The company has a strong vision and promising prospects, and offers plenty of freedom to develop and apply your creativity. All the basic benefits are provided!
You can frequently travel to major museums.
The policies and benefits could be made more transparent.
Fresh graduates can learn a lot at this company and gradually take on responsibilities independently!
If you are serious about learning, this company offers a large stage for you to showcase your abilities.
Of course, every company has its pros and cons, and corporate cultures differ as well.
It all depends on what you think and what you want! Stay if you like it; leave if you don't.
No one can force either party~
I hope compensation can be commensurate with the effort put in, so that the company can retain its people.
Because the company is severely understaffed, it is very easy for people from related fields to get hired (I was even hired after just one phone call).
If you are interested in cultural artifacts, motivated people can learn a lot.
Punctual working hours (I was a part-time worker).
There are already too few people, and the supervisors only watch without doing any work; sometimes they even make things worse.
The scale of the entire project is very stressful. Because there are not enough people, it often feels somewhat powerless.
People come and go, so handovers happen frequently.
The salary is standard, and the benefits are fairly good; for a small or medium-sized enterprise, they are reasonable and unremarkable.
Colleagues are easy to get along with, and there are also plenty of opportunities to interact with clients, including government agencies, museums, foundations, and others, through work.
In all fairness, if you simply want to work for a salary, or do not need a sense of career achievement from your job and instead treat it as an interest, this is a reasonable option to consider.
The department is young, so someone with no relevant academic or professional background was parachuted in to take charge of the business. The manager tries to save the company money, so sometimes reasonable employee requests for work-related consumables, transportation costs, business-trip meals, and other relatively minor expenses are blocked by the manager and never reported upward. As a result, sometimes requests are approved and sometimes they are not.
(In simple terms, whether employees can spend company money or expect a raise depends on the manager’s mood and memory.)
The manager was parachuted in, and the department is run according to personal authority; consequently, the manager can spend working hours buying tea ware, brewing tea, doing rehabilitation exercises, and so on—because the manager does not have to clock in or out. The manager always claims to be the busiest person, the earliest to arrive, and the latest to leave, while treating it as an employee’s expected contribution whenever an employee leaves later than the manager.
All this power can also be understood simply as the boss not wanting to deal with matters personally.
The manager’s busiest task on projects is arbitrarily calculating how to squeeze out and further reduce project staffing. (However, the workload and schedule required by the project are fixed.)
The next priority is changing the font in reports. As for the content, it is full of typographical errors, so those errors are not corrected; the manager also does not understand the other professional substance, and therefore cannot revise the content or arrange a “feasible” schedule.
Professional quality is not important. The manager only cares about the project’s numbers each day, and regardless of how much is produced, always considers the output too slow (because the manager considers project work superficial). Even after a situation has been explained to the manager, the same questions will be asked repeatedly. When the manager encounters a problem in a project that cannot be solved independently, the manager would rather keep going around in circles using their own method until time runs out than listen to other people’s suggestions.
Simply put, the company is not particularly bad, but the problem is that the lack of a proper system has led to a personality-driven management approach; this is also the consensus among most people.
And I believe this is not the only company in Taiwan like this.
1. Very good at painting a rosy picture: everything they say during the interview sounds wonderful, but in reality there are all kinds of tasks that leave you unable to wrap things up. You are always working overtime, there is always unfinished work, and there is no overtime pay—in fact, the hours even exceed the limits stipulated by the Labor Standards Act. This allows you to gain a wealth of experience. Truly wonderful.
2. The supervisors are extremely good at shirking responsibility. When something happens, their first response is to push it onto their subordinates to distance themselves from blame, allowing you to learn how to shoulder responsibility. The company has such wonderful supervisors.
3. The company’s reimbursement process is absurdly complicated. Even a NT$10 pen has to go through reimbursement approval all the way to the chairman. Just getting through the process requires signatures from a huge number of supervisors. The upside is that you get to have plenty of nice chats with your supervisors—they are all very concerned about your family matters!
