The assistant HR representative was very nice during the interview, and I felt respected throughout the entire process.
This violated “employment discrimination” principles. Due to my physical constitution and its relation to urticaria, I have a severe allergic reaction to alcohol.
After the manager found out, they immediately notified HR to interrupt the interview (the manager was not even willing to appear and explain).
This was extremely disrespectful to the job candidate~
Afterward, I emailed the “senior HR manager,” suggesting that this matter be stated in advance to avoid wasting both parties’ time.
There was absolutely no response or acknowledgment (this company was the one that proactively contacted me for an interview).
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On December 31, 2025, at the peak of Hung Kuo’s performance, Boss Tsao demanded that salary-increase limits be lowered and personnel management streamlined. The incompetent policy of limiting raises to either 250 or 500 shows no understanding of how difficult it is to recruit frontline workers, nor that the company’s starting salaries can no longer attract new hires, much less retain talent. The management, out of touch with reality, is making it extremely difficult for on-site supervisors to do their jobs.
The company is developing steadily
1. Management:
(1) There have been instances when the government announced a typhoon day off, yet employees were still required to report to work. Employees required to work had to take annual leave that day, causing their leave to be inexplicably deducted.
(2) If overtime exceeds the limit for certain reasons—for example, daytime training causes the night shift to finish later—the company states that overtime is not reported if it does not exceed 40 minutes. (Under the Labor Standards Act, overtime is calculated by the minute; if work ends 20 minutes late due to operational needs, the employee should be paid 20 minutes of overtime.)
(3) Employees are required to arrive early at the company to gather and do morning exercises. Afterward, they must recite motivational statements made by senior executives, yet no overtime pay is provided for arriving early. Currently, out of concern about being reported, the company has sent an email publicly stating that participation in the morning exercises is voluntary.
2. Some tasks have no standard procedures for reference and rely on experience.
3. The cost-cutting is extremely excessive. For example, the ballpoint pens provided start running out of ink after only a few days even when they have not been dropped. Almost no one uses the pens provided by the company.
4. The company allows customers' on-site personnel to make unreasonable demands regarding the products (for example, small holes in support rings). Countless products are discarded or reworked for bizarre reasons, consuming enormous amounts of manpower and cost, even though the products made by the company are better than those made by the customers themselves under such scrutiny. It is exhausting from morning to night, and sometimes you do not even know what you are doing.
There is a restaurant that provides plenty of food, so you can eat until you're full and gain weight.
The compensation payment for Indonesian foreign workers is as high as NT$80,000, while workers of other nationalities also require compensation payments of at least NT$50,000. Foreign workers' passports are confiscated. The working hours are long and the pace is fast. Basically, most frontline employees joined this company out of necessity or because of certain pressures. Otherwise, this company's culture is poor, there are many problems with management, and the supervisors are arrogant and conceited. Foreign workers now make up the majority of frontline operators. This is especially noticeable during holidays, when it is almost impossible to see any Taiwanese employees during gatherings.
1. The building at the Taichung plant looks quite new and is a very distinctive structure.
2. The HR staff and managers are very courteous.
3. The receptionist is very beautiful and pleasant to look at.
4. All three meals can be eaten in the employee cafeteria, and employees seem to only need to pay a little over 20 dollars. (Deducted directly from their salaries.)
5. Employees living in the dormitory only need to pay a monthly cleaning fee of 500 dollars.
1. You have to work shifts on weekends.
2. You have to work shifts during the Lunar New Year.
3. The starting salary for new employees is not particularly high.
1. Easy to take time off
2. If you perform normally, the work is stress-free. Since the company has trouble retaining employees, newcomers are treated kindly.
3. Stable salary. There were no unpaid leave arrangements due to the pandemic or international issues. With normal overtime, the annual salary is around 500,000–600,000.
1. Shift work, alternating between morning and evening shifts once a month
2. Long working hours; basically, you rely on overtime to make money
3. Very boring. You cannot use your phone, and there are many older employees who are difficult to chat with.
4. Limited benefits, although there are still some
5. The salary adjustment system depends on whether management likes you. If they do, you have a chance, but the increase is not much—usually around 500.
6. Acting as a substitute does not come with any additional allowance. Team leaders do not earn much more; they only receive a slightly higher year-end bonus, approximately twice that of a technician (still somewhat short of 100,000). The cost-performance ratio is very low.
7. The work-study/co-op student program is unfriendly. The work is the same as, or even more than, that of regular employees, but the pay is at the level of foreign workers.
