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The boss at this company is extremely moody and is the type to lose emotional control. In addition, employees are often ordered to do things that clearly fall outside their job responsibilities. They constantly demand that employees manage upward, yet have no respect for professional expertise whatsoever. The internal management also always feels chaotic, with policies changing from morning to evening, and the turnover rate is high.
If you want to experience life, you can go.
I left around the end of September. The only good thing about the company is that it is close to an MRT station; otherwise, there is nothing particularly good about it.
The boss is two-faced: he smiles at you in the morning, then fires you in the afternoon. Even if you keep up with the project schedule, you may still be dismissed without warning. The boss himself has no idea what is happening with the projects and does not understand the engineers. He asks backend developers to write frontend code. Anyone looking for stable employment should absolutely not come to this company. Although the colleagues are very nice, the boss is frightening and speaks to people in a very insulting manner. I am writing this because I do not want anyone else to have the same experience as me... Anyone considering joining should think twice....
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The way they spoke during the interview was extremely insulting and very disrespectful.
They went on about how amazing and capable they were.
They were really just looking to hire someone willing to accept minimum wage.
Please, don’t harm other people, okay?
Don’t waste people’s time by inviting them to an interview!
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A company that fires shots randomly; they don’t even know which candidate they’re interviewing. They emphasize that every job is very stable—really stable!!
A memory like a fish, with absolutely no level of competence
What’s your zodiac sign?
How old are your parents, and what do they do for a living?
When do you expect to get married? Would you want to have children?
They should be asking about professional abilities, not wasting time every day recruiting for this crappy position
Staffing company
Now renamed Shengsen Cloud Co., Ltd.; HR keeps manipulating the reviews.
As soon as you join the company, they expect you to become familiar with all the processes. On the second day, they already threaten that if you are not familiar with everything within a week, they will ask you to leave. The earlier reviews were accurate: the internal procedures and division of responsibilities are extremely chaotic. It is unclear what position they are actually interviewing you for; only after arriving at the assigned workplace do you find out that one person is expected to handle PM, PG, SA, and SD duties all together.
The reason you have to bring your own laptop is that projects do not last very long, so the staffing company will not provide one. From what I heard, you can tell how alarming it is that the staffing contractor takes on projects this way. There are few benefits or protections, and no project lasts very long.
The so-called supervisors have no professionalism at all. When asked more technical questions, they have to look into them themselves or ask other colleagues. As for those higher up, there is no need to say more—whatever you ask, they know nothing about it.
The turnover rate is even worse: it is not surprising for an average of two or three people to leave each month. When someone who has been there longer than half a month resigns, they say that person does not know how to appreciate the opportunity or lacks sufficient professionalism to meet the supervisor’s requirements.
Overall, the impression is simply terrible. Can’t we just part on good terms?
The second-round interview invitation came very quickly (the day after the first-round interview).
1. Applicants are asked to complete two personality tests before the interview, but the tests have low discriminatory power. Later, when I asked during the interview how the personality tests were used and to what extent they were taken into consideration, the interviewer said that they also thought the tests were useless and had no reference value (then why make applicants waste time filling them out???).
2. The online interview started late. I proactively called the contact person, and both the contact person and the interviewer said they had been so busy that they forgot. After joining the call, the interviewer did not turn on the camera and gave no particular explanation. I felt disrespected.
3. The interviewer had been given the wrong résumé (I was interviewing for a position in a management unit, but the interviewer said the résumé they had contained experience and background related to engineering positions). The internal processes were chaotic.
4. The interview questions were extremely unfocused, and the interviewer also did not seem to understand the expertise required for the position.
5. There was another management position listed on 104 at the same time (I applied for a regular position), but throughout the interview, the interviewer discussed the job duties of the management position with me, seemingly unable to figure out which position I had applied for.
6. Sometimes two different contacts would send me almost identical emails at the same time.
Overall, I felt that many of the internal processes and divisions of responsibility were extremely chaotic and unprofessional. They could not even figure out which position they were interviewing me for, and they also lacked a basic sense of punctuality. A total nightmare!
For a period of time, I was able to work from home. The colleagues I encountered were all great and easy to get along with.
These are the things I encountered at the company:
My salary was paid incorrectly, and the insured salary bracket for labor insurance was also incorrect.
Some colleagues who joined around the same time were not enrolled in labor insurance during their first one to two months.
Last Chinese New Year, engineers were allowed to work overtime to rush projects and earn extra money, with a promise that the payment would be made in full at once.
Later, the payments were made in installments, and when I left the company, more than NT$8,000 was still unpaid. What was that about?
Maybe I would only feel that there was a problem with the company if something like this happened to me.
I heard that the supervisor of our group of engineers also resigned. I think I probably won't be able to get the money either.
Also, on my last day, I checked the boxes for requesting a withholding statement and other documents on the resignation form.
In the end, I was only given a certificate of resignation. I don't know whether that's normal.
This is just what I saw and experienced personally at this company. I'm sharing it for reference.
There are many courses available every month, and you can get to know engineers from other projects.
There are often group dining events, and when working on projects at the head office, you are often given snacks as well.
