The colleagues are very nice
I was one of the former employees mentioned. After seeing such an excellent review, I figured I might as well add my two cents.
Salary:
Not the lowest, but not particularly high either.
The company doesn’t like hiring experienced people because then they can offer lower salaries.
Personnel:
At the time, I met a part-time worker who had been there longer than I had (could they be the person mentioned below?).
From chatting with them, I learned that this company had replaced 11 full-time employees within one year, not including part-time workers.
The colleagues and managers weren’t necessarily bad; the ones I encountered at the time were all quite easy to get along with.
That’s because the company’s main problem was the boss, not the colleagues or managers.
The boss used to be a manager at a large company. You really couldn’t say he was familiar with this field.
What he was most familiar with was making reports, because that was what he did at his previous company.
Most of what else he knew came from asking some senior marketing friends.
The boss wanted everyone to be very engaged, so there were occasional group dinners.
However, because the boss’s mood was unpredictable,
it was common for him to be talking to you one moment and then harshly berating you the next.
So even at group dinners, everyone felt awkward and could only lower their heads and keep eating.
Meetings were even worse: everyone took turns being publicly criticized.
At the time, the manager was criticized so harshly that I almost wanted to cry for them.
Overtime was normal; working yourself to death was normal too. Don’t worry if you work until you quit—you won’t be the first or the last.
I started working overtime on my very first day. Working until midnight or 1 a.m. was common.
The boss would only think that everyone was busying themselves pointlessly and didn’t know how to use their time intelligently, and that improving efficiency would let them leave earlier.
If you want to see how badly people can be worked in Taiwan, come take a look.
If you want to learn something, you won’t learn it here.
Part-time workers are easily assigned multiple roles. The boss has a mindset of, “I’m giving you an opportunity to learn by asking you to do this.”
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The interviewer was extremely defensive; simply asking about the company's division of responsibilities almost made them angry, haha.
The company website makes it look like they offer many services, but in reality, they only do social media marketing and word-of-mouth marketing.
Also, the company has pitifully few employees, the base salary is low, and the atmosphere in the office is very strange.
The colleagues are very nice
1. Overtime is not allowed: work after 6:30 p.m. is unpaid, but the work is often impossible to finish, and I never left work on time during my employment.
2. At the time, I was paid the minimum hourly wage to do photo retouching and graphic design work (which differed from the duties of the position I had applied for). The boss knew nothing about design but had plenty of opinions, did not respect professional expertise, and often made wild suggestions. When discussing photo retouching with employees, the boss would even reach directly across an employee’s head (with the employee sitting and the boss standing).
3. Although I was a part-time worker, my workload was just as large as that of a full-time employee (and even greater than that of the full-time administrative staff). Part-time workers were told that this was a rare opportunity to learn, but in reality it was exploitation. Some people even had to go home after work to continue doing unfinished tasks (and the work done at home was unpaid).
4. The boss was very demanding about all employees writing daily and weekly work reports, but frequently changed the formats—twice in one week at one point—and required all previous daily and weekly reports to be reformatted as well. The daily reports were not carefully read, and the files attached to the forms were never reviewed (as could be seen from the questions in the replies). The standards were inconsistent: sometimes the boss would suddenly lash out over a particular issue, while the same thing happening in the past had received no reaction.
5. The boss would open a snack, eat one piece, and then throw the rest to an employee, telling them to finish it.
6. Various unusual ways of asking people to resign, or harassment after they had resigned.
7. The boss did not understand social media (and would ask for or demand some very wild things), yet ran a digital marketing company.
8. The boss’s mood was unpredictable and they would occasionally lash out without warning or add new rules (about meetings, adjustments to work duties, and so on).