The company makes money
The company is harsh toward its employees. Even if you work yourself to the bone, you can earn at most NT$30,000–40,000 a month, while working 12–14 hours a day. Typically, in a branch office, only one salesperson—the veteran employee—makes money. Veteran employees can take on company accounts and tap into the resources of long-time clients, but even their income is at most a little over NT$60,000. Besides competing with coworkers, you also have to scheme against your supervisor. Supervisors are very good at manipulating people through account assignments: they may assign you a lousy account with a bonus of less than NT$1,000, while giving better ones to veteran employees. They use account assignments to make you work harder and play petty tricks. This is a terrible work environment. You would expect people to work hard competing with other companies externally, but having them fight among themselves internally is ridiculous too. It is truly exhausting. Although this is a large company, it has no comprehensive management system—its management is primitive and arbitrary, and it can never retain employees. If you want a promotion, you have to flatter the right people. After working like a dog for several years, you might be promoted to section manager at most. I have heard that a section manager’s salary is only NT$50,000–60,000 a month. Young people should think twice before entering this industry, because I can guarantee that you will eventually quit—unless you enjoy this kind of environment.
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Uses video interviews to trick job seekers into providing their information
Two days off per week, menstrual leave
Three major holidays, bonuses, annual leave
1. Management method: uploading photos to a group (schedules, handling status, client visits)
2. Nonstop meetings
3. You can be transferred very easily, so sales staff cannot stay in one area for long unless they have someone backing them
4. If you do not want a promotion, you may still be pressured to take one; otherwise, you will be transferred to a less desirable unit
5. The area is very important, but if you are in a bad area, you really just waste time. Getting a good area is a matter of luck
6. You must not offend your supervisor—this is very important. If you do not believe it, try it yourself
7. An endless amount of work
8. Even after you have accumulated enough seniority, the work and performance targets never seem to get finished
9. A promotion does not necessarily mean earning more money; the key is the area
10. A market-leader mentality: everyone else is terrible, and only you are No. 1
11. The staffing shortage is extremely serious (you will know why if you try it yourself). When the shortage is severe, you will be exhausted, including those in management positions
12. Promotion is worse than staying at the entry level
13. You really need to save your income and cannot spend recklessly, because here, plans can never keep up with changes
If you want to give it a try after reading the above, go ahead and see for yourself
Very good at painting a rosy picture, with a long history of being harsh toward employees. Even on typhoon days off, they’ll say, “You still dare to take a day off without meeting your targets? Come to work.” But when typhoons hit, factories and stores are closed—what are you supposed to visit? Sales staff work overtime without pay (and still have to clock out on time, then continue working after clocking out, in an attempt to evade the Labor Standards Act).
Harsh toward employees. Even if you work yourself to death, you can earn at most NT$30,000–40,000 a month. You work 12–14 hours a day. Usually, in a branch office, only one sales representative makes money—and that person is typically a veteran employee. Veterans can absorb public accounts and take resources from established customers (the answer above is exactly right). Besides competing with colleagues, you also have to engage in office politics with supervisors. Supervisors are very good at manipulating people through public accounts: they assign you a lousy account with a bonus of less than NT$1,000 (bonuses for chain-store accounts are under NT$1,000, and 30% of the bonus is also deducted as a provident-fund contribution. The supervisor tells you that contributions won’t be deducted if the amount is under NT$700, then changes it to NT$500, and eventually does everything possible to deduct a provident-fund contribution from that pathetic account bonus of less than NT$500). Accounts for Hi-Life and 7-ELEVEN convenience stores pay very little. Even when you meet your performance targets, they still deduct the contribution from you. A NT$500 bonus is reduced by another 30%, which isn’t even enough to cover your fuel costs. They use public accounts to threaten you, telling you that they won’t assign accounts if you don’t meet your targets. This is what a terrible working environment looks like. You might say that competing with other companies in the market and working hard is reasonable, but having to fight among yourselves internally is ridiculous.
