新視界整合行銷有限公司

The advantages may depend on whether you happen to meet good colleagues!

It depends on the situation. Sometimes you may meet good colleagues who help each other out; other times, colleagues may dislike each other and openly express their dissatisfaction with one another.

It is also possible for editors and executive planners to have conflicts, so it depends on what the situation is like during the period you work there.

There are really too many to list. I believe you will know that the following comments are all true after reading them. To put it simply, when one person says that this company is bad, they may be spreading rumors. But when many people say that this company is bad, you should think about whether the company really has problems or whether we are all spreading rumors recklessly.

First | How much salary is offered

There is no salary confidentiality here; almost everyone knows roughly how much everyone else earns. Whether the salary is proportional to the workload depends on whether you dare to negotiate your salary at the beginning. You might work hard for more than a year and reach NT$35,000, while the company hires a new master’s graduate at more than NT$35,000 from the start. That said, this company is quite willing to offer high salaries; there have even been cases of monthly salaries above NT$40,000. However, once you name your expected salary, you also have to demonstrate the corresponding work ability.

Second | Salary structure

The salary structure is seriously problematic. I raised this issue when I was still employed, but in the end they brushed it off with vague answers. To get to the point, this company’s salary structure is divided into “base salary,” “professional allowance,” “overtime pay,” and “perfect-attendance bonus.” For example, if your salary is NT$30,000, your base salary is NT$26,000, which complies with the Labor Standards Act, and the remaining professional allowance and overtime pay make up the difference to NT$30,000. You may wonder whether there is an annual bonus. This company does not have an annual bonus; it only has a “full-year bonus.” What is a full-year bonus? If you joined on May 1, 2023, you would receive the full-year bonus in June of the following year—that is, the month after May 1. The full year is counted at the end of April. If you resign before then, can you receive the bonus? The answer is NO. If you submit your resignation in mid-May, can you receive it? The answer is uncertain. Seriously, don’t let the bonus become an issue—just resign after you receive it, unless you really do not care.

Second and a half | Will money be deducted?

Yes. Someone used to be late too many times, which led the company to implement this policy. Because the salary includes a perfect-attendance bonus, as soon as you are late or take leave, you lose the bonus, and you will also be charged for the lateness. In other words, you are punished twice. I previously heard that someone had raised the issue that the perfect-attendance bonus should not be included in the salary structure, but should instead be used as an extra incentive. The supervisor simply said that the salary structure was determined by the company, that it was none of our business, and that they did not need to inform us.

In addition, the company claims to operate under a responsibility-based system while also following a standard office-worker system. It requires employees to arrive punctually, but the workload is arranged in a way that forces you to work overtime to finish it. As mentioned below, you may have to work into the evening or even the middle of the night, but there is no overtime pay because overtime pay is already included in the salary structure—so, officially, the company has already paid you overtime.

Third | Job duties

You work on television programs and government tenders. Television programs are relatively easier. You can look up the company’s YouTube channel yourself. The main issue is the government tenders. I say this sincerely: the boss often puts off starting the tender work until the last two or three days, which is why overtime happens. Even after you finish, revisions are required, and the first version you produce is absolutely never what the boss wants; it will definitely be revised, and you may even be required to work overtime to make the changes. The boss’s thinking is very simple: he believes writing a tender proposal is easy and that he could complete more than half of one in a day. Of course!!! He can write it however he wants, but when we write it, we have to figure out what the boss wants. Besides guessing, we also need creativity and quality. If it does not meet his expectations, he will replace it. Once, for a tender of a similar type, he thought we could simply apply a template. Then, when you did that, he scolded you for applying it that way, saying that not every tender could simply be copied from a template!! I imagine you have many questions. He constantly contradicts himself. So, when he scolds you, just let it go in one ear and out the other; there is no need to take it too seriously. That is just the kind of person he is.

That is about it for now. There is much more in the other comments. The colleagues who harassed people have also all resigned. Oh, right—don’t expect too much from the year-end banquet. It is just an event where the boss wants to show off. Other than getting drunk, the boss has no raffle and gives out no bonuses; everything is about showing off how impressive he is. Definitely do not bring your family, because the boss may harass them. Take note.

Not much of a benefit.

The photographers and production staff are pretty nice.

Suitable for people who like traveling around from the mountains to the sea and from north to south, from morning until night.

If you have to shoot a restaurant in Kaohsiung tomorrow (including night scenes),

you might have to take the high-speed rail at 4 a.m.

and not get back to Taipei until 10 p.m.

I’m not exaggerating.

The boss’s cases often get messed up (the address is written incorrectly, or the content filmed is different from the prewritten script).

Once, I almost got attacked by someone with tattoos.

Luckily, the photographer and I ran fast enough.

Thinking about it now still pisses me off.

The boss also acts according to their mood.

Basically, women get off more lightly,

and people who often suck up to the boss do too.

