Workplace reviews and discussion: 達運光電股份有限公司

1. The company has a vegetable garden, and free vegetables are available every week. This is the biggest advantage.

2. Presumably because the company has been taken to task before, it doesn’t dare pay less than what is required under the Labor Standards Act. Don’t expect it to pay more, though.

3. You can train yourself to become a servant ox or horse who endures hardship in mind and body, so you’ll learn how good companies outside are.

1. If payday falls on a holiday, most companies pay early, but here they wait until the next working day. If it happens to coincide with the Lunar New Year, you’ll have to wait until after the holiday to get paid, because the chairwoman loves to say, “Do you know how much interest 100 million earns in one day if it’s kept in the bank?”

2. The chairwoman has a terrible temper and is constantly berating people. You need to have a high EQ and be willing to work like an ox or horse without complaint to work here.

3. Every employee only thinks about avoiding being berated by the chairwoman. Whether something is right or wrong doesn’t matter; if it can be pushed off, they push it off, and if it can be avoided, they avoid it. No one is willing to take responsibility.

4. The system is extremely chaotic and changes from one day to the next. Everything depends on whether the chairwoman is in a good mood that day. When she’s happy, everyone keeps submitting documents for her signature; when she’s unhappy, no one even dares walk past the entrance.

5. The managers here have also become accustomed to being treated like slaves. When they see that a subordinate hasn’t finished their work (there is basically no such thing as finishing everything), they require the subordinate to work overtime just as the manager does—but it’s the unpaid kind. They call it a duty-based system, but it goes far beyond the responsibilities you should be expected to bear.

6. A single document can be repeatedly resubmitted for signatures and seals just because the chairwoman wants something changed when she sees something she dislikes. Whenever anything is changed, everyone who signed the document before has to sign it all over again—on paper. It’s a waste of life. You may get nothing else done from morning to night, spending several days just running documents around.

7. They really like delaying payments to suppliers. They try every possible way to pay late, pay less, or not pay at all.

8. Taking leave is very likely to become difficult. Not only do you need a substitute to sign and approve it, you also have to brief the substitute on the handover of your tasks in advance. If the substitute happens to refuse to provide support, you have to find another way yourself, such as handling things remotely.

9. They love saving small amounts of money by buying shoddy, barely adequate materials. When the materials cause problems, they then look for someone to blame. In the end, when they discover that the chairwoman simply didn’t want to spend money and was trying to take advantage of a bargain, the matter is dropped. The company then has to spend even more money cleaning up the mess, so projects are handled extremely poorly.

I left a long time ago. If anyone is thinking of interviewing here, I hope they see this and change their mind. No matter what conditions they offer you, don’t accept them. Run.