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

You can basically eat whatever you see in the kitchen.

The colleagues are pretty nice and not overly annoying.

There’s no limit on overtime.

More or less the same as a certain other review.

They basically 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 to 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 pause, so I did 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 about my progress, why my testing took so long, or whether my procedures were correct.

But sometimes I was actually right beside them. It would be faster to just ask me directly instead of going through someone else.

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

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

Also,

The work isn’t organized at all, and there’s no handover.

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

Then 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 employee,

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

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

There was also a minor incident. When I first started, I had no idea that your work hours—and therefore your pay—started as soon as you clocked in. (My hours were 9:00–18:00.) Before that, I would clock in before 8:30.

I thought that, at many companies, clocking in early was fine; after all, you were paid starting from the scheduled work time.

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

Who would have known 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 started as soon as you clocked in. (The interview never mentioned this at all.)

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

I actually regret joining this company quite a lot.

I applied for an engineering assistant position, but I basically tested things every day.

It was nothing like an engineering assistant position; it was more like 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 came back from a business trip, but even after she returned, nothing was done.

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

I complained at work that I had to test things every day, and it was really annoying.

The other assistants told me 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.)

I’ve recently started interviewing with other companies.

Once I find one, I’ll resign immediately.