Everyone else who works hard and puts in the effort is always chewed out mercilessly.

Also, the aesthetic sense is very poor.

I worked here for a year as a program production planner.

Um… because my colleagues are partners who have gone through hardships together,

the team cohesion is very strong.

We jointly stand up against exploitative bosses and exploitative salespeople.

To put it simply, in just a few words, this company's systems are very poor, and the standards are extremely inconsistent. Basically, everything depends on whether the boss is in a good mood that day, or whether he likes you. If he doesn't like you, no matter what you say, he thinks you're defying him. Although you can come into contact with a great many people and things here, and it is actually possible for newcomers or people who have just changed careers to learn a great deal here, if you want to stay here for a long time, I advise everyone to think twice before proceeding.

Basically, I encountered two colleagues at this company who sexually harassed others. The first was a team leader who would never be fired no matter how often he was late or how late he submitted work. The second was the boss, who would start hugging female colleagues after drinking. So women who are thinking about coming to work here should think twice.

Basically, the working hours here are very long. If you want to have a life of your own, I'm sorry, but the boss believes work comes first. If you don't reply to him immediately, he gets angry. Moreover, there is no overtime pay here because there is no time-clock system, and he makes it very clear that your salary already includes overtime pay. The hours for on-location shoots are difficult to control; this is the first possible reason the working hours may become long. The second possibility is that once the boss thinks you have mastered your work, he will continually add more work to your task list. If you tell him that the workload has become excessive, he will say that while working here, you must have professional awareness and make proper use of resources. He believes that an employee basically has to work until after 8 p.m. to count as an employee with the right attitude. If you leave work on time, even if you have completed all your work properly, he still thinks you are not serious. Simply put, he is the ultimate example of an exploitative boss.

As for the sales side, they often arrange on-location shoots with unreasonable schedules. For example, you may have to use six hours in one day to film at six locations, with the travel time between each location possibly being around 20 minutes.

In short, if you want to accumulate experience quickly, this is a very good avenue, because you may be able to do three months' worth of work within one month. However, if your physical condition is not very good, it is probably better not to come work here.

Xinshijie Integrated Marketing Company

Basically, there are no advantages. However, everyone is exploited, so the only benefit is that it is easy to find colleagues who share a sense of solidarity.

Xinshijie Integrated Marketing Company

I worked at this company as a program production planner. It is located near Jing'an Station and has been operating for more than 20 years, but it has always remained very small—definitely never more than 20 people. Why is that? Because the company is simply terrible.

Basically, there are no advantages. However, everyone is exploited, so the only benefit is that it is easy to find colleagues who share a sense of solidarity.

The disadvantages really cannot be covered in three days and three nights.

1. (Company system: No clocking in or out; scheduled hours are 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.)

Don't believe the company's nonsense. If you arrive after 9:30, the boss and the sales staff will constantly mock and criticize you. Also, no one's workload can realistically be completed before the end of the workday, so working until 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. is considered normal. I have even encountered situations where people were still not off work at 11:00 p.m. Not to mention the teams that go out for filming: they may leave at 5:00 a.m., return to the company at 8:00 p.m., and leave again at 5:00 a.m. the next day. As for overtime pay? Sorry, since there is no clocking in or out, there is no overtime pay.

2. (The company guarantees employees holiday bonuses, year-end bonuses, bonuses for the three major traditional holidays, incentive bonuses, and performance bonuses.)

You must actually have completed a full year of employment to receive a year-end bonus. For example, if you joined on March 1, 2017, you would have to wait until Lunar New Year in 2019 to receive your year-end bonus. What about the 2018 bonus? Sorry, since you had only been employed for 11 months at Lunar New Year, you would not receive one.

They basically pretend not to know about the three-holiday bonuses; they will only give them if you bring them up. If you do not mention them, the company acts as if they do not exist.

The rest of the bonus system is all nonsense.

3. (Public holidays are observed whenever a statutory holiday falls on a red-marked date, strictly in accordance with the Labor Standards Act.)

Basically, the situation described in point one happens every day, so do not expect this company to follow the Labor Standards Act. As for holidays, I have encountered people who took only five days off in an entire month and accumulated the remaining days, then took only five days off again the following month. The leave keeps accumulating and can never be fully taken. What if a sales representative contacts you while you are on leave? Don't worry—the boss will tell you to finish the work at home. The day will still be counted as leave, while all telephone charges and other expenses incurred are entirely your responsibility. The company will not cover them.

4. (Complete one unit of business work per day.)

This is basically possible, because one person is usually responsible for five, six, or seven tasks, and new work is added every day. So if you do not finish today's work, you have to work overtime; otherwise, it piles up for tomorrow, when new work will also arrive. It really never ends. Even if you complete it, do you think something produced in such a short time can have any quality? You may ask whether there is a work schedule. Sorry, the work schedule is for reference only, and changes to the day's assignments happen almost every day.