I am an on-site engineer, not an outsourced worker. The company employs me full-time, and my labor and health insurance contributions are not underreported.
The people working in the company’s internal office are also very nice and attractive.
Everyone I have encountered has been very considerate.
The new cafeteria downstairs is always very crowded. You can go buy food earlier, but you still have to squeeze in with the students.
Don't know
At first, I applied to this company.
Their HR wanted me to participate in the Build School training program organized in collaboration with 聖森.
In the final interview, just as I mentioned in my previous post, they made fun of a former employee.
(Previously, a classmate went to work there as a programming intern, but was ultimately assigned to customer service.)
Then they mocked that classmate, saying that she would have a hard time finding a job.
She was an intern precisely because she was a beginner.
They didn't give her the opportunity to be assigned to customer service, and then laughed at her for having difficulty finding a job.
Finally, they told me that their positions were highly competitive, and that if I wanted to squeeze into this round of applications, I needed to submit one LeetCode problem solution every day.
So I foolishly kept doing it. The results had already been released and they were already collecting fees, while I was still stupidly submitting solutions.
The worst part was that whenever I submitted one, they would reply,
"Keep working hard and加油."
They had absolutely no intention of telling me that I hadn't been accepted.
A company that disrespects people and wastes their time.
The office is quite beautiful.
I heard it is an affiliated company of a publicly listed corporation.
This company has been offering long-term courses at National Taipei University of Technology, which is quite appealing. It also allows people who do not work for the company to attend and share information. Many companies do not place much emphasis on talent development, so this point appealed to me.
After all, it is a vendor-side company, so it is pretty good for practicing various project development skills (at least in my opinion).
I feel that they have put thought into it, but it could still be a little better.
Small-scale, and the supervisors and colleagues are all quite nice.
It is an on-site assignment type of job, so the work environment is difficult to control. If you can no longer stay at the client site where you are assigned, you can only leave—you have no choice.
Claimed to be very generous with pay, but only that one time during the interview.
A company with very poor fundamentals and systems.
When facing customer inquiries, they almost always temporarily pull someone in to make up the numbers and keep up appearances.
It also happens that the actual job responsibilities differ from what was described in the interview (of course, they expect upward compatibility -.-)
The best time to negotiate salary at this company is at the initial interview.
Because the person conducting the interview may also have been temporarily pulled in to keep up appearances and may not understand things very well,
and because they urgently need people,
they are relatively more willing to offer better pay (because if they don't, they won't be able to find anyone and the position will be left unfilled).
The boss really likes to talk about money, money, money, share how good they are at making money and investing, and say that the company is very generous with pay.
But in reality, they are reluctant to spend even small amounts of money. How can anyone believe that they are really generous????
But after joining, it is very likely to be endless upward compatibility, and they absolutely refuse to give raises.
Several generous conditions mentioned during the interview all fell through:
1. The company has no clock-in system and flexible working hours → In reality, the end of the workday is pushed very late. Even if you start work late because you left late, you may still be required to submit one or two hours of leave (they sounded lavish during the interview, but in reality they nickel-and-dime everything).
2. Comprehensive training → In reality, for several months after joining, there was no time for training because they were rushing projects, including project training.
3. Unlimited supply of cookies and snacks → In reality, they only bring out some cookies from the Ghost Festival offerings in July to make up the numbers; at other times, bring your own snacks.
A very petty and narrow-minded company.
Because the company is reluctant to spend money, it tries its best to make employees use their own resources.
The supervisor also likes to use workplace influence to get employees to support them privately.
For example, if they want to take on a project in a certain industry and know that an employee has previously worked in that industry, they keep hinting that the employee should help make connections and bring in projects, putting it nicely as “internal entrepreneurship.”
For example, they encourage employees to go around saying good things about the company and leaving positive reviews (but if it really were a good company, this wouldn't need to be hinted at, would it? -.-)
The work environment is friendly, and people interact warmly with one another.
Most importantly, the salary is sufficient.
The training is also very comprehensive, making it a good place for people who want to advance.
Although the benefits package cannot compare with those of large companies, the salary is sufficient and feels more practical.
Laptops are generally not subsidized. If you need one, you may have to request to borrow one or submit an application; most people primarily purchase their own.
The main business model is dispatch-based employment.
The branch office in Nangang Software Park is somewhat messy and unclean, but otherwise everything is very good.
I joined Shengsen last year. Although the company mainly focuses on on-site assignments (with Kaohsiung as a project location), the overall company culture is open, the atmosphere is lively, and the boss is very approachable. He often visits on-site companies with the business team to check in on the on-site engineers.
Compared with other on-site staffing companies, Shengsen offers good salaries and many types of subsidies (for childbirth, marriage, etc.).
The company’s on-site business projects are steadily growing, so engineers do not feel unstable. You can also propose a request to change assignments yourself (young people who want to quickly build up their skills may want to consider this company), and the company also actively promotes internal training.
This year, the grand prize at the company’s year-end banquet was a Gogoro, and everyone received a participation prize. Compared with other staffing agencies or small and medium-sized enterprises, I think the company offers very good benefits, and its development and goals are clear.
