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 annoying.

There’s no limit on overtime.

Pretty much the same as another review.

They basically teach you once and then leave you to figure things out on your own. They won’t proactively come ask about your progress.

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

(The testing area is sometimes not in the office; it might be next to the lobby.)

When I first joined, the orders may have just reached a lull, so I did relatively simple tasks like cleaning, visual inspections, and packing 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 about my progress, 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 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 felt really helpless. After all, I had just started, so they shouldn’t compare me with experienced staff working at their speed (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.

Once that round is done, 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 is reserved for 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 my schedule in the “To-Do Items for This Week” section of the work report. That’s completely unreasonable (so I never entered anything).

There was another small incident. When I first started, I had no idea that your paid hours start as soon as you clock in. (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; the scheduled start time was simply when they started counting your pay.

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

Who knew the boss’s wife would ask me, “Why don’t you eat breakfast at home?”

????? In my head I was thinking: Where I eat breakfast is none of your damn business.

Only later did I find out that your paid time starts when you clock in. (This was never mentioned during 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 an engineering assistant role; it’s more like being a technician.

Actually, the company wasn’t looking for an engineering assistant—they were looking for a technician, right?

It’s been almost three months, and they still drag their feet 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, the test data has to be uploaded to the server, and I have to ask a coworker to upload it every time. It’s really troublesome ^_^

I complain at work that I’m testing every day and it’s so annoying.

The other assistants tell me that they went through the same thing.

But what the hell 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 low.

(Even lower than what 104 lists.)

I’ve recently started interviewing with new companies.

Once I find one, I’ll quit immediately.