There are just over 50 branch offices across Taiwan. If a branch’s performance is below 60%, it is considered a failure, but even when you exceed 60% every month, you still get criticized. You are ranked among the bottom 15. Suppose every branch in Taiwan achieves over 100% performance—passing with a perfect score and exceeding it—but you are still in the bottom 15. You will still be reviewed and criticized. They hold reviews simply for the sake of reviewing. I have to ask: other security companies are not inferior to Chung Hsing in terms of prices, promotions, or even equipment. Some charge less and give you 16 security cameras, charging only NT$2,300 per month, while you start at NT$2,500 and provide nothing. Do they think Taiwanese people are suckers, or have they lost their minds? Everyone works very hard to make sales, but it isn’t New Year every day. If it were really that easy and profitable, why are the general manager and chairman the only ones driving luxury cars? From headquarters and management offices down to branch-office employees, who doesn’t end up selling a kidney or a lung and losing money? Sometimes supervisors even assign you extremely difficult accounts without construction fees or deposits, and you end up paying the installers out of your own pocket. The general manager at headquarters is basically putting on a show for the chairman. Although this is a large company, the industry lacks a sound management system; management is crude and arbitrary, and the company can never retain employees.
Those considering joining, please think carefully first—especially sales staff. Various headquarters departments, the chain-store division, the disaster-prevention division, and others will compete with you for the market and sales, leaving you only the scraps, and then pressure you to meet the performance targets for all the departments.
Close to the MRT station—turn left after coming down from Zhongxiao Bridge and you'll be there.
Square root of (9+10-5+2-9) squared, at the XX location of f
I truly do not recommend working for this company. It is a Japanese company that loves nitpicking and making things difficult for employees. Performance reviews are only given the grades A, B, and C—the third one—for everyone, while they give themselves the first one, with the aim of preventing you from getting promoted or receiving raises, while securing their own position. At work, they pick on your minor faults: not reading certain messages, personal regulations, work rules. Are they acting like a sergeant major?
They emphasize punishment while glossing over rewards. Doing a good job is considered what you should do, as if everyone were a saint who never makes mistakes; once you make a mistake, you are treated as if you deserve to die ten thousand deaths.
Work is distributed unevenly, and they have a very poor sense of time: being late to meetings, last-minute meetings, last-minute projects, discussions during lunch breaks, and dumping work on you just before quitting time. If you leave work on time, you will be singled out; if you arrive at work on time, you will also be singled out.
DMJ is very emotional at work and likes monitoring people. They often crane their necks to look around at employees. If someone comes over to take a look and happens to be a supervisor, you will be labeled as inattentive at work. They make whatever rules they want and have secretly established a whole bunch of workplace rules, completely contradicting ㄌㄐㄈ. I really don't know whether the supervisors actually know how supervisors are supposed to act. If they don't know, they should take a class. They have been working as frogs in a well for years and still don't realize it.
Your achievements will be taken away, your abilities will be persecuted, you will share the blame, but you will get none of the credit.
Every extra day you stay means one day closer to an early death. Leaving is the best explanation I can give my ancestors~
The company is publicly listed, right?
I received a phone invitation for an interview, but even the content of the conversation itself left me full of questions?
My usual practice is to first get a preliminary understanding of some details over the phone, and then consider whether to go for the interview.
The first thing that left me stunned was the base salary.
When I asked about the base salary range, they directly asked whether I attended a public or private university.
For graduates of private universities, they simply said the base salary was 【30,800】.
I’ve been working for a while now. Although I’ve only worked in sales for two years, I’ve also developed clients among well-known companies (do they not look at résumés at all?
They directly use public versus private universities to determine starting salaries—what kind of company is this? So incredibly traditional.
After all, sales is about business development and results. Who looks at your academic background! This company is so traditional—what exactly is wrong with it?
Sales staff have to ride motorcycles to develop business; there are no company vehicles.
They said that if you receive a project from another county or city, it will still count toward your commission, but someone else will take over the project for you.
(Isn’t this a bug? Why would someone else do unpaid work for you?)
Sales staff have to go into the office to clock in every morning, and also return to the company to enter data and so on.
I directly asked whether the sales assistants weren’t supposed to help with this. Going back and forth to the company is actually a huge waste of time.
Is a company this large really unable to set up remote computer access?
No wonder I saw so many negative reviews when I searched online!
