華藝數位股份有限公司

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I once went for an interview. The interviewer had an attitude, acting like, “You don’t understand anyway; even if I explain it, you won’t know. Why the hell are you asking?” whenever I asked questions.

The work is very simple, and you can get started without spending too much time learning.

The salary is very low. After labor and health insurance deductions, the take-home pay is not even up to the statutory monthly minimum wage. The company has also stated that there will be no salary increases unless the pay becomes so low that it violates the Labor Standards Act, at which point it will be raised.

The supervisor has no patience and acts according to their mood. If the supervisor is in a bad mood, they may harshly scold employees, even when they have done nothing wrong, and pressure them to admit fault. The same question cannot be brought up a second time; if you ask the supervisor again, they will appear extremely impatient and exasperated. Sometimes they may tell you one way of doing things, only to tell you a few days later that another way would be better, leaving you at a loss.

The coworkers also do not seem particularly ambitious. As the end of the workday approaches, you will see a group of people lining up to clock out. Some coworkers even start taking a nap after finishing their tasks and then continue sleeping... Yet the supervisor chooses to ignore it and pretends not to notice.

If you have no goals in life and only want a job to get by, this place might be suitable. But if you have goals in life, I recommend not coming here and wasting your time.

The work is quite simple and easy to learn.

After deductions for labor and health insurance, the salary is pitifully low. There are no salary increases. Personally, I don't think it's a job suitable for staying in long term. The supervisor likes to make decisions based on their mood. Overall... it follows the Labor Standards Act, but it's not a good job. If you have no goals in life, you can give it a try.

The office environment is fairly good.

The interviewer was an overweight person.

I don’t know what they were acting so cocky about; they kept trying to nitpick my wording.

But the questions they asked clearly showed their own ignorance and lack of professionalism.

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A friend with a master's degree from one of Taiwan's well-regarded national universities applied for a job and was openly criticized by the interviewer for having poor academic credentials. Naturally, they were not hired.

The interviewer was quite easy to talk to, and the conversation and Q&A did not feel stressful.

The salary seems quite low. The manager was very happy to talk about their own experiences, but glossed over the benefits, salary, raises, and so on. They only seriously pointed out that the salary would not be high when first joining.

The interviewer was quite easy to talk to, and the conversation and questions didn’t feel stressful.

The salary feels quite low. The manager was very happy to talk about their own experiences, but glossed over benefits, salary, raises, and so on. They only seriously emphasized that the salary would not be high when first joining.

I worked in Huayi's IT department; the following is limited to experience in the IT department.

1. Some relatively uncommon technologies are used.

2. Overtime is uncommon.

3. Some senior colleagues are highly capable. If you are proactive enough, you can learn quite a lot from them.

4. If work progress is not ideal, management is generally very accommodating.

1. Workloads are distributed unevenly, and this is a long-term, ongoing situation. Basically, it is a case of the more capable doing more. Although the workload for strong employees is not so heavy as to be unacceptable, the workload for weaker employees can be astonishingly light.

2. For newcomers, the overall training is extremely poor. Without sufficient ability to learn independently, it is basically very difficult to grow.

During my employment, I never saw regular code reviews, or code reviews for employees whose work performance was unsatisfactory. As a result, those with poor work capabilities were never able to take on a more normal workload.

3. There are many web-based systems. From my perspective as a web engineer, the company's IT department is decent on the backend, but the standard of web frontend work is really not very good. Although there are indeed some experts there, there are also weaker employees. The reasons for the low overall standard are complicated, so I will not elaborate; I am providing this only as a reference for engineers who want to focus on web frontend skills.

4. Salary is heavily influenced by the starting salary negotiated at the beginning, and annual raises are quite ordinary. At this company, your salary will not be increased just because you do more work or are highly capable.

5. The year-end bonus is very average, and its amount is unrelated to ability or KPIs. As long as you obediently follow your supervisor's instructions and do not express too many opinions, it will not be particularly low, but it will not be particularly high either.

6. Overtime is flexible; there is no overtime pay and no compensatory leave, so I recommend not working overtime voluntarily.

For reference, points less related to IT work:

1. Personally, I felt that coordination among departments was poor, and I had quite a few questions during my time there.