8. Poor meals; I heard that someone was served food that had gone sour.
9. The equipment is old and frequently has problems.
10. There is no competitiveness. If you are promoted to engineer, it effectively becomes a pay cut because the working hours are different, resulting in nearly one fewer hour of overtime pay each day. Overall, the salary is not much higher. At the team-leader level, there are many more trivial and unpleasant tasks, while the only difference after promotion is a slightly higher year-end bonus. Therefore, this is an advantage for people who prefer to keep a low profile and quietly do their work, but a disadvantage for ambitious people.
1. Trade your life for money
2. They provide earplugs
1. It is already a 12-hour shift system under normal circumstances, and on holidays they force you to work overtime for another 2–3 days. The company uses a twice-monthly payroll system (you know what I mean, right?)
2. The boxed lunches are really hard to eat
3. This is a very backward company. Despite having so many products, it has no SOPs, operating procedures, or standards. All processes rely on practices passed down through generations, with no consistent standards. I also don’t know why they don’t consider going digital. If the old materials are no longer useful, they could consider deleting them.
The reports could also be digitized.....Previously, the company used computers or tablets for data entry and remote connections.
4. NG items should have NG standards and sample images! Don’t just rely on practices passed down through generations!
5. They are stingier than the Hakka. The bags are torn and worn out, and they are still not easy to replace (when they tear, you have to put tape over them). Even garbage-bin bags cannot be replaced just because they are dirty. The garbage bags are replaced only every 2–3 months (they get very dirty!).
6. The factory is very dirty, the dining area is also very dirty, and the restrooms are also very dirty.
7. Because there are so many products but no standards, everything relies on practices passed down from colleague to colleague. As a result, colleagues have little patience for training newcomers, which leads to high turnover (the products are very miscellaneous, and the maximum time colleagues will spend training you is one month).
Pros:
1. The work is relatively stable, but you have to rotate between day and night shifts. The night-shift allowance is NT$580 (you must work a full 12 hours, from 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m., to receive the full NT$580; if you leave early at 4:00 a.m., the allowance will be reduced to less than NT$400).
2. The company subsidizes NT$17 for meals, as it has for more than a decade. The regular meal and noodle dishes cost NT$45, of which you pay NT$28; there is also a special meal costing NT$70, for which the company likewise subsidizes NT$17. (During the pandemic, only regular boxed meals were provided; none of the other options were available.) So the dishes are probably similar to what was served at the former Chengkungling training center, given the current price level!!
3. The bonuses given at the three major festivals are not fixed; whether they are paid depends on the company's mood. They are approximately NT$800, up to NT$1,000 at most!!
4. The company's salaries depend on education and connections. At present, new employees' salaries are much better than before because increases in the minimum wage have driven them up and the company must comply with regulations. The usual salary calculation for a new employee is: base salary + perfect-attendance bonus + position allowance. This is what the company refers to as the salary.
5. The company currently has banners posted saying that salaries should range from NT$28,500 to NT$35,000, and the formula above can be applied! Here is an example for reference: many employees who have worked for ten- or twenty-plus years still fall far short of the NT$35,000 threshold in “salary” (even after applying the formula above)!!
6. The company has a fixed year-end bonus (but it is paid proportionally, and no formula is provided for determining this proportion).
There is also an annual salary adjustment (but this annual adjustment is likewise based on absolutely no established system).
7. Taking the points above together, because previous employees had lower salaries, those who have worked for seven or eight years, more than ten years, or even more than twenty years may earn about the same as, or even considerably less than, highly educated new employees hired today. So newly hired employees are really favored!!
8. The company is extremely frugal and is constantly cutting costs and saving manpower, so new employees must have a wide range of skills, good physical stamina, and intelligence!! You will be put on the job very quickly, but learning is really up to you—whether you are willing to observe and learn on your own—because everyone is very busy!!!
9. Every workplace has many things that may seem unfair. For example, you may work hard, take your responsibilities seriously, and even perform better than many other people, but if you do not have a good relationship with your supervisors, your salary may be much lower than that of many people whom you consider worse than you. So you should know your place and accept it!!!
10. In the early days, the company had employees fill out an opinion survey every year. In recent years, however, this survey has been discontinued. The company probably already knows what employees are thinking, so there is no need to ask. The company is truly very considerate of its employees!!
https://thaubing.gcaa.org.tw/facility/B23B0761
After being discovered and fined by the government for illegally discharging pollution into Taichung City, it began giving back to the local community to whitewash its image.
https://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20220302004491-260421?chdtv
1. There are many attractive women in the company, after all, quite a few are from the Taiwan External Trade Development Council.
2. The employee cafeteria’s special meals are tasty, after all, they are subsidized with money from the labor-management committee.
3. The company is large, making it suitable as a stepping stone.
4. There is JMall and Carrefour nearby.
1. Bureaucratic system; traditional industry.
2. Except for expatriate employees, the salaries are all “extremely” low.
3. When the company makes money, the boss invests it; when the company does not make money, everyone has to endure the difficult times together.
