Workplace reviews and discussion: 域動行銷股份有限公司

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Worried the post will get pushed down again because it isn’t paginated, so I’m backing it up for everyone.

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To be honest, when I first joined, I thought the atmosphere at this company was very good. Some managers and subordinates joked and laughed together, everyone got along like friends, and work progressed smoothly without any infighting.

But I heard that at this company,

cloud engineers are used as accountants,

general engineers as senior engineers,

and senior engineers as the entire IT department.

I feel sorry for them, but they were also very responsible in guiding our PMs in their work. Whenever the PMs had questions about systems or business models, they would ask them. Everyone had become accustomed to and liked this company.

Then, around the end of last year, a manager was parachuted in. I’m not sure whether everyone simply had different ways of working, or whether this was how the company had always operated behind the scenes, but problems began to emerge, including many benefits that had previously been removed.

There were rumors of illegal wage deductions.

Some strange infighting began to appear.

There was also a “rumor” that a colleague wanted to resign but was retained by the parachuted-in manager, who told them that it was fine even if they did no work, as long as they stayed at the company and “belonged to him.”

Clear factions began to emerge within the company.

One was the reformist faction aligned with the engineers, seriously discussing every day how to fix and optimize the system.

The other was the new manager’s faction, which disliked the engineers having too much power and spent every day figuring out how to make things difficult for them, deliberately separating them in meetings as well.

We began having to write piles of documents and reports every day. I’m not saying that writing these things is bad, but many meaningless tasks were added, along with some strange processes, all simply to create divisions. It was truly petty. In fact, that new manager’s reputation has also been the subject of rumors in some parts of the industry—go ask around.

After the engineers in the reformist faction were driven away by the new manager’s tactics, things became even more difficult.

All development was delayed. The engineers were impossible to mobilize, had terrible attitudes, and knew nothing, yet insisted they had only just joined. It would be bad enough for an ordinary engineer to say these things, but even the new manager said them. I don’t know where their most basic technical competence is; they all insist that others teach them everything from scratch. I don’t believe someone applying to be an accounting manager would ask the company to teach them arithmetic from the beginning.

Whatever.

The new manager’s faction has now won. In reality, this is a major loss for the company. The entire company feels increasingly authoritarian and corrupt, and everything has become constrained and difficult. I hope the factional infighting ends and that the company can truly recover and develop in a better direction.

Otherwise, I’ll have to look for a new job again.

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The head of the Product Division is two-faced, has little ability, and often engages in petty maneuvers.

Almost all of the AMs, MDs, and RDs in the company have left. Correction! They were driven away by a pile of petty maneuvers. Those who remain are in misery every day.

Yet the boss has taken no action and has even joined in bullying certain employees. The boss only values a bunch of people who talk big but cannot get things done.

Everyone at the bottom can see who is good for the company, who works hard, who is causing damage, who is spreading slander and gossip, and who is distorting the facts. But the treatment those people receive leaves everyone feeling disheartened and afraid. Those who remain are either looking for jobs or looking for excuses to resign; only those who have families to support cannot easily quit.

Everyone has seen how the company treats serious and responsible employees. We are all terrified of becoming the next one.

I don’t know whether the boss is genuinely very slow to notice things, or whether, as the people mentioned earlier said, they simply dare not admit their mistakes. Every time, the boss plays along with the senior managers they personally poached, making the whole company worse and worse. You cannot wake someone who is pretending to sleep. The boss will not admit their mistakes: if they did, they would lose face and offend the managers they spent a great deal of money recruiting. They have no ability whatsoever to distinguish right from wrong. Pathetic. Since the only person in a company who cannot leave is the boss, those of us at the bottom should quickly find an excuse and run. Stay away from some terrible people.

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The senior manager is very good at distorting and smearing others, and also gives arbitrary instructions. They neither understand nor comprehend the entire business model, and when something is done incorrectly or runs late, they dump the responsibility on our PMs.

The distortion and smearing occur not only when assigning work or when deliverables go wrong, but also in power struggles, constantly smearing and misrepresenting anyone who does not comply with them. They practically seem intent on driving everyone out of the company. After only a few months here, I deeply regretted joining, thinking that a company backed by China Investment would be more stable. The management is terrible, the senior manager is terrible, the boss does nothing, and there are almost no benefits.

Only when everyone was about to leave did they think of spreading word that bonuses would be given to those who stayed, in an attempt to retain people. Using the hard-earned money of those who were “made to leave” to support people who cause trouble at the company and accomplish nothing—brilliant. A company that shirks responsibilities, does nothing, and is full of power struggles.

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When I first joined this company, I thought the atmosphere was strongly reform-oriented, and that some people were extremely serious about getting things done. Only after staying for a while did I realize it was all a lie.

It is just the old boss’s usual method for dealing with anyone who voices dissent about the company.

In reality, the senior management’s instructions are chaotic, management is lax, and they only have a superficial understanding of the business model. Whenever something goes wrong, they shift the blame to the PM. The managers in technical roles also have only a superficial understanding of technology.

The workplace is full of smearing and power struggles. It did not take long after joining to discover that everyone who had worked hard for the company had been driven away, leaving behind a perfect world of power struggles. Now the system and code are a complete mess every day, no one knows how to maintain them, and even the data is falsified. I feel sorry for those who paid money to purchase the data.

In addition, the boss turns a blind eye to problems, preferring to protect their own people rather than admit mistakes. The more skilled you are at flattering and packaging yourself, the more you can be promoted and given raises without limit.

Everyone who worked seriously was driven away through petty maneuvers, leaving those who remain to suffer every day while waiting for an opportunity to escape.

So, if you have read the posts here, don’t doubt them—they are all true. Run while you can!

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If you are thinking of applying for a graphic visual designer or visual designer position in the Marketing Division, please give up on the idea...

The manager is extremely self-important and difficult to communicate with. Joining would only be a waste of time. As for experience, you won’t learn much either. Think carefully!

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The boss determines the company culture; managers determine whether the company lives or dies.

The culture at this company is extremely bad. It even supports power struggles and slacking off—apparently all you need is talk.

The company continues to lose talent, replacing them with worse talent retained through higher salaries, gradually moving toward extinction.

People who do not understand technology are placed in technical roles, while people who like to smear and distort others, have no ability, and only talk are placed in management roles.

You can draw your own conclusions.