Pretty cool.
1. The salary is absolutely terrible. The stated salary is clearly over NT$5,000 less, and then they average in the year-end bonus and other bonuses to calculate the salary.
2. Looking at 面試趣, many people have worked there for a long time and still only earn a little over NT$30,000.
2. There aren't many benefits.
3. Previously, large numbers of employees often resigned. The company then asked current employees to sign a non-solicitation agreement prohibiting them from encouraging others to resign, with a penalty equivalent to 10 months' salary for violations—haha. I don't know how they define it. If you and your colleagues resign together, will they say that you induced them to leave?
Could a mass employee exodus possibly be the company's own problem?
4. Be careful with Taiwan-based managers.
About this company
On Thursday mornings, breakfast is available for NT$60 during maintenance.
Cookies and drinks are provided from time to time (but they are quickly snatched up).
Some free promotional items are occasionally available (but this only happens very, very rarely).
About the Java position
New engineers can come here to hone their skills, but without 3–5 years of experience, they are not allowed to come and train.
If you want to apply for the Development Engineer (Java) position, please refer to the following.
About the development team leader
His design concepts are very unconventional; he wants you to write all the code together in one place.
The three basic Java concepts he wrote about on the wiki are almost entirely incorrect.
He is not very familiar with Spring, but he expects the team members below him to "self-study" and share their knowledge with him.
He seems not to believe that Taiwanese people will stay for long, so he wants everything documented—even the things you learn on your own.
His mood is unpredictable, so if you do not have a good EQ, think twice.
There is a lot of room for improvement in his management. If you are willing to grow and improve together with him, you are welcome to apply for a position in this unit.
About this position
The programmer here needs to be on call. The main responsibility is to remotely reconnect to the platform server and turn it off and on when it goes down.
Things here are usually assigned out when deadlines are approaching.
There is no SA here, because you are both the programmer and the SA (with no change in pay).
The workload generally is not very heavy, but dealing with people is extremely troublesome (for the reasons mentioned above).
The code and pages here are difficult to maintain (for the reasons mentioned above).
You will be given many tasks (on-call duties or documentation). If they are unreasonable, they will say they want you to raise your concerns, but the result of raising them is that nothing changes.
A technical seminar must be held at the end of every month, but no outside instructor is invited; team members must share on their own, increasing the workload.
You have to act like an X at all times, otherwise you may be called into a meeting and reprimanded at any time.
You can watch the mistress and the parachuted-in troops put on a show at the company and toy with it.
The department asks for money but gets none; the benefits often look good but are out of reach. There’s an incompetent person at the top stirring things up everywhere, but what can you do? The boss’s little *—the money all goes to the boss and *3, and then a bunch of talent is lost.
No overnight shifts.
The HR department is extremely unprofessional. Originally, a friend who worked there wanted to refer me for a position. After the first interview, the interviewing supervisor said that the boss was unavailable and that they would contact me later to arrange a second interview. However, I ended up waiting for several months. After some time, I called to follow up, but the phone number provided by HR through 104 was actually the number of another company. I only found out the correct number after asking my friend. When HR finally answered the phone, they were not polite at all and had a very unpleasant tone.
After finally receiving an update, HR contacted me through my friend instead of calling me or sending a message through 104. They also asked me to resend my résumé. Had they been unable to find the one I had already sent? Never mind—I sent it again. In the end, they neither read it nor replied. With HR like this, think carefully before joining the company.