No advantages
1. On the second day after I started, I was told that my “progress was seriously behind schedule.”
2. The company uses Asana to manage projects, but the boss’s wife has her own bizarre categorization habits. No one teaches you; you have to figure it out yourself.
3. The boss and his wife have extremely old-fashioned taste.
4. Several times, projects came in without any information at all, and I was told to look up past references online and just do it myself. After finishing, I was told that I had taken the project in the wrong direction??
5. Revisions go on forever. The only responses are always “It doesn’t feel right,” “I don’t think it works,” or “It doesn’t feel refined enough.” They rarely provide any concrete suggestions about what needs to be changed.
6. You need to be prepared to make 20 versions of a single draft (and it still might not be approved).
7. During the interview, I asked how many days were usually given to complete a project. The boss said one to two weeks, but after I joined, every project had to be completed in one to two days, including researching references, sketching, and going through rounds of revisions.
8. Every project gets stuck internally, with repeated proposals and reworking.
9. Every sketch has to be accompanied by a “rationale,” but their own designs look like they were assembled from stock assets. The rationale gets 100 points while the design gets 10.
10. They never tell you what the client likes. With every revision, they give you a little more information. Only after collecting 10 rounds of revisions can you vaguely understand what the project is supposed to do. They never explain everything at the beginning—amazing. It’s as if they enjoy wasting time.
This company is always hiring. On 104, it constantly shows that resumes were processed 2–3 hours ago.
There’s a reason!! You’re basically disposable chopsticks to them.
Designers, don’t join just because the salary looks okay. In reality, you won’t be able to last even a month before leaving.
Cats are cute
No need to clock in
The software is licensed
There are group meals, and the food is pretty good
The colleagues are all very nice; they’re good people, so I feel really sorry for them
📌Everyone must read all reviews before deciding whether to come work here. Everything you see in the reviews is true.
⭐Rating: Out of 5 stars, I give it -5^^
This place seems suitable for people just entering the workforce who want to gain experience, but can accept being verbally abused and are mentally very strong.
For everyone’s information.
An unfriendly workplace with no comprehensive employee training. Your designs will constantly be rejected, and there is no design freedom. Even drafts that clients have already approved and requested changes to may be asked to be rearranged again, along with countless other horror stories.
1. The company is very small, and there are major management problems. You may be yelled at for things that aren’t your responsibility until you start feeling as if you really did something wrong.
It’s unclear whether you’re supposed to be managed by the boss’s wife or the boss. After a design is completed, the boss’s wife may say it’s okay, but the boss thinks there’s a problem. Then, after redesigning it, the boss’s wife asks why it had to be redesigned. Could you two please communicate with each other before running a company? :)
2. Before a design is sent out, it will be revised again and again. One moment they want style A, the next they want style B. Eventually, the deadline is delayed and the client’s delivery deadline is missed. You will then be blamed for lacking ability and be asked to accept a demotion and pay cut.
3. The boss speaks very abstractly, so you have no idea what he is talking about. Then you get lectured for being too slow and not finishing things.
Once you are singled out, everything you do will be considered a problem.
4. The boss won’t even look at the things you designed before saying that your design is unacceptable and must be redone. The boss’s designs are the ones that are unacceptable, haha 😚
5. Work must be arranged through a system.
They don’t give you time to become familiar with the system, nor do they provide training; they just assume it’s your own problem.
I have to ask: what job expects you to know everything without being taught?
What a crappy system 😍
6. At a small company, you’re expected to handle the entire process, while also dealing with attacks from both the boss and employees. Many clients are difficult too. If a client doesn’t reply, you’ll be told to hurry up and follow up for confirmation; but if you proactively seek the client’s confirmation, you’ll be told not to pressure the client. What exactly do you want me to do? 😃
7. You have to work as a secretary too, constantly following up with the boss about progress, deliveries, issuing invoices, and so on. If you don’t ask proactively, they’ll even ask why you didn’t follow up.
