美科實業有限公司

Two hours of exercise time on Fridays; as for the rest, what you can see may not necessarily be what you can enjoy.

It’s hard to put into words. I only came here to read the comments afterward. The situation is truly as described, and turnover is extremely high regardless of the department.

1. You can leave the company two hours early each week to exercise, but in fact, many people do not leave on time because they cannot finish their work.

2. If you suddenly have something to attend to and need to take leave, getting leave approved is relatively easy.

3. If you join, you have to become a manager directly. At the managerial level, as long as you are good enough at talking to the boss and obedient enough, you do not have to do anything else, because the people underneath will do it all.

1. The company requires employees to write an MBO twice a year and requires that scores not be rated too highly unless there is a special achievement demonstrating what you did for the company, along with an excellent report. By the way, this MBO is not a basis for salary adjustments, nor is it a basis for the year-end bonus.

2. Performance reports are sent every day. Please keep this in mind at all times; otherwise, as someone in a position responsible for making money for the company, you will immediately be closely monitored.

3. The company created its own 519 employee travel subsidy. To apply for the subsidy, you must take five consecutive days of personal leave or annual leave at once to achieve a nine-day continuous vacation. What about the work during those nine days? Of course, you have to arrange it yourself in advance or work overtime later to finish it yourself. By the way, to be clear, the subsidy is not much.

4. There are many meetings; having four meetings in a week is considered very basic.

5. You often need to use work hours to support other activities. As for unfinished work, you simply work overtime on your own at night or on weekends.

6. The company has a coffee machine you can use, but the coffee is unbearably bitter—just like this job.

The benefits are all provided, and overall they’re pretty good. The clock-in system uses 104; it’s a bit complicated, but still fairly advanced. It doesn’t look like one of those very traditional old companies, and the office is also quite new.

I heard that in previous years the year-end party involved staying at a five-star hotel for two days and one night (not sure if that’s true).

There is exercise time on Fridays, but some people in certain departments seem to be so busy that they’ve never gone.

I heard a junior manager at the company criticizing and discussing women’s body shapes and appearances. It wasn’t funny at all—very classless and disgusting.

Two hours of exercise time on Fridays

1. Disorganized systems

2. They say Fridays come with exercise time, but there is so much work that it seems impossible to actually go exercise

3. There are many newcomers, and the old-timers have a bad attitude; they don’t know how to do anything

4. There are more than 10 internal company LINE groups. A company that communicates through LINE like this is really not good

5. It’s hard to put into words. I only came here to read the comments afterward, and they turned out to be true

There don't seem to be any advantages.

The job responsibilities are unclear; you never really know what your role is, and the company’s systems and policies are incomplete. When customers come in, you have to shout slogans, and there are also specific uniforms to wear on specific days.

It seems there aren't any.

The turnover rate is very high. At the beginning of the year, a new manager had just joined the Administration Department, and someone left almost immediately. I wonder if there was some inside story behind this??

On the surface, they say they are a B Corp that takes care of employees.

In reality, whenever something goes wrong, they find someone to take the blame; the managers are incompetent.

There are lots of underhanded tactics internally.

Honestly, aside from the exercise time every Friday, this company has no other advantages……

A 9:00–9:30 buffer for starting work

A terrible company that packages its image very well on the surface.

Internally, it constantly cycles people through every department, then fires you once it has used you up.

Every department in this company is the same—they are all constantly getting rid of people.

At first, they take advantage of your resources and effort. Later, once they feel that you can no longer provide more than 160% performance, your superiors start finding excuses to target and trouble you, using both overt and covert methods to push you into resigning.

They can replace even a single receptionist every two months—that should tell you everything. There are many good companies in Taiwan. This company is good at giving you small perks (such as a 9:00–9:30 buffer in the morning), but in reality, you work overtime every day or continue working after returning home, and they expect you to report on it at the next day's meeting. The price you pay is very high.

