Let me clarify first: this is based on my personal experience. The original text contained a lot of emotional wording; I later asked AI to整理 it and confirmed that nothing was embellished before publishing. I still want to list some pros in this section.

1. Free ice cream to eat

2. Beautiful mountains and waters for a healthy lifestyle

3. That's it—I can't even think of a third advantage. QAQ

## TiSPACE｜Former Employee Experience

First, the conclusion: If you are considering joining because of the themes of “the space industry, rockets, or startups,” I recommend carefully confirming the **actual job duties, direct supervisor, departmental responsibilities, overtime culture, and employee turnover rate** before the interview. Everything below is based on my personal experiences and observations during my employment.

### 1. The company culture is somewhat closed off, with a noticeable clique mentality

I personally felt that the company had a noticeable clique culture, and the overall atmosphere was rather gloomy.

The company has quite a few employees or consultants from the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology system, as well as many recent master’s and doctoral graduates. In my experience, the management and working methods were more traditional. Even when someone asked, “Why do we have to do it this way?” the answer might simply be, “That’s how people used to do it.”

For example, after an experiment was completed, leaking water or drainage had to be handled. Although an appropriate drainage method could clearly have been planned directly, the team on site required us to connect a pump separately. When I asked why, the gist of the answer was that people had always done it this way, so we should follow suit.

People who like asking why, improving processes, and emphasizing engineering efficiency may need some time to adapt.

### 2. The weekend overtime culture made me very uncomfortable

During my employment, I often saw people come to the office to work overtime on Saturdays and Sundays and take photos of themselves working to post in the company group chat.

Overtime itself is one thing, but this culture of “coming to the office to work on weekends and specifically taking photos to share in the group chat” was something I personally found very difficult to get used to. It created an atmosphere of showing how hard and how intensely one was working.

If you place a high value on work-life balance, I recommend directly asking about the actual overtime frequency and weekend attendance during the interview.

### 3. The actual work may differ from the position originally applied for

I originally applied for a mechanical design-related position, but later, due to the company’s project needs, I was assigned to support work such as 3D reverse scanning. This differed significantly from my original understanding of the role.

At the time, I also directly told my supervisor that this was not my area of expertise and that someone more suitable should be assigned to handle it.

The response I received was:

“Men can’t say they can’t do it.”

This made me extremely uncomfortable.

Without even discussing whether the statement implied anything else, from a management perspective, when an employee raises concerns about professional expertise and work allocation, I would expect a discussion about resources, capabilities, and project arrangements—not this kind of response.

### 4. Cross-departmental responsibilities and procurement procedures were extremely confusing

Once, a colleague found the material they needed and asked me to help inquire with procurement.

After I contacted procurement, procurement instead asked me to check with a vendor they knew to see whether the material was available. After I confirmed that it was not, I went back to procurement, only to be told that this was not something they handled and that I should go to the supervisor instead.

So what had originally been a simple request to have procurement find a material eventually became the engineer’s responsibility:

Find the requirement → Ask procurement → Contact the supplier personally → Go back to procurement → Contact the supervisor again.

The entire process left me very confused about the company’s division of responsibilities and problem-solving procedures.

### 5. My experience communicating with the supervisor was poor

After the procurement issue described above, I was instructed to handle it with the supervisor.

I tried to explain why it was necessary to look for other suppliers, but throughout the conversation I was repeatedly asked, “Why do you need to find another vendor?” Even after I explained the requirements again, the discussion remained stuck on the same question.

In the end, I stated directly that if there were questions about the assignment, the supervisor could contact the colleague who had originally assigned the work, because repeatedly questioning me would not resolve the issue more efficiently.

Afterward, the supervisor touched or patted my arm.

Regardless of how the other person subjectively viewed the extent of the gesture, I personally strongly disliked the supervisor making this kind of physical contact during a work-related argument or disagreement.

### 6. I once heard workplace remarks that I found inappropriate

During my employment, I personally heard a supervisor say to a salesperson who was eating lunch relatively late, approximately:

“Why are you eating lunch so late? You’re so fat; it’s okay for you to eat a little less.”

Together with the earlier “Men can’t say they can’t do it” remark directed at me, this left me with a very poor impression of the manager’s workplace communication style.

Everyone has a different tolerance for jokes, but if you place great importance on a supervisor’s communication boundaries and respect in the workplace, I recommend taking this into consideration.

### 7. The employee turnover rate was one of the biggest warning signs during my employment

I worked there for approximately half a year. Based on my observations and impressions at the time, around 30–40 people left the company during my tenure. The turnover rate surprised me considerably.

One of them was a person who had applied for a position as head of the manufacturing department and left less than a few months after joining. I spoke with him at the time, and he also had quite a few opinions about the management style.

Therefore, if I were to reassess this company now, I would definitely ask during the interview:

“How long did the previous employee in this position stay?”

“How many people left this department in the past year?”

“Why is this position open now?”

### 8. I found the project direction and decision-making methods difficult to accept

At the time, the company needed to display heat-dissipation-related products at an exhibition.

However, based on my actual work experience, approximately one month before the exhibition, another supervisor who was not a specialist in this field and I were asked to help design heat sinks.

I found this extremely surprising because a thermal product should involve heat transfer, fluid flow, materials, manufacturing, and experimental validation. It cannot be completed simply by “drawing something that looks like a heat sink.”

I later learned that the exhibition results seemed to fall short of expectations, and the Sales Team was subsequently eliminated.

I was not a participant in the company’s decision-making meetings, so I cannot comment on the true reason for the elimination. However, from the perspective of a former employee, I was left with serious doubts about whether the relationship between the “quality of front-end project decisions” and “the people who ultimately bear the consequences” was reasonable.

### Overall assessment

The company’s subject matter is genuinely appealing: space, rockets, and startups. It is easy for recent graduates or people hoping to enter the aerospace industry to become inspired by it.

However, my actual employment experience differed greatly from my original expectations of a “high-tech startup.”

The biggest problem was not any single incident, but the accumulation of several issues:

**The clique culture, the weekend overtime atmosphere, the gap between the actual work and the job description, unclear cross-departmental responsibilities, management’s communication style, the employee turnover rate, and the way projects were decided.**

If you are very interested in the rocket or space industry, you can still go for an interview and learn more, since the experience may differ completely between departments and supervisors.

However, I recommend not joining solely because of themes such as “Taiwan Space / Rocket / Startup.”

During the interview, be sure to clarify:

**What you will actually be doing, who your direct supervisor will be, why the position is open, how long the previous person stayed, whether weekend overtime is frequent, how many people leave the department each year, and whether your work duties may be substantially reassigned.**

At least based on my personal employment experience, I would not consider joining again.