It’s hilarious—if something is assigned to the boss, shouldn’t the boss be responsible for handling it? Why do employees still have to chase them? ^_^
Who makes their employees remind them about this and that? Even after you do it, they turn around and ask why you didn’t follow up on the subsequent progress. You take the goods back yourself without saying anything—do you think employees can read minds?
8. They dismiss people on a whim and don’t even pay severance. Maybe they don’t know what severance pay is, since this company even calculates overtime pay arbitrarily.
9. Salaries have never been paid on time. Every month they say they were too busy the previous month. Which month isn’t busy, exactly? I have to ask ^_^ Employees even have to ask for their money. How ridiculous.
10. There are very few employees, but an enormous amount of work. New projects keep coming in, and urgent jobs keep being inserted.
11. A small company with a shortage of every kind of equipment. Every time, we can’t even find a utility knife—what the heck, haha.
12. Besides loving to belittle people, the boss also likes looking down on the companies you previously worked for. How hilarious—you’re the one with nothing here, yet you still dare laugh at others.
13. They spend all day interviewing people. How hilarious.
There’s no way the horror stories people saw six years ago are still happening now, right?
I’ve really seen it all.
Anyone with work experience would never want to stay in this hellhole. ^^
If this company wants to find good employees, it will have to wait until the next life.
There’s a reason many bosses are unfit for the job.
No, there really aren't any. To be honest, the only thing I learned was how to suppress my anger.
They don't even dare turn on the Google listing to show how many negative reviews there are.
1. All overtime pay is converted into compensatory leave. What they called “helping out with the exhibition setup” meant I was taken away in the morning to set things up and didn't return to the company until 11 p.m. The exhibition was opening the next day. During the exhibition the following afternoon, they suddenly drove me back and said I could leave early. The next day, they said no one was coming in the morning, so I didn't need to go either. Then I saw that the overtime hours on my overtime form had been conveniently offset completely.
2. I got the feeling that, because I am a man, I was constantly told to travel for work, move things, pack things, unpack things, laminate, unpack and move boxes, stick things on, organize rolls, and scan huge quantities of items—often being told to do it all alone. In the end, all I got was, “This is too slow.” Basically, male employees are treated as manual labor.
3. The clients' problems become your problems too. If the client doesn't provide all the files, it's your problem—and the key point is that they don't charge revision fees, so you can basically only keep making changes over and over.
4. Every day you also have to be the boss's memo, typing up so-called to-do lists. Even after you remind and urge them, they may not do it right away; they drag it out until the last minute and then blame you. It's completely absurd. Before I left, I was working on certificates. I checked the quantities, put them in order, arranged the names, and even separated them into layers. When I asked at the end, they said everything was fine. Everything had been confirmed. The next day, they said several were still in the room upstairs and asked me, “Did you know some were missing? How could you be so careless?” (Who was supposed to know??)
5. As soon as you join the company, you're expected to learn every process. When they want something changed, they can't give you any specific feedback and just throw out, “I don't think this works.” You have to find and figure out everything yourself, as if you're supposed to know everything. Then they ask you, “Isn't the file right here? Isn't it supposed to be like this?”
7. They speak extremely impatiently and occasionally make sarcastic remarks at you. If they see that you're new, they'll make things especially difficult for you. The turnover is extremely high, so I'll say no more.
8. The studio has only five people; excluding the owner and the owner's wife, there are only three employees. The owner's wife was originally a senior full-time designer, but she isn't often there and only handles major projects. Let's call it 3.5 employees. I was a design assistant along with another person, and there was also one senior designer. The workload was completely overwhelming. It was basically like hiring you for as little money as possible and making you do as much as possible. My personal experience was that it was exhausting and not worth it, and even after completing the work, they couldn't give any substantive feedback. If you're interested, you can look up the owner's educational background on Facebook.