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There are many company activities, and every now and then you have to support charitable activities unrelated to your job during working hours!

You only have time in the evening to finish the work you’re actually responsible for!

They make it sound good, but when you report overtime, your supervisor will come check on you!

It’s simply a company that pressures its employees and always thinks it’s so great!

There are plenty of perks, but this isn’t real estate—there’s no need to be bought off because of them.

1. When you tell your supervisor about difficulties at work, all they do is tell you to solve them yourself.

2. The boss’s wife and a colleague let out shrill, bell-like screams all day long.

3. They keep chanting all kinds of slogans. Is this North Korea?

4. The boss sings at their desk at the drop of a hat.

5. Monthly meetings are a huge waste of life. If the relationship is good enough, there’s no need to specifically tell each other what you’re doing.

6. The scope of everyone’s job responsibilities is perpetually unclear.

7. The design director has no grasp of the designers’ work progress.

8. If you don’t do things exactly as instructed, they lose their temper—the need for control is off the charts.

9. Cursing out colleagues in group chats is also an everyday occurrence. Too bad I can’t upload pictures.

10. Just how many group chats are they planning to create? It’s as if private LINE accounts were company assets.

11. I hear the CFO will be coming here to take a look. Please, be kind and save your own company.

12. The seating is cramped, as if this were a cram school for exam preparation.

Free products (an annual allowance of NT$10,000)

1. The company’s overall way of operating lacks thorough planning, and it is often putting out fires. Communication between departments is poor, leading everyone to work independently and resulting in low efficiency. Senior management is short-sighted and profit-driven, focused on seeking fame and credit while sitting back and doing nothing.

2. Job responsibilities are unclear, which means some tasks have no one responsible for them, or someone is first found to take the blame. In any case, that person becomes responsible for the task thereafter; when they resist, emotional blackmail begins.

3. The performance evaluation system is absurd. Routine work cannot be listed on the performance evaluation form, effectively requiring employees to take on more tasks without additional pay or overtime compensation. The company clearly operates on the boss’s attitude of “you get paid, so do as you’re told.”

4. When the VIPs valued by upper management visit, employees need to chant slogans to create a beautiful illusion; monthly meetings are opportunities to paint an overly rosy picture. The company deliberately creates an extremely positive atmosphere, and anyone who does not follow the script provided by upper management is treated as a dissenter, making it feel like a cult.

5. They say procedures must be followed, but the boss is the one who most often breaks them, constantly changing decisions from one day to the next. The boss’s wife often forgets what was discussed, leaving her out of the loop; everything has to be done quickly, and her emotions fluctuate greatly. The couple both handle things very casually.

6. Staffing has been cut to the absolute minimum, with one person doing the work of three. The company says on 104 that it does not encourage overtime, which is completely hypocritical. If the work cannot be finished, it is considered an employee-efficiency problem, and naturally there is no overtime pay. It thoroughly embodies the essence of a “pressure-driven” company.

1. Close to home

2. Company benefits~ Better than some, worse than others

3. No salaries below 30,000 (But employees contribute more than 30,000—does that count as an advantage?)

The company introduction is really just for show. Many people apply because they aspire to work here after reading that article.

There are many internal problems....... (To explain in detail)

1. The old chain-smoking demon has been replaced by a new demon. As the saying goes, demons emerge in every era, with each generation replacing the last~ (I feel that the boss and the boss's wife are demons themselves—and demon-making machines.)

2. They are very good at painting a rosy picture, using ideals, dreams, the future, and a stage to morally manipulate employees! (They assign unreasonable or illogical work and tasks, and have you take on many duties outside your job scope.)

3. They seem to care more about winning awards than achieving results?! (Whenever they win an award, they make employees cheer and scream as if at a cult or MLM rally.)

4. They really love rework! (It is extremely inefficient and a huge waste of time. Their self-styled systems or regulations are basically obstacles that keep employees from ever finishing their work.)