Still thinking
The equipment design drawings are planned haphazardly, resulting in many false alarms; adding wireless equipment leads to even more false alarms
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There are too many shortcomings: closed-minded, assuming that the world they see is the world, and quite a few boastful managers.
Applied for the graphic designer (advertising and communications) position. Job responsibilities: 1. Graphic design 2. Copywriting design 3. Project activities
Note: Planning experience and the ability to lead or support project execution are especially preferred.
Salary: Monthly salary of NT$40,000 or more (fixed or variable compensation may vary depending on individual qualifications or performance).
I have worked in graphic design-related roles, and after receiving a job offer, I went to the interview.
1. The building is impressive, the location is convenient, and it is close to Beimen MRT Station.
2. Mac computers are provided.
3. The HR representative was kind, courteous, and polite, and provided a detailed explanation of the benefits. Compared with other small companies, the benefits are fairly extensive. However, when discussing the salary structure, they indicated that the final salary you discussed with the supervisor is calculated only after adding everything together. They kept hinting that this was complicated, so please interpret it for yourselves.
I have to criticize the interviewer here, but this is based on my personal experience, so please take it as a reference only.
1. Before the interview, they asked me to provide three available times. However, they later said the supervisor had meetings during all of those times. One of the times was 10:00, but they asked whether it could be changed to 9:00. It made me wonder whether they could simply have provided the available times from the beginning, since the company clearly does not have many options.
2. After the time was changed as described above, HR quickly explained the company benefits, and then the supervisor did not show up until 9:30. The supervisor even asked, “Wasn’t it changed to 9:30...?”
3. The job description said I would handle vendor DMs and exhibition planning, and asked me to do design work, but then said that exhibition planning meant finding vendors to do the design—you would not have to do it yourself, but you had to understand communication and also know how to design. It felt rather repetitive and contradictory. At first, they said I only needed to understand graphic design, but as the conversation went on, they suddenly said I also needed to know how to shoot videos....
4. In the end, I discovered that the job title and the actual responsibilities did not quite match. The supervisor seemed embarrassed and angry, and started picking on me, saying, “Are you sure you still want to do this job?”
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I admit that I do not have much experience, but when the job responsibilities are so unclear and they call someone in for an interview only to talk nonsense, it is truly a waste of everyone’s time.
Those with experience or anyone considering applying can use this as a reference. After all, the company’s name is fairly well known, and the benefits are reasonably decent (?).
This company is full of useless old-timers who are basically of no use. To put it bluntly, they have only been here a long time but are still a bunch of deadweights; the company treats them like treasures. You have to suck up to get promoted; people at the bottom are worked to death. A bunch of old deadweights do nothing but sit around collecting high salaries. Hiring any young person would be better than these so-called managers. It’s a really bizarre company, with old-timers making up more than 50%. A bunch of useless old deadweights.
It’s terrible; there’s nothing good to say.
Monthly salary of 40,000; the company will not go bankrupt; loans are easy to obtain from banks
Too many
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The workload is distributed unevenly. The deputy section chief in charge of operations spends every workday in the office scrolling on their phone and does not handle assigned tasks. The team leader and operations staff are exhausted from going out to work, while the deputy section chief in charge of operations is unwilling to take shifts. We hired an operations deputy section chief who spends every workday eating and sleeping, then scrolling on their phone after waking up. This is an uneven distribution of work.
Very close to the MRT station
The manager is incompetent and enjoys office politics. They exclude people who might pose a threat to the parachuted-in hire. They also give all of other people's credit to the parachuted-in hire.
An extremely, extremely, extremely tiring job
The work is very busy, the pay is very low, and the 12-hour workday actually amounts to a very low hourly wage. Other stationed security guards and security personnel have low pay because their work is very easy. Working at Secutech is extremely busy and exhausting, yet the pay is still so low.
Don't know
HR sent the interview invitation through 104 themselves, saying it would be a video interview for a design position.
After the interview began, five minutes into my self-introduction... I was constantly and repeatedly interrupted by HR halfway through speaking (the other supervisor did not say a word from beginning to end).
They had previously just sent a URL and told the interviewee to look at it themselves.
They kept asking the interviewee: “Do you have anything you’d like to ask us about the job?”