9. The reason they ultimately wanted me to leave was: “You've been doing too much manual labor that has nothing to do with design.” They told me to move things and do this huge pile of miscellaneous tasks, then said I was doing too much manual labor?? As for design-related work, everyone had already left and there was no one to hand things over to me. Then they said my abilities were insufficient. Whenever there was work, before I had even finished one task, they would immediately dump another one on me. They were basically using me as a worker for their exhibition while paying minimum wage, making me do things that had nothing to do with my position—and all of it was assigned by the boss. I quietly treated it as work assigned by my supervisor and did it. In the end, they said I was doing too much of the work they had assigned and hoped I would leave on my own. I was like, “Okay.”
If you're planning to interview with this company, all I can say is: think twice. The supposed benefits and training system simply don't exist. And as for whether they dare turn the Google listing back on—if the rating system allowed me to give a bad rating, I'd really want to give them the worst possible rating.
There are no advantages.
Don't go in and get tricked again.
One of the few design companies in Hsinchu
This is wesend
They deleted the Google listing, but made no improvements at all
A company where it's super easy to get hired, and there are cats.
1. They don't pay you after you leave the company.
2. They are reluctant to approve overtime forms, saying that you are bad at managing your time.
3. The boss is very conceited. When my design and the boss's design were both sent to the client and the client chose my design, the boss still kept criticizing it.
4. As soon as you join the company, they expect you to become familiar with all the processes. On your second day, they even said that if you weren't familiar with them within a week, you would be asked to leave.
5. On my first day, they gave me a lot of work all at once. Before I could finish one task, they immediately assigned me another.
6. They talk to you about work during mealtimes and don't let you eat in peace.
7. They compare my previous job with theirs, as if they were more capable. In my view, my previous workplace was far more professional than this company.
8. In the end, I would tell all designers—both newcomers and veterans—to look elsewhere. A company with poor training and benefits isn't worth staying at!
The company feels easy to get into.
The interviewer really likes putting people down. If you want to do some self-reflection, you can try interviewing there.
The interviewer kept putting down the interviewee. If someone isn’t the kind of talent you’re looking for, you don’t have to criticize them like that.
Although, from the way it sounded, maybe they want an employee who is easy to exploit.
After criticizing me for ages, they finally said, “If you still want to come, contact me again.”
So funny.
By the way, this company requires constant overtime. If the work can’t be finished, it’s because the employee isn’t capable enough.
The computer is an Apple
There are cats
I strongly urge everyone considering applying for a designer position here to think twice. I sincerely do not recommend it.
I believe every designer has a different style, and each person has their own preferred way of working when designing.
However, when your way of working differs from the boss’s, or when your design style cannot quickly become something the boss likes, the boss will regard these things as shortcomings. Just as described in the previous posts, the boss will start emotionally manipulating you, making sarcastic remarks and saying that failing to change these shortcomings will affect the company’s operations. Then, they will check every day to see whether you have improved, and take the opportunity to publicly criticize you in meetings.
The company’s working methods are also very unlike those of a design company. For many projects, no time is spent discussing the design approach or concepts. Sometimes, when I ask the boss what aspects of the visuals could be improved, the boss will give vague answers such as, “It just doesn’t feel right” or “The design sense isn’t there yet,” which is baffling.
In addition, the boss likes to reveal the salaries of different designers and design assistants, then compare how much each of you is worth, which is very uncomfortable. Although the company says that overtime pay is provided, when overtime is necessary, the boss also makes sarcastic remarks that discourage everyone from submitting overtime forms.
These are the genuine feelings of the designers, including me, who worked there during that period. Those who speak up for the company should at least have held this position before making such comments.
1. iMac computers
2. Qingcao Lake Night Market next to it on Wednesdays
I mainly want to anonymously show my support for Ms. Ice’s Google review and advise kind-hearted people considering applying to your company to think twice.
The so-called SOP for knowing when to quit is to magnify your minor shortcomings at work and apply them to other aspects, then emotionally blackmail you by saying that if you do not correct these shortcomings, they will affect the company’s operations. They then review your progress every day and hold public trials in meetings whenever they get the chance.
