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 aren’t 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 leave you to figure things out on your own. They don’t proactively ask about your progress.

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

(The testing location sometimes isn’t in the office; it may be next to the lobby.)

When I first started, 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 additional 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 my 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 if they had just asked me directly instead of going through someone else.

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

But sometimes it was really helpless. After all, it’s not fair to compare someone who just joined with the speed of an experienced employee (right?).

Also,

work assignments were very poorly organized, and there was no handover.

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

After finishing that round, I had to ask again. It was really annoying.

Sometimes they couldn’t give me a schedule at all.

Maybe the more difficult model in the next round was supposed to be handled by an experienced employee,

so I could only do the basic, simpler 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 a schedule in the “To-do items for this week” section of the work report. That was completely unreasonable, so I never entered anything.

There was also a minor incident. When I first started, I had no idea that my paid hours began 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; the scheduled starting time was when they began counting your pay anyway.

So during my first week, I didn’t know that, and after clocking in I started eating breakfast.

Then the boss’s wife asked me, “Why don’t you eat breakfast at home?”

????? I thought to myself: Where I eat breakfast is none of your damn business.

Only later did I find out that pay started as soon as I clocked in (this was never mentioned during the interview).

So afterward, 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 spent every day testing.

It was nothing like an engineering assistant role; it was 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 haven’t properly set up a server.

They said they would do it after the boss returned from a business trip, but even after he came back, nothing happened.

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

I complained at work that testing was all I did 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 rather low.

(Lower than what 104 shows.)

Recently, I’ve started interviewing with other companies.

As soon as I find one, I’ll resign.