Workplace reviews and discussion: 兆利科技工業股份有限公司

Working hours:

1. 8:00 to 17:00 (with a flexible half-hour); most of the time, you can leave on time.

2. One-hour lunch break (12:00–13:00).

Benefits:

1. NT$100 snack allowance (for use at the coin-operated vending machine).

2. Company activities and group meals (once or twice a year).

Parking spaces:

1. They do exist (first come, first served; spaces are limited and fill up quickly).

Other:

1. Most colleagues are reasonably okay—about half of them.

2. The pressure is not extremely high. There is occasional on-call duty, but it is still manageable.

Year-end bonus:

When the company is doing well, it should be up to three months; when things are not going well, one month.

That’s all. I’ve already done my best to think of the positives.

1. You often need to go out on your own. When you return, there is often no parking space, and you will periodically end up arguing with the security guards. Some of the guards are actually pretty nice, so I’ll say that in fairness.

2. The company still has some pests: people who act like entitled old-timers (with faces that look like they are owed millions) and adult babies (who dump every task on others while lying around enjoying themselves).

There is also a “senior manager” who loves meddling in everything and has absolutely no way of thinking from the employees’ perspective.

It is extremely unfriendly to people just entering the workforce. You need to have a good temper, otherwise you will not be able to endure it.

1. There is only one microwave at noon, and you cannot even go a few minutes early to heat your food. Many people just stare blankly at one another while waiting for lunch; if you wait long enough, the entire one-hour lunch break is over.

2. They also do not allow logo-bearing bags to be brought into the company. However, the company itself does not provide bags. If I have a pile of tools and parts to take outside, am I supposed to carve them out with my mouth? Or are you going to be my bag?

3. The company’s stairs are as steep as a roller coaster. Not only do they refuse to improve them, they instead say that employees should have been more careful and not fallen. I don’t know which genius came up with that. Not hiring you as a salesperson is one of the company’s biggest losses.

4. Performance evaluations feel like they are just filled out for fun. Even if you do a lot of work and have a good-looking evaluation, what you receive is not proportional. Meanwhile, some people work overtime constantly without producing results and still get a lot just by asking. Of course, this varies by department; this part depends on luck and your ability to curry favor.

5. You will even be pressured to hurry up and use up your overtime hours. They will ask upper management to put pressure on you. It is disgusting. If they do not want to pay, they should just say so. The company says it wants to increase revenue and reduce expenses, but it turns out that means reducing expenses at the cost of our salaries…

6. The people above often have a pile of ideas and rush the people below to carry them out, but usually there is no follow-up. I already have five high-loading cases on my plate, and after being forced to finish plugin-related work, I still get criticized. Work is distributed extremely unevenly, while the idle people remain very idle… I really do not understand what is wrong.

7. The salary is not very generous (I will not disclose the amount). After all, the pressure is indeed relatively low, so weigh this for yourself—there are pros and cons.

7. Anyone who has seriously read this knows how to choose, right?