Yes, the design industry is highly competitive, but the kind of company that should leave the field is this one.
I was hired very quickly; it felt like there weren't really any standards.
I didn't want to continue after working for just three days.
I applied for a graphic designer position.
The interview lasted about one hour. After filling out the personal information, there was a computer-based test.
Mine involved extending and arranging a banner design. The test lasted 30 minutes, and all the computers were Macs.
The conversation with the owner felt more like a chat. He gave me a very earnest explanation of the company’s current situation and the kind of person he was looking for, and analyzed how I needed to further improve my current abilities; otherwise, it would be very difficult after joining the company.
As for benefits, I was told that the basic bonuses were provided. It was a responsibility-based system, with no overtime pay.
There was a project-based bonus, and the frequency of overtime depended on how urgent the projects were as well as individual ability.
Although I was not ultimately hired, I could tell that the company had fairly high standards for its work. The owner was easy to communicate with. If they had not been interested in hiring me from the beginning, I don’t think he would have told me so much! The environment was clean and tidy; compared with the messy basement environment at my previous workplace, it was truly much better!
There was one cat, and all three colleagues were women. After the interview, I saw them playing with the cat—it was such a shame that I wasn’t hired~
The company is relatively far from the city center, and there aren’t many places to eat nearby.
The environment is very comfortable and clean, and there are cats. The boss is also very nice to people. Although I was fired for being told that my abilities did not meet the company’s requirements, overall I found that all the employees were very kind and easy to get along with.
I didn’t find any particular drawbacks.
I’m a former employee who completed three years here. These commenters probably underperformed and came here looking for sympathy, right?
The company is small, the boss is easy to communicate with, and everyone is like one big family. As long as we communicate, there aren’t many major problems. We regularly have group dinners and trips. Unless we’re really rushing to meet a deadline, even though I left a long time ago, the boss often invites us graduates out for meals and takes us on outings together.
At work, I didn’t receive overtime pay, but bonuses were based on the number of projects, so it depended on what kinds of projects you could handle. The design industry is competitive to begin with, but if you have the ability, you don’t need to worry. The projects are diverse, allowing you to build many basic skills and a portfolio, which is very helpful when looking for your next job. Everyone cleans the workplace together, so whether it’s clean or dirty depends on the individual—after all, I’m here to work.
The projects are relatively rushed, so you need to work quickly.
Very easy to get hired
Senior designer positions have high turnover. Employees are often replaced after completing just a few small projects, allowing the company to save on personnel costs while also creating a tense work atmosphere that keeps the remaining employees on edge and working hard.
The boss will use reasons such as insufficient ability, poor aesthetic sense, or being unable to create a motivating atmosphere to pressure senior designers into resigning or accepting a demotion and pay cut (even if you accept the demotion and pay cut, the boss will still find a reason to dismiss you).
After leaving the company, your wages will be withheld, and you will have to personally pursue payment.
The hiring decision was communicated very quickly
A small company with fewer than five employees
Even after hiring and starting work, the boss continued recruiting new applicants, giving the impression that they were keeping someone on while looking for a replacement. Sure enough, everyone hired before and after me was let go after working for only one month...
Overtime pay is not provided unless you apply for it
The environment is dirty and messy, with a significant discrepancy from the photos on 104 (there are many cockroaches)
The location is some distance from the city center
The senior designer is difficult to collaborate with and quite opinionated, although they are a very nice person
But the biggest problem is that the boss is not very willing to train newcomers. They hope to find a senior designer who can get up to speed quickly and will scrutinize your daily output
Everyone I got to know who worked there had the same experience: after starting work, they were told that their abilities did not meet expectations and that their aesthetic sense was insufficient. Their salary was to be reduced to NT$26,000 as a design assistant, with the apparent hope that they would realize the situation was untenable and leave
If you are very confident in your design abilities, welcome to the challenge?
Oh, and the boss has a very close relationship with the senior designer...