2. The points described by other people are all quite accurate.

Finally, the company's IT work is recommended for people in the following situations:

1. People whose abilities are not particularly strong, who do not have high expectations for their future or salary, and simply want to earn a living.

2. People with adequate abilities who negotiated a decent starting salary and can accept not learning much.

3. People of a certain age who simply want a low-stress job until retirement.

HR is quite attractive

The environment is clean and tidy

The view outside the window is quite nice

Beginners may be able to gain experience related to editing

For academic publishing in the Chinese-speaking world, this may already be the best choice

Here is a direct account of the interview process.

At the beginning, I filled out the personal-background questionnaire provided by HR. After finishing it, I waited approximately 20 to 30 minutes before the supervisor (the editor-in-chief) arrived.

The editor-in-chief was approximately in her fifties or sixties. She said she had previously been a university professor and was called “Teacher” by people at the company. She had been invited by the boss to reorganize the editorial department.

According to her explanation, the editorial department’s work begins with selecting works suitable for inclusion in journals through a peer-review system involving experts and scholars. The works are then sent to the editorial department, which checks the text, images, copyrights, the accuracy of cited references, formatting, whether the sentences are fluent, whether they are comprehensible, and so on. The department also discusses revisions and returned manuscripts back and forth with the authors (professors). Once everything is confirmed to be correct, the work is sent for typesetting and proofing. After the proof is checked again, it is sent for printing and uploaded in electronic format.

Given my background, they hoped I would be responsible for medical journals, which may also be a relatively weak area for the company, since its products mainly focus on history, literature, and the arts. However, they apparently had not carefully reviewed my résumé in advance; the interviewer simply looked at the personal-background questionnaire HR had initially asked me to fill out and asked questions while reading it.

The editorial department basically cannot make a profit. “Although it can’t make money, this is a department with ideals! We hope to establish a foothold in Taiwan and make Taiwan a major center for Chinese-language academic publications,” the editor-in-chief said.

The company’s profitable areas mainly consist of academic-paper or image databases, e-books, and its online bookstore.

As for the workload, I was told there were 15 editors, with each person responsible for approximately five or six journals or publications.

“My editors never push work away. They even take the initiative to ask for more work. When someone resigns, they will voluntarily say, ‘I’ll do her work.’ You absolutely won’t see this kind of atmosphere elsewhere. I recruited all these editors myself, and everyone gets along very well,” the editor-in-chief said.

Below are excerpts from some of the editor-in-chief’s remarks. They are essentially unembellished.

“I’m a fairly direct person. Are you a shut-in or something?”

“You don’t remember the formatting you used for your thesis or the databases you used before? You’re practically a blank slate! You also don’t have relevant experience, so I can’t offer you a very high starting salary. It’s impossible for it to be the 34,000 you made before, but I’m not going to give you something in the 20-thousand range either.” (The implication was probably that it would be around 30,000 at most.)

After I asked about the actual job duties, how many editors there were, and how many publications each person was responsible for, the editor-in-chief said, “You’re asking so many questions that I feel like I’m the one applying for the job. I’m just a very direct person—I’m only saying what I feel.” After that, I didn’t really dare ask any more questions.

“You’re asking me what the job duties are, but it’s hard for me to explain clearly. Why don’t you just come in tomorrow and try working for a few days? We’ll give you a little temporary-worker pay.”

“What? You still need time to think it over? If you keep considering it, then you’ll only have Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday left to work this week, won’t you? What are your concerns? The salary? After the three-month probationary period, if you perform very well, you can get a raise in my department. When my department wants to give someone a raise, the boss approves it; raises in other departments never get approved.” (She did not say how much the raise would be. But if this is a department that does not make money, why don’t the other departments get raises while this department can give them?)

“After the probationary period, people in my department don’t clock in or out anymore.” (Isn’t that just a responsibility-based work system?)

“So what exactly are your concerns? I’ve already told you about the salary and the working hours! I’m a very decisive person; you can decide right now. I really don’t know what you’re considering. I don’t know whether your… field of study is good for finding a job, but people in history and literature are extremely grateful for opportunities like this internship of mine! I had expected you to agree right away.”

