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

None. I am very disappointed in the company.

After thinking about it for a long time, there are some things I must clarify on behalf of people from the past. There was previously an excellent engineering manager here. Although he was nominally responsible for the system, he proactively helped manage the frontend, systems, ad server, and cloud services for the company’s benefit. He even corrected years’ worth of erroneous data from the data team leader and taught the PMs how to manage and handle things better.

He did a great deal for the company and stabilized our morale. While he was here, the entire department was at its most stable and steadily growing. That continued until a department head arrived who liked playing office politics, could not stand people who were more capable or valuable than him, constantly disrupted the entire system, and even began smearing others.

But we were only junior employees, working just to earn a living, and we had no way to speak out directly to the company. We even privately considered signing a joint petition with the company to have that department head removed, but he was the boss’s friend, so we could not. For the sake of making a living, we could only endure it.

The boss was also brainwashed by the department head. All day long, he believed everything the department head said was correct and that everyone else was smearing him. He was truly incapable of distinguishing right from wrong. He even turned around and claimed that the manager was deceiving us.

Those of us on the front line worked with him and knew him and what he had done. We did not learn about these things merely through hearsay.

At the time, that manager held the lowest-level managerial position, yet he had to handle the affairs of the entire department. The company not only failed to thank him, but also chose to believe the words of people spreading malicious rumors. I heard that the company had considered promoting him to RDD in the early days, but there was a staffing shortage. He did not want to abandon the people under him and wanted to work together with them to fix the company’s systems on the front line before considering it in the future. Yet the company never thanked him for his efforts.

He is still being smeared by that department head to this day. I truly do not know how deep the hatred or conflict is, but the company should seriously reflect on it.

They keep saying that there was no proper handover, but that manager handled the handover most meticulously. He prepared a file checklist covering the architecture and the corresponding solutions to every issue, and we all signed off on it. They claim he recklessly tampered with the system, left traps behind, and deliberately sabotaged it. When we later encountered problems, we privately asked that manager how to solve them, and he has continued helping us resolve them for free to this day. Even when we were preparing to resign, he was smeared as having incited everyone to leave. When he was about to resign, he repeatedly emphasized to us that it was his personal choice and told us to think carefully and not resign impulsively. He said that if we encountered problems, he would help us, and that we should not put ourselves under too much pressure. Even when he left, he wrote a document for the entire system outlining future correction directions and the work that needed to be done. Is this what they call an incomplete handover? Is this malicious sabotage?

In reality, he truly continued helping us all along. But those of us who had been engineers and PMs there for a relatively long time simply could not continue working under that department head. That department head was far too incompetent.

The company truly owes a great deal to the people who came before, all for the sake of currying favor with its own friends. But what could we do? The company is not ours.

I believe that if the company is willing to compare things over the past six months, it will gradually come to understand his contributions and the changes he made for the company, compared with the current period of major decline and heavy losses.