4. You are always paying out of pocket for the company, usually around NT$1,000 to NT$5,000, and sometimes even as much as NT$20,000 in a single month. The monthly salary is not much to begin with, yet you still have to constantly front money for the company. The company’s reimbursement process is also slow, allowing you to learn the spirit of enduring hardship and hard work. Absolutely amazing.
5. The company has a very high turnover rate and is always hiring, so as long as you dare to apply and come for an interview, you can almost always pass with a perfect score.
6. Every morning at 8:00, everyone has to gather on the first floor of the company and listen to the chairman recite various Confucian sayings. Current affairs and other topics are often mixed in as well. These motivational speeches can give you 100% energy to work all day. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
Working at this company allows you to learn many of the advantages listed above. Since there are so many advantages, it is a company with practically no disadvantages.
The colleagues are easy to get along with
I found that everything shared above is all the truth
so I won't repeat it
I can only say that this company believes in... survival of the fittest and elimination of the unfit
Mm-hmm, how ridiculous!
everything is bullshit!
So self-satisfied—what a failure
and then who exactly would want a supervisor who fusses over them and shows concern?
All we want is a supervisor who is professional and capable, who doesn't need to be taught step by step by junior staff. Is that really so difficult?
1. The company is considerate toward fresh graduates with no experience and asks you to work overtime, hoping you can get up to speed as quickly as possible. It’s so touching it nearly brings you to tears.
2. “Reasonable demands are training; unreasonable demands are tempering.” You’ll deeply understand this here. There’s no overtime pay, only a meal allowance for working late. Yay.
3. The company has no year-end bonus, but it does offer performance bonuses. Performance bonuses are issued depending on the circumstances. Considering that fresh graduates just entering the workforce need to save money, they won’t be issued—after all, you’d spend them anyway.
4. To foster employee solidarity, there’s a morning meeting at 8:00 a.m. Besides work, the meeting includes sharing little stories, current events, and various miscellaneous things. Sob sob sob sob, how moving! Where else can you find a company that cares so much about its employees?
5. The dormitory reminds you of the studio apartments exclusively rented to students during your university days, bringing back memories of your impoverished student life.
6. There are no systems or procedures for the work. How wonderful—you have to learn self-reliance and develop the ability to work independently.
7. The employee turnover rate is high. After working there long enough, it’s easy to become a veteran employee, reliving the feeling of being the top dog during your military service.
8. You’re at location A today and location B tomorrow, training you to teleport instantaneously. So this isn’t a design company after all, but a magic-teaching company!
9. The company is highly ambitious, but it needs employees’ help to achieve its goals, teaching you how to start from scratch.
1. Sob sob sob, the company is too wonderful—I can’t think of any shortcomings.
You can come into contact with artifacts from museums
1. Every project at the company is a bottomless hole that can never be filled, and they still expect you to work overtime for free to fill it!
2. The dormitory is crowded and co-ed!
3. The manager of the Documentation Department came from the Business Department and doesn't understand culture or artifacts at all; all they do is stand around supervising!
4. The company loves making grand promises!
5. They transfer you on a whim: today you're in Taipei, tomorrow in Taoyuan, and the day after tomorrow in Miaoli!
6. They like hiring fresh graduates because they're easier to push around!
The interview was very pleasant, and it felt like there was a good opportunity. However, you need to find your own position and clearly understand what you want in order to fit in quickly.
There are 2 to 3 rounds of interviews, which takes a bit of time!
The company has a strong vision and promising prospects, and offers plenty of freedom to develop and express creativity. All the basic benefits are provided!
There are frequent opportunities to travel to major museums.
The policies and benefits could be made more transparent.
Very good at making grand promises.
The subsidiary has no boundaries. When rushing to meet tender deadlines, employees are required to arrive at the office early, and you never know when you’ll get off work. But there are always little elves to help clock out at 5:30 p.m. There is no overtime pay, meal allowance, or food allowance. In short, whatever you do, don’t come.
A strange design company, but the interior is pretty good.
There isn't even a banana peel, yet they have a great chat with you; the boss is ambitious but lacks determination; everything is kept simple.