Then they asked about expected salary, reasons for leaving my previous job, and how I would commute to work.
Our company is extremely strict about lateness, with no flexibility at all, and employees cannot take on freelance work after joining.
They lacked even the most basic courtesy and respect. They were basically just casting a wide net.
If they were short on time, they should have simply said at the beginning that a brief verbal interview would be enough.
Position applied for: Internal Staff
The starting base salary after joining is approximately 25K. If you subsequently advance in rank, the salary increases by approximately 3K per level.
Base salary plus bonuses; dividends, bonuses for the three major holidays, and an annual bonus (three months) are provided.
Day shift: 08:30–17:30; two days off per week (public holidays off).
Telephone interviews or actual client visits are required. You must have your own vehicle (scooter or car); fuel expenses are not subsidized.
Makes it easy for you to get a loan from the bank here
Because Chung Hsing Security is a publicly listed company
The banks consider it the most stable type of job
They’ll let you borrow money—borrow as much as you can
The monthly base salary sounds just so-so
But you only get 20% of the bonus from each case
You’ll be rolling your eyes so hard they’ll reach the top of your head
You clock in at 8:30 a.m., but in reality you have to arrive at the company at 8:00
You walk over to clock in at 8:30; you finish work at 5:30 p.m., but in reality they make you stay until 7:00, and at 5:30 you walk over to clock out,
If the team’s performance isn’t good, they’ll tell you to come to work on Saturdays and Sundays
And they won’t even calculate overtime pay—amazing!
Sometimes they’ll even force you to attend gatherings on Saturdays and Sundays
Anyway, the company’s internal systems are a complete mess,
After joining this company, I haven’t learned much of anything
The supervisor even negotiates your case prices lower and lower
I’ve never seen anything so bizarre,
You don’t make any money; instead, you lose all your own savings
It’s really enough to make you shake your head!
A company full of gossip—coworkers in the same branch are your enemies
Your coworkers will gossip about everything concerning you
(Friendly advice: If you’re kind-hearted and straightforward and don’t play mind games, whatever you do, don’t join this company. It’s dark and evil!)
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Interview for a test engineer position (Datong District)
After completing the test and paperwork,
the office phone I was told to call was broken.
An administrative staff member came over and said the supervisor was unavailable today.
They said to wait for notification to schedule another interview—extremely unprofessional.
Even if they needed to collect information, this wasn’t the way to do it!
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Poor-quality HR. I called to ask about the salary structure, and they said it was divided into a base salary and bonuses. When I asked how much the base salary was, they told me to come on-site to hear about it. I simply said that we should be open and honest and not waste each other’s time. This HR guy said, “Oh, then thank you,” blah blah blah. Why couldn’t he just say what the base salary actually was? Really, luring people to the site only makes them even angrier, okay!
I got so angry listening to him talk nonsense that I hung up on him immediately!
It’s still a fairly large company, so it sounds better when you tell people where you work.
I’m in sales. Basically, whether the job is bearable or not is 80% determined by the managers and section chiefs, with the remaining 20% being your coworkers. Sales staff have their own assigned projects, but the company still expects you to sell a bunch of products from other departments. They call it a way to earn a little extra, but just listening to them complain every week is exhausting. The products are so bad—why the hell force us to sell them? There are tons of alternatives outside that completely outperform them. Overtime every day, basically 11–12 hours minimum (mandatory). On weekends, we often have to inspect the market and take photos to show management. It’s a huge waste of time. They really love putting on a show. And somehow customer renewals don’t count as salespeople’s deals—they count as the company’s!!?? In simple terms, you just have to keep developing new customers over and over again. It’s fucking stupid.
I spent three years there. In terms of salary, it was fairly decent (monthly pay for private university graduates was approximately NT$35,000–42,000). However, graduates of private universities were all counted only as having a junior college education (a base salary of NT$13,700), while only national university graduates were considered to have a university degree (NT$16,500).
Other than the salary being fairly decent (in exchange for a huge amount of overtime pay), I really cannot recommend this job. (You can receive half of your base salary for each of the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays. The year-end bonus is usually three or 2.5 months of base salary, and the bonuses paid in July and August are also approximately NT$8,000–10,000.)
