Work experience sharing
I have been with this company for more than a year and a half. During the interview, they did not explain in detail how the salary was calculated. Verbally, they said that for someone with no experience, who was not an architecture major, and who had just graduated (although I had already worked at a space-planning company for a year), the starting salary would be NT$30,000+, plus a bonus of NT$1,500–3,000, NT$1,000 at each of the three major holidays, and NT$500 as a birthday bonus.
In the end, the other allowances lasted only half a year before disappearing without a trace. I received the three-holiday bonus only twice and the birthday bonus once. The insured salary was actually only NT$28,800; the rest had to be added to reach NT$30,000, and labor and health insurance premiums were deducted again.
The labor and health insurance calculations were completely irregular—the insured salary was only NT$28,800.
In practice, deductions were made proportionally from my entire monthly salary. There was never an issue with the pay slips.
Regarding a raise after one year, three empty promises were made.
When I joined, the company's original projects were private residences. Later, through connections, it took on its first public-works project.
He had no experience but insisted on doing it, and fundamentally did not understand public works.
Whenever there was pressure from a project deadline, he would start using PUA tactics.
He would compare you with former employees who had resigned and lecture you about his past experience at Guo X Construction.
I sincerely do not recommend this company! Please do not join!!
This is a company without a clock-in system, and the boss even tries to make employees pay for software.
It was only narrowly spared from being reported to the Labor Bureau by a disgruntled employee.
He only wants secretary-type employees; in this environment, the pressure on employees will only become greater.
1. There is no overtime pay. He will tell you that you are under a managerial-exempt system, and if necessary, you must work unpaid on holidays as well.
2. Given the company's current staffing, working on public-works projects will exhaust you.
3. The company has no clock-in system and no attendance records.
4. When you first arrive in the morning, you have to water the beloved flowers and plants in the front and back yards. If they die, he will blame you.
5. At night, you have to close the company's curtains. If you do not close them properly, he will blame you, saying the company might be burglarized.
6. The boss is very neurotic and has a foul mouth. He would make offensive comments about my family without thinking.
7. In his view, paid annual leave does not exist. Although he will still approve it if you insist, you first have to endure his emotional blackmail. He believes that as a project designer, you should not ask for annual leave. Meanwhile, he loves bragging to others about traveling abroad to Hokkaido, Turkey, and Thailand with his elderly mother, leaving the employees to guard the empty office.
1. The office environment is good.
2. There are many architecture-related books available to read.
Other aspects of the company:
1. There is a scheduled end time, but every day you have to wait for the architect to say, “You can leave now,” before you can leave. The delay varies from approximately 30 minutes to an hour and a half.
2. The overall progress of projects is not clearly explained, so it is impossible to manage your own work; you can only draw according to one instruction at a time.
3. The architect speaks very sarcastically, often forgets what they have said, and tends to be hesitant and change their mind repeatedly.
4. There are no bonuses for the three major holidays and no overtime pay.
5. The work area is in the same office as the architect, and the architect rarely goes out.
6. There are surveillance cameras.
7. To avoid disturbing the architect, employees are asked not to chat or talk during working hours. The architect will get up and ask, “Is there a problem?”
8. The floors above the second floor are rental suites. When necessary, employees may have to go upstairs to clean, which may delay work progress.
9. The turnover rate is high.
10. Work procedures and drafting methods should follow the architect’s habits as closely as possible; the architect’s habits are considered the best and most efficient.
11. Compared with architectural projects, there are more interior-design projects.
All of the above are situations that occurred during my employment. I do not want to criticize the shortcomings; perhaps you who are reading this strongly agree with the architect, in which case there may not be any other issues. Unfortunately, my personal stress tolerance was too low for me to continue working with the company.