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Read the community guidelinesThere are still some advantages to working for a large company:
1. After the three-month probationary period, you become a regular employee and receive three days of company-provided paid leave. This is pretty good.
2. You drive a company car, so you don't have to use your own car at all, saving your beloved vehicle from a lot of wear and tear.
3. The company quite often participates in road-running events organized by private groups. I heard that if the location is relatively far away, the company will subsidize transportation or fuel costs, and as long as you finish the race, it will also subsidize accommodation expenses. This is pretty good too.
4. There are fewer than 10 employees in the central region, and most of them are fairly easy to get along with.
5. If your start date happens to cross into the month of your birthday, you immediately receive a NT$3,600 birthday bonus. Getting it feels great.
6. There seems to be a guaranteed year-end bonus equivalent to one month, but it is based on base salary rather than full salary. The base salary is pieced together from various components. There is also a mid-year bonus, but the amount still depends on what the company decides to give; it does not seem to be fixed.
7. Customers and supervisors generally do not bother you much after work or during holidays.
1. The disadvantages can probably already be inferred from the advantages above. There are only four actual salespeople, and one position has been vacant for more than a year. With so few people, the workload is unbelievably heavy. The central region covers Miaoli, Taichung, Changhua, and Nantou.
2. The bonus is paid quarterly, but it is calculated based on monthly sales performance. Even when you meet the target, the bonus is pitifully small—and first you have to actually meet it. The sales targets are frighteningly high: out of 10 customers, 11 are complaining. Reaching 100% is genuinely difficult, yet even when you achieve it in a single month, you only get those NT$2,000–3,000 or so... I heard that if you fail to reach 85%, NT$1,000 may even be withheld from your bonus in advance. So your salary is basically just a fixed wage; don't expect much from the bonus.
3. The sales targets set by the company are high, so you have to keep stuffing products into customers' hands. When customers cannot sell everything, they naturally turn to the sales staff for help, so your position becomes extremely contradictory. You often have to help customers sell the products; if you sell them too cheaply, you will be reprimanded, and on top of being scolded, you may have to make up the price difference yourself.
4. There is a lot of paperwork. Every day, you do not leave the office until after noon, and you only visit a few customers in the afternoon. Over time, this becomes quite mentally exhausting.
In short, it is suitable for young people who want to hone their skills and accumulate experience, but those who already have experience should think it over themselves.