“Are you going home to discuss it with your parents? Do you need your parents’ consent? If you don’t, why do you still need to go home and think about it? Are both your parents retired? Are you the only child in your family? Or are you going to discuss it with your girlfriend? Do you have a girlfriend? Are you engaged or discussing marriage?”

“If you don’t want it, there are plenty of other people waiting. I don’t like waiting. One night is okay, so think it over and email me directly tomorrow.”

Actually, the teacher/editor-in-chief’s attitude was not bad from beginning to end. Her expression only fell slightly when I said I needed some time to think it over, and only then did she begin actively emphasizing how good the company was, and so on.

Provided as a simple reference.

I used to be in the Engineering Department, under the senior manager, so I’m not familiar with the situation in other departments. I think the work atmosphere is okay, and relations with colleagues and the workload are also okay.

The salary is very average, as is the year-end bonus, and there is only limited opportunity to learn. It feels like a stable job, but there isn’t much room for development. I’ve heard that the overall turnover rate is very high. If you’re looking for a high salary or want to get things done, don’t come here.

Occasionally, you can drink wine from the red wine department (the wine tastes pretty good).

1. According to company policy, overtime is not paid; you can only take compensatory leave. → But if work is busy and your supervisor thinks you are not tired enough or are not qualified, sorry—you will not get to take it.

2. Asking for leave feels like facing an oral examination committee. If you ask for leave to go out and have fun, there is an 80% chance it will be rejected. If you come up with a good “sick” excuse, it will probably be approved. → Taking leave here is not a right unless you are sick.

3. If your supervisor happens to have a fit, be careful. Whenever they suddenly think of something, they will order you around like a personal secretary and make you do things outside your job responsibilities. → For example, asking you to buy a birthday present after work so that the supervisor can curry favor with someone higher up.

4. Your supervisor appears to accept suggestions (and sometimes genuinely does), but most of them will hit one of the supervisor’s landmines, leaving people unsure whether they should express their opinions. → Meetings are like funerals: almost no one wants to speak or even look at the supervisor.

5. Because the supervisor is such a disaster, the department’s work environment is overflowing with negativity every day. You can often hear someone slamming down a phone. → Job seekers who care a lot about workplace atmosphere and mental well-being are genuinely advised not to come.

6. As long as you have been here for less than a year, you are not treated like a person. It is very difficult to take personal leave, and even overtime is hard to report. → As a result, it is also difficult to accumulate compensatory leave hours; besides, even if you have compensatory leave hours, you may not be able to take them.

7. They still retain the old system of a three-month probationary period (and of course, there is a difference in salary). This old system is included in the company regulations, and the documents you are asked to fill out before joining require you to agree to it.

8. Even after passing the “probationary period”—and even just a few days before you are due to visit clients—the supervisor still refuses to give you a business card. If the other party wants to exchange business cards on the day of the client visit, the awkwardness is your problem; the supervisor will not consider it. → I personally attach great importance to this. First, it makes me lose face in front of clients. Second, it is very clear that the supervisor does not regard me as part of the team—regardless of how nicely the supervisor spoke before or how much they said they valued me, failing to do this proves that the supervisor was just talking nonsense.

That’s all—I just wrote this off the top of my head. This is purely a personal impression and an outlet for my feelings; please excuse the casual style.

I have already resigned. If any former colleagues recognize me, please keep it discreet. Thanks.

Benefits at e04

◆ Bonuses/Gifts

1. Year-end bonus - Not much

※ Depends on the company’s operating conditions - The operating conditions are not very good every year

2. Performance reward bonus system

※ The purpose of the performance reward bonus is to meet the needs of the company’s business development and its performance-oriented business strategy. Therefore, the company has established separate performance reward systems for employees with different job responsibilities - I have never been rewarded

3. Mid-Autumn Festival gift voucher - Gift voucher → a bag of rice that has been listened to music

◆ Subsidies

1. Employee continuing-education subsidy - Remember, you have to pursue further education yourself

5. Travel subsidy - The amount provided makes people very uninterested in traveling

◆ Other

2. Department dinners held irregularly - Once a year, irregularly

3. A snack cabinet stocked with more snacks than can be eaten - A snack cabinet that is often empty

4. Enjoy fragrant freshly ground coffee for free at any time - Really coffee that can never be finished