The scheduled working hours are 13 hours a day (they will only exceed that, never fall below it). Every day, you have to deal with all kinds of customer requests and promote various products that even you do not really understand or want to use (Unlimited+, AEDs, safes, travel itineraries from Fuhsing Travel, and Fuhsing airline tickets). Most absurdly, you are even asked to handle matters belonging to the Access Control Department (the system that opens doors and records entries when cards are swiped), as well as equipment from subsidiaries that you have never been trained on or even encountered. (When facing customers, at most you can say, “I’ll pass this on for you”; you cannot say that it is none of your business.) Then, when other departments slack off and refuse to make repairs, you will keep being sent to customers’ locations to kneel and beg.
If there is any collision or traffic ticket while driving or riding a motorcycle (provided by the company), you have to absorb all the costs yourself (for serious cases, you may also receive a demerit and be required to submit a report). The problem is that the urban area has many narrow alleys and a large number of illegally parked vehicles (including situations where you yourself are often forced to park illegally), so it is difficult to come out unscathed. The shift schedule is extremely rigid because the staffing is never complete. Some employees even have mixed morning and night shifts for several months (for example, an endless cycle of AABB, rest, AABB, rest, where A is the morning shift and B is the night shift). Supervisors have it even worse, as they also have to work shifts on weekdays and holidays. On typhoon days, you are basically going out to risk your life; the only company you will see is Taipower.
Basically, Chung Pao is a company where the leaders set a bad example, and the people below follow suit. This is especially obvious at the branch-office level! The frontline staff are the ones who work themselves to death while earning the least, whereas the managers above them can’t do anything and only know how to talk?! The workload keeps increasing, but staffing hasn’t increased accordingly. No wonder this company is always short-staffed…
I have been there for three years. In terms of salary, it is fairly decent (graduates of private universities earn approximately NT$35,000–42,000 per month). However, graduates of private universities are uniformly counted only as having a junior-college education (starting salary NT$13,700), while only graduates of national universities are counted as having a university education (NT$16,500). The official working hours are 13 hours a day (they will only exceed this, never fall below it). Every day consists of dealing with customers’ various demands and promoting all kinds of products that even you yourself do not really understand or want to use (Unlimited+, AEDs, safes, travel itineraries from Lion Travel, and TransAsia Airways tickets). Most outrageous of all, you are even expected to handle matters belonging to the access-control department (the system that opens doors and records card swipes) and equipment from subsidiaries that you have never been trained on or even encountered. (When facing customers, at most you can say, “I’ll pass that on for you”; you cannot say, “That’s not my problem.”) Then, when other departments slack off and refuse to make repairs, you will keep being sent to the customers to grovel.
If there are any scrapes, collisions, or traffic tickets while driving or riding the company-provided vehicles, you have to absorb all the costs yourself (serious cases may also result in demerits and written reports). The problem is that there are many narrow alleys and a lot of illegally parked vehicles in the urban areas (including the fact that you yourself are often forced to park illegally), so it is difficult to get through unscathed. The shift schedule is extremely rigid because the staffing is never complete. Some employees even have mixed day and night shifts for several months at a time (for example, an endless cycle of AABB-off-AABB-off, where A is a day shift and B is a night shift). Supervisors have it even worse, as they also have to work shifts on weekdays and holidays. During typhoons, you are simply sent out to risk your life; the only people you will see keeping you company are the Taiwan Power Company workers.
Other than the salary being fairly decent (in exchange for a huge amount of overtime), I really do not recommend this job. (You can receive half a month’s base salary each for the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival; the year-end bonus is usually three or 2.5 months of base salary, and the bonuses paid in July and August are approximately NT$8,000–10,000 as well.)
Last year, the company had this policy of flying with TransAsia Airways to help revive the airline. Everyone spent money collecting vouchers, but when it went under, we could only use them to buy trash like toilet paper and bread, along with those fucking disgusting New Year’s Eve meal sets from TransAsia’s catering division.
I’ve been at this company for almost five years. We’re constantly understaffed. Sometimes the schedule switches between morning and evening shifts, so it feels like spending the entire month adjusting to jet lag. The higher-ups basically just watch the people below fend for themselves. No matter what happens, it’s not their problem. They’ll never be the ones stuck covering shifts. Think twice before joining this company.