5. Overtime is part of everyday life! (It is common to see people still fighting to finish work at the company after 8 p.m. Some even take work home, including on weekends. They say they will not disturb employees' rest or discuss work on weekends, but assigning a huge amount of work effectively means employees are working on their days off too.)

6. Whether overtime can be claimed for overtime pay or compensatory leave depends on the mood of upper management! (Previously, overtime could not be claimed. Later, they said compensatory leave was possible; later still, they said overtime pay might be offered depending on the circumstances. The explanation changes by period, and different supervisors give different answers~)

7. The company says it is a “B Corp,” but it is actually a company that drives people to death! (They use the B Corp label to package the company image, while employee care and governance are a complete mess. They promote exercise and offer rewards, but the work is never finished—who has time to exercise?)

8. Setting aside the constant changes of heart, the policy direction often changes on a whim. (The previous meeting sets the direction, and the next one overturns everything. The culprit is the boss personally.)

9. Performance evaluations are extremely unfair. (The company uses evaluations every six months, yet it can arbitrarily change the evaluation criteria and score weighting before the evaluation period ends, making employees shoot first and draw the target afterward. The target is drawn according to the boss's and supervisors' moods: if they favor you, they let you hit the bullseye; if they dislike you, they make you miss. At best, you receive a smaller year-end bonus; at worst, they make you leave by declaring you unsuitable for the job.)

10. Supervisors speak in bureaucratic, affected tones! (It is fine if you end up with a normal supervisor. If you end up with one of the problematic supervisors, you are on your own. Verbal abuse, emotional behavior, and barbed remarks happen frequently.)

11. The boss is very proud that employees achieve high sales results without having to give them much in bonuses. (They say that the person responsible for a certain brand's distribution channels is a marketing employee without performance bonuses, and that one year-end reward is enough. Yet that person still works very hard to create sales for the company.)

12. They shirk responsibility and smear former employees. If supervisors know which company a former employee is interviewing with, they will even go there to sabotage them. (Whenever there is a problem at work, they shift the blame to the person who left and speak badly about former employees to current employees or customers, saying things like they did not complete the handover properly.)

There is much more........ I am sharing just a few of the issues encountered most often.

Everything above is based on actual experiences. Those planning to interview here should think carefully.

Company benefits and products are available

Close to home

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1. The manager does not know how to lead people, works extremely slowly, and holds a large number of meaningless meetings

2. Colleagues do not respect people or professionalism at all; they can call you an idiot right in front of the manager

3. They deliberately make things difficult and do not treat your clients as clients, always putting them at the very bottom of the company’s priorities and treating customers who trust the company like idiots

4. To save a little money, they create a whole series of blunders and then tell sales staff to clean up the mess, exhausting the trust that sales staff worked so hard to build

5. Returning to the issue of colleagues: they expect sales staff to understand every department’s work, make time for everything, and know everything. Then they criticize sales staff for asking stupid questions and say they do not want to answer or help handle them

6. When workplace bullying is reported to superiors, the only response is excuses such as, “You would encounter this at another company too”

7. The workplace is extremely disrespectful of everyone’s expertise; everyone constantly questions one another and no one trusts each other at all

8. To save a little money, they often have to redo work or spend even more time making up for it, then push the blame onto someone else and make matters worse

9. From the owner to the managers, they are all masters of painting rosy pictures. They call giving you new work a challenge, ask you to accept new tasks as a form of training, and even say that others would love to have these opportunities

10. Sales staff have to maintain customer relationships that have been damaged, constantly clean up messes that keep appearing, and develop new clients. The company thinks it is so impressive that it can pick and choose its customers, but the reality is the opposite: customers do not even think highly of the company

In short, by the end, this company will make you feel that the only thing it has brought to your life is harm.

