Workplace reviews and discussion: 中山醫學大學附設醫院

At the Chung Shan Medical University Hospital Artificial Intelligence Center, if you love meetings and writing functional planning documents, as long as you are willing to nod along and provide your supervisor with a bit of emotional validation at the right moments, then during a five-day workweek, you will have three afternoons when you can sit in a chair and focus on listening to your supervisor turn content that could originally be explained in ten minutes into a meeting lasting as long as an hour and a half.

In meetings, your supervisor will “thoughtfully” share some little stories they have heard to help you get into the context, but the functional details are always vague. In the end, engineers still have to come up with the ideas themselves and write the proposal. The proposal must include a feature list, time estimates, risk analysis, and so on—but don’t worry, it’s fine if it’s incomplete, because your supervisor generally won’t read it, and even if they do, they’ll forget it completely within an hour.

It is only when a clinical department raises a request for improvement or a major functional failure occurs that your supervisor will summon some of the engineers (注意：只有平日給足情緒價值的人才有資格參加哦 ^_^). The focus of the meeting is usually not the functional solution, but for you to listen attentively as your supervisor vents about external pressure and physical and mental exhaustion, so that you can deeply understand “how difficult and苦辛 it is to be a supervisor.” At about this point, the meeting can conclude smoothly, and the remaining work is naturally left to the engineers to debug themselves.

Don’t forget—this wonderful experience is not an occasional surprise, but a fixed appointment at least three times a week. If you aspire to become your supervisor’s thoughtful little helper and love listening to stories, this is absolutely the best stage for you.

In addition, if you enjoy making presentations, you absolutely cannot miss the opportunities here. The supervisor personally does not like taking on unpaid presentations, so they will “surprise” you by notifying you one to three days in advance about all kinds of presentation assignments for hospital visiting groups. Sometimes they will even tell you after work that you have to take the stage first thing the next morning. This will thoroughly test your ability to react on the spot and your work efficiency. As for overtime pay? Sorry, an overtime system is not popular here. You ask what to do? It’s simple—just quickly put together a presentation in an hour tomorrow morning. After all, life is about being fulfilled and full of surprises.

Therefore, my sincere recommendation:

If you long to grow beside such a one-of-a-kind supervisor, please bravely submit your résumé. You will definitely gain an unforgettable work experience here, and perhaps even find yourself never wanting to leave once you’ve settled in.

People who have too many ideas, too much of their own mind, or too much work experience should preferably not come here. Because what supervisors fear most is someone asking a question they cannot answer.

You have to understand—the person only comes to work because they want to hold meetings, show off their storytelling abilities, and casually make a few empty promises. That is their stage every day.

Imagine this: You are an engineer, yet you have to follow the directions of a supervisor who knows absolutely nothing about programming, while also waiting for them to tell you “to what extent this feature should be developed.” The problem is, they have no picture in mind at all and cannot understand what you are saying. At this point, if you insist on discussing the details, you are making things difficult for a supervisor who survives by smooth-talking.

So, if you are too serious, too professional, or too determined to do things well—sorry, you will live a very painful life here.

Think of that meme online: run away, fast.