It is a company worth joining.
As an on-site staffing company, the HR interview and technical interview cannot easily be completed on the same day.
The salary level is fairly good for southern Taiwan (but salary isn’t everything; more on that below).
This company is hilarious. Recently, I discovered that during interviews, someone was badmouthing those of us who had left the company. I had originally decided that we should part on good terms, but apparently everyone wants to play their cards—so let’s throw them all on the table!
After I resigned for various reasons, the manager was still choking back tears, saying that he hoped we would all remain friends and that we should part on good terms—various pieces of nonsense like that. Yet it turns out he was stabbing people in the back. Does he not know that this industry is small and that people will find out immediately when you stab someone in the back? I’m dying of laughter! And the most ridiculous part is that he was badmouthing people during the “interview process,” while making small talk. What on earth was the point of bringing this up in an interview? I really don’t understand!
Below are my personal experiences at this company:
● The salary does not reflect the workload
The salary and position agreed upon during the interview were for a “programmer.” Then, on the very first day of work, I was told to take on the roles of both PM and SA. This isn’t about saying that, once you enter the workforce, you shouldn’t expect to be asked to do extra work; the problem is that these responsibilities were “not mentioned at all” during the interview. At the time, I was told that all the requirements had already been discussed and that I would only need to go in and code, so they offered a programmer’s salary. Later, I discovered that the requirements had not been discussed at all. After bringing in a programmer, they simply expected that person to shoulder everything.
The worst part was that, after I raised the issue, they tried to brush it off by saying, “Ah, haha, I didn’t know these things required someone with professional expertise to handle them. I thought it would be fine to combine the roles.” I’m asking you for money! Money!! Money!!! Otherwise, what do you think I’m working for? To have a heart-to-heart with you? Also, right after giving me a verbal offer—before even signing a contract—they told me to attend a meeting with a client. At the time, I wanted to make a good impression on my new employer, so I gritted my teeth and went. Looking back, I was such an idiot!
● Poor integrity
Basically, this company sells manpower by assigning people to work onsite. Previously, we were told that the manpower we had sold to a certain client would only be provided until a specific date. After the deadline, we were supposed to package up the code, hand it over to the client, and at most answer questions by email. So, after the deadline, I immediately moved on to another development project to make up for the staffing shortage. In fact, several people had also left that client, and it seemed they couldn’t find anyone to take over. They started making a huge fuss, and afterward I was required to continue handling work that was no longer supposed to be part of my assignment. In other words, I ended up juggling two projects at once.
My takeaway from this is that I’m not an inexperienced rookie—I’ve been in the workforce for a long time, and I understand that a complete handover is impossible and that the process will inevitably be dragged out and cost time. I completely understand that. However, the company spoke with such confidence, acting as if I wouldn’t need to deal with it anymore. Employees aren’t things you can handle however you please, okay? There was no need to make such absolute promises at the beginning. Constantly going back on them later only makes you look foolish and ridiculous.
● Very poor adaptability
During my time there, I noticed various problems. Whether involving people or projects, I found issues that would seriously harm the project’s future development. Being the meddlesome type, I reported them, and everyone even gathered to discuss them, but there was no noticeable improvement—not even the slightest! After this happened N times, I was truly disheartened and gave up. I closed the door on communication and focused on doing my own work, no longer saying anything. Then I was criticized for wearing headphones and not chatting as soon as I joined the company, supposedly making the office atmosphere gloomy and oppressive... I’m honestly speechless. If that’s the case, then just tell me directly what I should do. When I talk too much, nothing happens; when I talk less, that’s not acceptable either...
● The company’s systems feel very disorganized
Although this is a new company, it has been established for some time. It felt like everything was chaotic before every payday. The funniest part was that they even miscalculated salaries. Luckily, I calculated mine myself and discovered the discrepancy. In that case, it’s reasonable to suspect that many engineers simply receive their payslips and accept them without checking, not knowing whether the amounts are correct. Could that mean there are payments they should have received but did not?
Also, two months after I resigned, I received a notice from the National Health Insurance Administration demanding payment of health insurance premiums. That was when I discovered that, during my employment, my child’s premiums had never been added to my account, even though I had submitted my child’s information on the day I signed the contract. In the end, I had to call the company myself and ask them to provide the missing information to the National Health Insurance Administration. I only worked there for a few months, yet I encountered two fairly serious administrative errors. It’s hard for me to believe that I was merely an isolated case.
Finally, I want to emphasize once again that my original attitude was simply: if I leave, I leave. At most, we would never have anything to do with each other again, and I would have dealt with matters such as the health insurance premiums myself. However, the ridiculous behavior of saying “let’s part on good terms” in public while repeatedly stabbing former employees in the back behind the scenes is what prompted me to write this account of my experience (you could also call it a horror story). That said, objectively speaking, the salary level is fairly good in southern Taiwan. If none of the above bothers you, you could give it a try!
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An extremely small staffing agency. The boss only thinks about how to cut your pay, and the systems are incredibly chaotic. I sincerely recommend that even if you have no choice but to work through a staffing agency, find a better one. Stay far away from this kind of one-person company.