Flexible working hours
As for an engineer's work, it's basically testing and fixing various issues. If you come here, don't expect your coding skills to improve; if-else statements and basic structure are all you need. The only thing you can learn is how to clean up issues caused by anyone, moving toward becoming a debugging expert.
As for the salary... well... if you want to earn more (in northern Taiwan, it's not actually that much more), your performance has to be good. They guarantee you'll work overtime every day. Overtime is treated as an assumed responsibility: on the surface, they follow the Labor Standards Act, but in practice, when you submit overtime hours, your supervisor will block them using all kinds of excuses.
By the way, you also have to know how to pick which issues to solve. It's best to choose the simple ones, so it looks like you've solved a lot of issues and your performance will be good. If you're assigned to develop a new feature, you can only pray—your performance definitely won't be good, because it looks like you've only done one thing.
Actually, the people and the environment seemed pretty good. The interviewer and the R&D staff were both quite friendly and professional.
Although I ultimately received an offer, after considering my BU options, I decided to go with another company~
When I came for the interview, the receptionist who greeted me was pretty damn unpleasant (I interviewed on the 11th floor).
Your company must be pretty damn impressive—putting someone like this at the front desk of that floor and not feeling embarrassed about it...
I was secretly laughing to myself. So it turns out a company's receptionist and HR can put someone like this on display to show just how low they can go... (Haha, first time I've ever seen anything like this XD
1. Flexible working hours with time-clock records; you can freely choose when to start work between 9:00 and 10:30 a.m., as long as you work a full eight hours.
2. The building’s interior is spacious and luxurious, and the facilities are clean and bright. There is a pantry with many complimentary foods available for anyone to take, including soft drinks, snacks, coffee, instant noodles, and cookies.
1. The job consists of solving an endless stream of issues.
2. Supervisors pressure employees to write work logs every day.
3. They say there will be training, but in reality they simply dump a pile of incomprehensible videos on you and force you to finish watching them within just a few days. It is completely perfunctory—in simple terms, they leave you to fend for yourself, showing no concern for how well you are learning and caring only about when you will resolve the issue.
4. They constantly rush and pressure employees over work, regardless of their well-being; all they care about is having employees resolve issues.
Thank you for the opportunity to interview.
Position interviewed for: Test Engineer
This was the first time in the entire interview process that I encountered an interview where the discussion came before the test.
The discussion was about my previous experience.
The test was an English test.
After I finished, they collected the test paper and immediately told me I could leave.
I didn’t even know the name or position of the person who interviewed me.
An experience from several years ago: Generally speaking, it gave me a fairly friendly impression, but through conversations with several different interviewers, I could vaguely sense an atmosphere of infighting between departments.
- Although I ultimately received an offer, the salary was not high for a foreign company, and the terms felt quite stingy, so I ultimately declined and joined another foreign company instead.
- American on the outside, Taiwanese at heart
Just an agency learning to put on an act—a good place for pushing work others won’t do onto people and for getting things done with your mouth. The pay isn’t much, and the economic environment is very poor.