翔鑫堡工業股份有限公司

The advantages are that salaries are paid on time, and employees assigned overseas from Taiwan are covered by labor and health insurance.

A very old-fashioned and bureaucratic company, with a corporate culture where many people talk about getting things done but few actually do the work, and where there are more officials than soldiers. Production management is controlled by second- and third-rate mainland Chinese managers, development is controlled by Malaysian executives, and operations consist largely of a group of longtime Xiangxinbao employees who talk about continuous improvement but take no real action. The company's ranking within the adidas system is steadily declining. Whenever there is a problem, they blame the brand or the supplier, or find a new employee to take responsibility. As an employee, I am very worried about this company's future. If you suggest improvements, you will be collectively attacked by the longtime Xiangxinbao employees, so it is better not to say anything—just collect your full salary.

Traditional industry

Spent nearly three hours completing a personality test and a professional assessment that had nothing to do with the interview results. Ultimately, it mainly came down to whether the interviewing manager liked you. The résumé was practically an investigation into your personal background; if you left something out, HR would keep asking: how many family members you have, what they do for work, how old they are…

The position was for an information engineer, but the internal work was almost entirely governed by personal relationships. In other words, if you had a good relationship with the manager from the requesting department, you might not have to write the system at all; if you had a bad relationship, you would be made to write and revise it endlessly. It felt like they weren’t looking for an information engineer, but a salesperson.