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The company’s products are unstable, yet it sells many products that have not been fully developed. It tells internal staff that the products are stable, but when asked about the product specifications, no one has a clear understanding. Everything is decided by the boss. It has established a bunch of inexplicable policies, resulting in constant internal friction. The processes are complicated and blocked by numerous hurdles and documents, and the bonuses for every department are visible but impossible to receive.
You can leave work on time.
Sales staff are basically disposable—once they’ve been used, they’re discarded. Not a single person in the entire company, including the boss, truly understands the product specifications. Within a little over a month, nine people in the sales department, including the sales manager, resigned, leaving only two. The boss does not allow the sales team to go to the factory to discuss matters with the technical team. Within the company, some people have it very easy while others are extremely busy.
If you want to make a big leap to the next level, join the software/firmware R&D training. It’ll work you to death—just hold out as long as you can.
Previously, no software/firmware R&D employee lasted more than a year; last year, over 40 people left.
If you want to coast, join management. They have nothing to do every day, drive away the people who produce results, and have all been there forever~
The 1110408 announcement says the company was fined 20,000 for violating the Labor Standards Act. They hire a bunch of useless managers who understand nothing and have no ability; all they do is kiss the boss’s ass, while frontline employees work themselves to death so these people can reap the benefits.
Recently, every department’s junior supervisor has been required to attend meetings at 18:30, continuing to violate the Labor Standards Act. They don’t pay overtime or provide compensatory leave, and the HR staff in management are all accomplices. On top of that, every day they have nothing better to do than watch the surveillance cameras, making people feel afraid at work—as if this were a labor-reform camp~
1. There are daily stand-up meetings as well as weekly meetings, so issues can be reported immediately.
2. Outsourcing is used for coding. Engineers only need to write the system documentation -> outsource the work -> wait for testing.
3. There is afternoon tea every other Friday.
4. There is a snack cabinet that you can rummage through when you get cravings.
1. The product is actually a modified copy of a project developed in the past, repurposed as a product. It is highly coupled, and adding just one field can cause the entire function to
stop working. I once raised this with the RD department, but they only replied, "Create another table without changing the Table Schema at all."
This also means the outsourced team has to spend a lot of time studying it.
2. The underlying layer is controlled by RD, but in fact, only one self-taught engineer with insufficient skills is responsible for maintaining it. In addition, RD does not maintain some product components at all. If there is a problem with an underlying component, you can only fend for yourself.
3. The project schedule is extremely tight; more than thirty functions are expected to be completed within two weeks.
4. Because no deposit was paid when signing the contract with the outsourced team, and there was no early-completion bonus, the outsourced team's willingness to work is low. The coding quality is left to fate. In the worst-case scenario, the entire team at the outsourcing company may resign collectively, requiring us to renegotiate the project schedule with the new engineers hired by the outsourcing company.
The company claims to offer diverse development opportunities. Of course, this basically means the base salary allows you to do a variety of things. However, if you want to slack off for the rest of your life, it is quite suitable for getting by.
The welfare fund deductions exceed the upper limit stipulated by the Labor Standards Act (the company was reported and fined in the past). The company’s SOPs are fake; what you actually do depends on the boss’s mood. The company claims that everyone will use up all their annual leave within the deadline. Overtime pay is available, but you may not necessarily be able to apply for it. Any reimbursement must be approved by the general manager.