaning, visual inspection, and packing things into boxes.

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, why 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 other people.

And 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 worker (right?).

Also,

work assignments are poorly organized 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, 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 a schedule in the “Tasks for This Week” section of the work report. That’s simply unreasonable (so I never entered anything).

There was also a minor incident. When I first started, I had no idea that clocking in meant my paid hours started immediately (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.

But during my first week, I didn’t know this, so 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.

Later I found out that clocking in meant I started getting paid immediately (this was never mentioned in the interview).

So afterward, I clocked 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 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 would do it after the boss returned from a business trip, but even after he came back, nothing was done.

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

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

Recently, I’ve started interviewing with other companies.

As soon as I find one, I’ll resign.