4. Even if some companies offer low monthly salaries, their bonuses during the three major festivals and year-end bonuses are still substantial. Hung Chuan is very kind: NT$800 for each of the three festivals—so generous! The year-end bonus depends on the supervisor’s mood.
5. There is nowhere to park.
6. Electricity use for air conditioning in the dormitory is restricted.
7. It is unclear how long it has been since the dormitory washing machines were cleaned. Once, I reported to General Affairs that the washing machine on the 7th floor was very dirty, and they told me to go wash my clothes on the 8th floor.
8. The products are extremely environmentally unfriendly, yet the company still pretends to be very environmentally friendly.
It seems there aren't any.
A very bureaucratic and environmentally unfriendly company. As if the workload weren't already heavy, we also have to write a bunch of weekly reports that no one will read. The work processes are barely digitized, with piles of paper-based procedures. Approval regulations even stipulate that only senior managers can use stamps. You can imagine how poor the work efficiency is. The company has no KPI system; young employees receive only meager bonuses, while only long-serving employees who demonstrate loyalty and never leave can receive increasingly higher monthly pay.
The employee I encountered in the elevator was very polite.
They scheduled a group of people to interview at the same time, and everyone had to take turns lining up and waiting for the interview. People who arrived after me were interviewed first. After waiting for about an hour and a half, I was told that the president had to attend a meeting, and that I should come back for the next round of interviews. The company probably did not want to conduct the interviews and deliberately wasted the applicants’ time. This is by far the most outrageous company I have ever encountered.
None; the interviewer showed extreme disrespect toward the job applicant.
The position I interviewed for was a business role at one of the company’s plants in Southeast Asia (I had no relevant work experience). I arrived at the agreed-upon interview time, but waited in the conference room for over an hour. During the wait, employees would occasionally come in to check on me (did they also think their manager was being ridiculous?). After the two great interviewers finally came in, one of them (A) immediately asked whether I had a local ID. I said no, that I only had Taiwanese nationality (I had written this on my résumé, so I assume they hadn’t read it). He immediately put on an expression that clearly said, “Oh, then there’s no need to continue.” Just as things became awkward, the other interviewer (B) spoke up: “It’s fine; they’ve come all this way, so let’s talk and see how it goes.” He then asked me to introduce myself. Before I had finished even half of my introduction, (B) interrupted me and said that there was a problem with my logic and communication skills, asking why I couldn’t just be brief. Then, after seeing that my résumé said I was proficient in English (even though the job posting did not require English), he asked me to introduce my military service experience in English. This time I kept it very short (how much can one really say about military service...?). Then his boss said he would give me five minutes, but I spoke for only two and a half, so I failed. He then began talking about how capable and logical his mainland Chinese subordinates were, and complained that he didn’t speak the local language; otherwise, he would really like to communicate with the local employees himself. At the end, he said, “We’ll give you another opportunity to interview next time. Would you like to come?”
The HR staff were quite polite.
Interviewed for a general ledger accountant position—first took a test, then had an HR interview, followed by an interview with the supervisor. It was only after the interview that they said Hung Kuo did not actually have an opening and was recruiting on behalf of a vendor because the vendor could not find anyone. This was not stated at all on 104. This approach was very inappropriate: it deceived job seekers and showed great disrespect toward them. It is unacceptable for a multinational company to behave this way.
Good aspects: The company is large, so its systems and policies are relatively well established, with fewer of the drawbacks commonly found in small companies. The boss is ambitious, establishing factories in Southeast Asia and even Africa, which provides opportunities for people willing to work hard abroad. The company is currently profitable, is willing to pay overtime, and its year-end bonus is considered OK for a traditional manufacturing company.
Less favorable aspects: The food is poor (the company is unwilling to increase the budget, so the meals prepared by the catering service can only be described as edible, not good); the company does not dismiss unsuitable employees (unsuitable employees in each unit are often retained because of their seniority rather than being laid off. This often results in every department having people who work hard but whose supervisors only assign them more work, with equal pay for unequal work, while those who slack off continue to do so); the R&D department is concerning (although this is a traditional manufacturing company, technology is always the primary battlefield in any industry. In this company, most R&D employees often leave work after 5:30 p.m. The R&D department currently relies on managers who still possess some technical expertise, but much of that expertise has not been passed down. The younger generation has a passive attitude toward work, lacks a sense of crisis, and simply gets by). The CEO has said that the R&D unit will be required to improve, but the results have not yet become apparent. Whether anything will change over the next 10 years remains to be seen.
For a traditional manufacturing company in central Taiwan, the compensation is considered quite good!