Synology_群暉科技股份有限公司

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They found someone with only a little over three years of work experience to serve as the interviewer. They couldn't even explain the JD clearly, and throughout the entire process, I had no idea what they were interviewing me for. Is the company really that short-staffed? Someone with only a few years of work experience can interview others? If you don't actually want to hire someone, you really don't need to send a colleague to have a random chat with the candidate. We're busy too, and we still have interviews with several other companies to attend.

1. Free breakfast/dinner every day (breakfast is available in limited quantities; everyone can apply for dinner)

2. Afternoon tea snacks every day

1. The salary is not as good as rumored. Taking my experience in the design department as an example: a guaranteed 13 months of pay + 0.5 month each for the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival + an annual variable bonus. You should be overjoyed if the total package reaches 15 months of pay in a year. If you hear the other party casually throwing around an extravagant annual salary figure during the interview, remember to stay calm and do the math. For example, if you join in the fourth quarter and they say the total package, including bonuses, can reach 18, 19, or 20 months of pay, you ultimately will not actually receive that amount because of the prorated calculation based on your start date; it will only be nominally impressive but empty in reality. Then, in the second year, it will be adjusted back down to around 14–15 months of pay in total.

2. Micromanagement and siloing. I won’t say more—observe for yourself which departments and positions are constantly hiring.

1. Synology labor-management meeting story

https://www.dcard.tw/f/tech_job/p/255960528

2. Think twice before applying to Synology, especially women

https://www.dcard.tw/f/tech_job/p/255954484

Everyone, savor this carefully; everything is left unsaid.

And now they’ve started censoring speech.

If you didn’t tell me, I’d think I was born in China~

Thank you for your imperial benevolence

1. An accounting error led to employees being overcharged; when the labor representative caught them, they stubbornly refused to admit it.

2. The greatest contributor to the declining birthrate in the office: taking parental leave or unpaid leave for even one day immediately reduces that quarter’s bonus to zero and also affects next year’s performance evaluation. Women who want to become mothers should think twice.

3. The bird that sticks its head out gets struck down. The labor representative’s work diary was required to be broken down to the hour, and the contents were subjected to all kinds of nitpicking. The overtime-pay claim submitted based on writing work logs has still not been processed to this day.

Thank you for your imperial benevolence

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A very arrogant company. I applied twice through 104 before and they didn’t even look at my applications. Luckily, the company I was ultimately hired by is far superior to this one.

HR and ADM are pretty good, but all the young and attractive people have left over the past year.

The news said there was a 20-month year-end bonus, but there really wasn't one. It should have said that only a select few people received it.

The benefits mentioned during the interview were gradually cut back one by one after I joined. Now there are no benefits at all.

Compared with other interviews, there was nothing particularly outstanding.

1. The interviewer was nearly 20 minutes late.

2. After hearing about the actual job responsibilities, they seemed slightly different from the description on the job bank website.

Came in for a PM interview; the PM interviewer was pretty nice and quite lovely.

But I actually didn’t apply for a PM position......

Anyway, since HR invited me, I decided to give it a try.

Of course, the questions asked during the interview were PM-related.

I asked HR why they had invited me to interview for a PM role, and she played dumb, saying, “Huh? Really?” Then there was no follow-up.

The HR team was very unprofessional; afterward, I didn’t even receive a thank-you letter.

I’ve interviewed with several large companies, and none of them were this rude.

The interviewers also seemed to have been found at the last minute just to conduct the interview.

In the middle of it, one interviewer even had to leave because they had another meeting.

The interview lasted three hours, and I spent more than 40 minutes waiting for people in a small meeting room.

Maybe HR just invited me in to pad their numbers. Sigh.

No wonder this company is always looking for PMs—they just keep cycling people through.

Came in to interview for a PM position; the PM interviewer was pretty nice and likable.

But I actually didn't apply for a PM position......

Anyway, since HR invited me, I decided to give it a try.

Of course, the questions asked during the interview were all about PM work.

When I asked HR why they had invited me to interview for a PM role, she also played dumb and said, “Huh? Really?” Then nothing more came of it.

HR was very unprofessional; afterward, they didn't even send a thank-you letter.

I've interviewed with several large companies, and none of them were this rude.