My friend stayed in the dormitory and even had their credit card fraudulently used by a colleague. Cleaning products left in the bathroom (a large bottle of facial cleanser, for example) were used up by the company’s freeloaders within half a month. On top of that, a bunch of those technical specialists and deputy section managers would smoke three-quarters of a pack of cigarettes in one evening, and even pressure him into buying lots of drinks and food without paying him back. This year, a deputy manager from southern Taiwan moved into the dormitory and kicked three people out of a four-person room simply because he was a manager. Two of them were forced out of the dormitory because there was no space left. Damn, the company is full of trashy bureaucratic dogs. Anyone planning to move into the dormitory should think twice.
At least thirteen hours of work
It’s none of your business
No overtime pay—pretty ridiculous
You have to pay for car washes yourself
Ridiculous as hell
If you’re looking for a challenge, come to ZhongX Security. You’ll have no dignity here.
All kinds of idiot customers fail to disarm the system before entering and require confirmation.
All kinds of idiots forget their keys and demand that we open the door for them; after work, they forget their keys and demand that we lock the door for them. (If you forgot your keys, please go home and figure it out yourself, okay?)
Overtime that wasn’t scheduled still has to be confirmed. (Sometimes I really feel like an idiot: if it wasn’t scheduled, that’s your problem. Why dispatch someone? Is it to confirm whether someone has worked so much overtime that they’re about to collapse?)
All kinds of large sites and schools. At three in the morning, I’m walking around a school just to find a door that has popped open.
The site can’t be armed just because one window wasn’t closed? (When I first arrived, the customer was extremely aggressive. I took her to the restroom to look at the window and ended up apologizing like a grandson.)
Tasks range from going to customers’ homes to feed cats, dogs, and fish, to killing cockroaches, catching mice, and killing spiders.
The company is great—the current customer-to-night-shift-staff ratio is 4:3,800.
Only four people are providing service, so we often spend the entire night running around.
Even when you’re halfway through a meal, the control center dispatches you.
The work never ends. (And this is only the night shift; there’s a pile of daytime handovers, plus you still have to respond to incidents.)
You have to ride around everywhere in the rain wearing a raincoat.
Don’t go out during a typhoon? Eat shit! During a typhoon, you’re expected to run until you drop—until you feel like submitting a resignation report.
The company keeps shouting that it’s short-staffed. No kidding. For NT$35,000 a month, you have to work yourself to death.
They make it sound great: “It’s only 12 hours.” But each shift drags on another half hour for handover, meetings, and wrapping up before clocking out.
That’s all I’ll say for today. There’s plenty more to rant about.
I’ll rant a little more.
The job also includes system maintenance, access control, surveillance cameras, safes, Yale locks, AEDs, POS systems, and so on......
A single security host can be divided into more than ten types. Although the parameters are largely similar, the systems differ considerably ...
When you leave the company, they deduct money for all sorts of things, including the cost of your equipment... several thousand dollars..........
The point is, you never even received the equipment in the first place. The pants and clothes weren't custom-made either, yet they still force you to pay for them—
and you still don't get anything. It's really outrageous.
Regardless of the department, the starting base salary is only around 14k–16k. It only reaches 24k or more after adding various allowances under other job titles.
The year-end bonus is 2.5 to 3 months, but because the basic monthly salary is low, even receiving a three-month year-end bonus is equivalent to only a 1.5-month bonus at other companies. Labor and health insurance are also reported at the minimum wage, which is extremely unfair to employees. The system is clock-in for work but responsibility-based after hours, and overtime pay is not calculated according to the Labor Standards Act.
Working on national holidays does not result in double pay either.
The birthday bonus is issued as vouchers for companies affiliated with the company, which are extremely impractical.
Promotion opportunities are extremely limited... Regardless of the department or position, cliques and factional struggles are severe.
The seniority system is extremely entrenched. Being late once results in one formal warning, deductions of 6% of the base salary, and so on... There are many unreasonable rules.
It is extremely exploitative.
Please think twice before joining!!!