The work environment is good
Each department is like a small startup, lacking organization and systems, with a chaotic and disorganized work pace
Employees are expected to give 100% effort, yet they are not given an equal level of support
Remote interviews are available
The interview process takes over a month, with approximately 7–8 or more interviews and discussions in total, and the interviews do not start on time.
For overseas assignments, you are hired locally, and there is no return flight home, no home leave, no labor or health insurance, and no accommodation provided. You are also responsible for the taxes at the overseas assignment location.
Also, you are responsible for the airfare to the overseas assignment location.
1. Beautiful company environment
2. Free lunch, afternoon tea, coffee machine, and snack cabinet
3. Good salary
1. The job position is unclear, and HR will not explain the job responsibilities to you in detail. There is a very good chance they do not know themselves.
2. Each business unit is like a small startup, yet they give you very little time. If the person in charge cannot find a way to produce results quickly, you can expect to suffer the consequences together.
3. They start laying people off around the end of each year, causing the next person who comes in to take on even more firefighting work. If they cannot finish it, they replace that person again the following year—a vicious cycle.
4. The managers all try to appear very Westernized, with two out of every three sentences in English, but their management style still exploits employees in the typical Taiwanese way.
5. Unless you are one of Chairman Chang’s favorites, you constantly have to worry about being called into HR’s little black room. The pressure is enormous, and you will not want to stay here for very long.
Includes lunch, with occasional afternoon tea and activities
New employees are forced to go to the Ruifang warehouse on 11/11 to work two consecutive overnight shifts. You work from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., and you are not allowed to sleep during that period.
You sleep the following morning and continue working the overnight shift at 7 p.m. that evening, for two consecutive days. It is exhausting and does nothing to help your professional development.
If you do not have the money, want to save money, or are too lazy to find someone else, you have no choice but to go there from Neihu.
Every Friday, employees are randomly and compulsorily required to listen to someone from outside hired by the company ramble, or to listen to the company’s own employees ramble.
The point is that you cannot refuse, and you cannot take your lunch break during lunchtime. Haha.
New employees are pressured every day to show progress, and after roughly less than two months, you will start being asked to assist with the company’s work.
If you do not do well, they will make sarcastic remarks. Supervisors basically act like friends and joke around; people they are familiar with can act foolishly without any problem,
while people they are not familiar with are humiliated as much as possible.
One department with many new employees is very demanding and does not know how to train newcomers. Not long after joining, new employees may already be expected to take over work and get up to speed.
Also, the boss is very arrogant. Thinking that he is an ABC and has Cathay backing him, he speaks and acts in a fairly disrespectful manner.
The exterior is packaged very well, and the interior design and atmosphere of the building are beautifully crafted.
In one word: a huge scam.
There are no advantages.
After joining, you will receive a box of beautifully designed company promotional materials and business cards.
Every new employee in the office who has been with the company for less than a year must go to the warehouse on Singles' Day to help with shipping and learn about the company's processes. It is euphemistically called training, but in fact it only makes you labor physically and involves no technical content.
Every December, there is a company employee bowling tournament with teams assigned randomly. You and your teammates are all randomly selected from across the company, so it is nothing but awkward.
Every December, there is also a gift exchange. More than one hundred people are randomly paired, with a self-funded budget of NT$500 for the gift. You basically will not know the person you are supposed to give a gift to, and will only meet them face-to-face on the day of the gift exchange.
Every year in mid-December, several senior colleagues leave without warning. I recommend not coming here and contributing to workplace bullying.
Free lunch; a relaxed work environment
The pay is very low, and there is basically no system for raises or promotions. HR, which gets paid without doing much, needs improvement.
There are many people, but the organization is extremely chaotic. Responsibilities are unclear, team communication is time-consuming and difficult, and managers make decisions recklessly, leaving everyone to constantly put out fires afterward and become mentally and physically exhausted.
One person is made to do the work of three, only to be nitpicked and criticized afterward.
If you expect an annual salary of over 700,000, basically don't come to the interview—it would be a waste of time.
Free lunch, flexible work environment
The pay is very low, and there is basically no system for raises or promotions. HR employees collect their salaries without contributing much and need improvement.
There are many people, but the organization is extremely chaotic. Responsibilities are unclear, team communication is time-consuming and difficult, and managers make decisions recklessly, leaving everyone to constantly put out fires and becoming mentally and physically exhausted.
One person is expected to do the work of three, and then gets nitpicked and criticized afterward.
If you expect an annual salary above 700,000, basically don't bother coming to the interview—it would be a waste of time.
Quick and concise… (because the atmosphere was really awkward
Did not proactively introduce what the company does…
Did not proactively explain what the position would be responsible for in the future… (the key point is that it was not written on 104 either)
Even when I asked, they only answered that I would be placed in whichever team within the department had an opening…
However, the Information Department's work is divided into external (external e-commerce) and internal (smart warehousing) functions,
so I still did not know where this position would be assigned…
After learning that I was changing fields, they did not know how to ask me questions…
They only kept asking me, “Is there anything else you would like to ask?”
Speechless
Your abilities are recognized by HR, and the company's budget is adequate.
I interviewed for an engineering position. The job posting stated an annual salary of NT$750,000–950,000. The company actually has the budget, but the manager is only willing to offer NT$800,000.
After evaluating the situation, I believe this is because the manager lacks the ability to lead senior engineers. Therefore, I recommend that those seeking an annual salary above NT$800,000 not come for an interview, because even if you do, you will only be treated as a free consultant and end up wasting your time.