The impression I got was that several of the interviewers had been brought in at the last minute just to interview me.

In the middle of it, one interviewer even had to leave because they had another meeting.

The interview lasted three hours, and I spent more than 40 minutes waiting for people in a small meeting room.

Maybe HR just invited me to boost their performance numbers, sigh.

No wonder this company is always looking for PMs—it just keeps cycling people in and out.

1. Most of my colleagues are highly capable, and the people I’ve met have generally been very nice and willing to share. Personally, I feel that the work environment in my current team (among colleagues) is quite good, with people to learn from and discuss things with.

2. The company is near Taipei Main Station, which is very convenient.

3. Breakfast is provided two days a week, and there are usually drinks and cookies.

Overall, the experience is quite good, with no obvious drawbacks.

If I had to nitpick, the base salary is relatively low.

The interviewers were all quite friendly. Although people online say they are extremely tough, I didn’t find the questions particularly tricky; they were all basic computer science knowledge. Each round basically involved chatting about my résumé before solving problems. If you’ve practiced LeetCode easy/medium problems, you should be able to pass easily. The OS questions covered general concepts.

I don’t really like the office partitions between the company’s desks; they feel a bit rigid. The base salary is fairly average, and the annual compensation is bolstered by bonuses.

The position interviewed for was a web designer role.

The year-end bonus consists of many months’ salary, and the HR representative was friendly.

The interview consisted of three stages: the first was a casual conversation with HR; the second was conducted by a designer and an F2E; if there was a third stage, it should have been with the hiring manager.

The worst part of the experience was… the job description on 104 was very different from the actual job duties. HR repeatedly said that a candidate would only be contacted after the candidate’s résumé/portfolio had been reviewed by the manager. However, upon reaching the second stage, I found that there was a major discrepancy. I don’t know where the problem arose.

104 job description:

1. Collect and analyze requirements, and comprehensively plan the front-end/back-end architecture of websites.

2. Write functional specification documents and UI flows for the front end and back end, and create wireframes, mockups, and UI prototypes.

3. Plan website operation flows and ensure smooth use across different devices (computers/tablets/phones). This includes planning, implementation, and maintenance of front-end/back-end functions, processes, and user flows, etc.

4. Manage and maintain websites.

5. Collaborate with planners, UI/UX designers, engineers, and other relevant personnel to jointly execute projects.

→ In the end, the designer and F2E said that this job was simply maintaining the official website: putting the information about new products provided by the PM onto the official website and “thinking about how to present it so that users can understand it more easily.” There was no analysis, no prototyping, and no specification documents…

For this type of job, when reviewing the candidate list, the manager should only invite people whose experience with branding projects matches the desired style. If the words “official website maintenance” had been written in the posting, applicants would have known whether they should apply, instead of wasting their time for nothing… Without that clarification, I thought it involved designing the interface for NAS cloud-management features…

Before the interview, you will be given a list of questions to answer in English. Most of the answers can be found on the demo site. The last few are open-ended questions testing your concepts of handling customer complaints and troubleshooting network communication issues. Write down everything you can think of, list the situation completely, and organize it logically.

After passing that stage, HR will contact you to schedule an interview. There are three rounds in total. In the first round, you will be tested on terminology related to networking and storage functions (RAID, DLNA, DNS, DDNS… I’ve forgotten the rest), as well as English speaking, writing, and reading. An interviewer who is very fluent in English will talk with you (a handsome, muscular guy and a good-looking woman with short hair). I guess it should be fine as long as you can communicate in speaking, because I wasn’t very fluent but I think I managed to convey what I meant. For the reading portion, you read an article and then translate it from English into Chinese. If you pass, you move on to the second round. They will ask about your interests, your understanding of the products, your expectations for the job, and the content of your previous studies and work—mostly to confirm the details. They also introduce the working hours. It’s quite interesting, and sometimes you can work from home.

In the third round, the manager comes in to discuss the offer. As a fresh graduate, I would earn approximately NT$650,000 after completing one year. The manager said the company is still growing, and quite a few people who joined only a few years ago have already exceeded or come close to NT$1 million. Performance reviews are transparent and calculated systematically. As long as the company’s operations remain normal, the total compensation is generally around 20 months’ salary.