5. (The company's business scope is diverse.)

This is also true. Its main areas of business are events, tender projects, and travel-oriented commercial programs. The scope is unbelievably broad. Basically, they have done everything you can think of: organized crime, direct selling, scam groups—as long as someone is willing to pay, they will do it. They completely disregard professional ethics and constantly challenge employees' professional standards. Their business covers the entire country. You might film in Miaoli today, be sent to Chiayi the day after tomorrow, and then be sent to Hualien the following day. Traveling around the island two or three times a month is absolutely possible. As for tender projects, they simply fire blindly in every direction: whenever there is a tender, they tell you to write the proposal. Even if you already have a heavy workload, the boss will still tell you to write it. He always likes to order you to finish it at the very last moment before the deadline. If you cannot do it, he will loudly berate you and say that you are responsible. Sometimes I really want to ask the boss: “Can you complete a week's worth of work in half a day?”

6. (The company is well organized.)

Don't be ridiculous! This is also complete nonsense. Starting with the boss: he is a veteran and claims to have a lot of experience, but after working as a production assistant for only a few months, he went straight out and started a company. He is always flaunting his EMBA degree, which was essentially bought with money. Don't assume that what the boss says is sometimes reasonable; it is actually a smokescreen to cover up how unqualified he is. To put it plainly, his more than 20 years of experience are fake. He does not understand the communications industry at all and has no idea how it operates. The sales department only makes calls and takes on business; once they get a project, they dump it on the planning team and wash their hands of it. When it comes to budgets, they constantly squeeze their own staff, so people often end up paying out of pocket. As for the planning team, there is a team leader who always assigns himself the easiest work. He sleeps at work every day and sleeps during location shoots as well. He angers clients and then argues with them, and he only ever does half of each task, so whoever takes over his work practically has to start over. He also sexually harasses female colleagues at work. His work efficiency is far lower than everyone else's. Guess what happened to him in the end? He received a NT$5,000 raise, while everyone else continued to be exploited by the company. The editing team never goes out either. Whenever the editing is poor, they blame the planner for writing a bad script. They are extremely self-important, like frogs at the bottom of a well, unaware of what the outside world is like and convinced that their inadequate editing skills are everything. Worse, they receive high salaries. As for discipline, don't even mention it: they drink at work and ○ ○ in the office, truly treating the workplace like a hotel.

In short, this is a company with no discipline whatsoever, where the boss acts according to his mood and everything is completely chaotic.

The salary offer is a little higher, and the boss is okay with that. But I haven't started work yet, so I don't know whether there will be deductions here and there.

The boss seems very arrogant, constantly taking a high-handed attitude and emphasizing how much value you create to determine how much he can offer you. There are only a few employees on the entire office floor, so it feels empty. When I asked about employee training, the three holiday bonuses, year-end bonuses, and other benefits, he was vague and even asked why I was asking so many questions. He said all of these could be provided if I worked hard. It feels like a company with very little structure—a company where personal rule outweighs established systems.

Spotted a snack area

The work environment feels quite unstable

They proactively sent interview invitations through different job application websites, but the positions were different—one was for video editing and the other for program planning. They did not respond when I emailed to ask about it, but the next day the company sent another interview invitation through 104.

I called to ask what was going on. The person who answered replied, “So, what can you do?” Still, I went ahead and scheduled an interview...

I arrived early on the day of the interview and was interviewed at the same time as another applicant. On the phone, they said that the director conducted interviews at a fixed time of 4 p.m. every afternoon. Later, I found out that there were interviews almost every day (the turnover rate must be very high).

When 4 p.m. arrived, the other applicant and I were still sitting there waiting. People in the office were vaguely discussing things like, “Does the director know someone is coming for an interview today?” and “Has the director not come back yet?” This made me feel that the interview was not being taken seriously. Later, another employee conducted the interviews first, and the other applicant and I were interviewed separately, one-on-one.

The interview consisted mostly of basic questions and asking about my desired salary. The interviewer only asked a few additional questions and recorded the information. Also, you had to bring your own résumé. Although bringing a résumé should be standard, even after interviewing with quite a few companies, most would print out the résumé information entered on the job application website. However, this company seemed to have no idea how many people were scheduled for interviews that day. In any case, the director eventually showed up, briefly looked over my résumé, and asked only a few questions:

“Do you want to work here?” “What salary are you hoping for?” “Can you start work next Monday?”

Then they did not ask anything else in particular and sent me on my way. (I heard the other applicant being asked the same three questions.)

Likes freshly graduated newcomers, especially those who have experience making things and attending meetings while circumnavigating the island in a single day, hehe.

Actually, I’m an editor. It’s also very demanding. They previously said there would only be a year-end bonus after completing a full year, and unused compensatory leave cannot be exchanged for money.

The boss is a veteran who loves bringing up the past.

One more thing: overtime pay is absolutely impossible.