I worked in sales for more than a year without receiving a single cent in bonuses, which is almost laughable. The manager deliberately lowered project prices and the MOQ, then said that sales staff not being able to receive bonuses was their own problem. It takes at least half a year from initial development to project approval; apparently, other people’s time does not matter. Waiting for the manager means waiting three weeks, with absolutely no initiative. If you pressure colleagues about deadlines, they will scold you for causing too much pressure. There are often sudden clapping situations that you must join in with or you will receive hostile looks; monthly meetings are basically large-scale cult gatherings. Their claim that they are a B Corp is just an illusion; the good treatment of employees exists only in words.

You are also required to go hiking and take photos to create a healthy corporate image, hold banners while shouting various slogans, and then return to the office to work overtime and finish the tasks.

It is completely normal to visit three clients in central and southern Taiwan in one day. Even when you are exhausted, the manager will still use remarks such as, “What makes you think this company is suitable for Meiko?” to suppress any possibility of discussion. Then everyone from senior management down to the managers thinks their company is highly superior and everyone else is worthless.

Close to home.

That's it.

But my home may not be your home.

The chain-smoking HR person mentioned in earlier reviews has been dealt with, so you don't have to worry about that. However, the saying that it takes more than a day for three feet of ice to freeze is absolutely true: one demon may have left, but there are still countless others.

1. First, as several veterans have described, you should take the 104 job description with a grain of salt. I usually don't get off work until after 8 p.m., and there are still quite a few people at the company at 7 or 8 p.m. You may even receive calls after you get home, and weekends go without saying. Work may be assigned from above at any time, and unfinished work is also done on weekends. What about overtime pay? Is anyone going to report this? I'm honestly too lazy to deal with it.

2. Job responsibilities are unclear. No one is responsible for many tasks, so when something is urgently needed, you'll be asked to help out temporarily—but afterward, that task becomes yours, and no matter how hard you work on it, it will never count toward your performance. When you decide to resign and inventory your current work in preparation for the handover, you'll find that 50–70% of it differs from the job description you were given during the interview.

3. Following from the above, when you're asked to take on work outside your job scope, refusing means you'll be told that you're limiting yourself and that your horizons shouldn't be so narrow; you're supposedly expected to try things with different job functions. The emotional blackmail is second to none in the industry. For example, someone applied for an accounting specialist position and ended up becoming a finance specialist (and was criticized for being picky about the work when they objected); someone else applied for an HR position and ultimately became responsible for general affairs, legal affairs, and facilities (and was still questioned about why the HR work hadn't been done well).

4. Management strongly emphasizes that there is a huge stage here for you to perform on. In reality, though, the script has already been written—you just have to follow it. Don't have so many opinions. When you raise an issue, it will be rebutted in a judgmental manner; but when the actual result falls short of expectations, they turn around and question why you didn't raise the issue for discussion in the first place. Are we really people who are difficult to communicate with? (Yes!)

5. Performance evaluations do not use forced distribution, resulting in inconsistent rating standards across departments. Some departments are already close to having outstanding ratings for nearly everyone, indirectly affecting the basis for the weighting of year-end bonuses company-wide. When an employee in that department who received an outstanding rating resigns, the department manager says that the person's day-to-day performance was actually not very good and makes no effort to retain them. (Truly at the cutting edge of the times!)

6. Those who know how to outsource work are called good team players with excellent coordination skills; those who seriously try to do their own work well are called heads-down plodders who are isolated from the outside world.

7. The workplace is very noisy. Sometimes people shout and holler like a cult organization, chant slogans, and big laughs must always be accompanied by clapping.

8. Favoritism is everything. For example, one employee plays mobile games during work, routinely shirks responsibility, and is difficult to communicate with; yet whenever they make a mistake, other departments are always the ones left holding the bag.

Flexible working hours

Free use of products

The supervisor doesn’t understand the work and lacks the ability to manage subordinates. The procedures are changed repeatedly after being explained, and there is never one correct way, wasting a lot of time doing the same thing.

They say overtime is not mandatory, but then keep asking about work progress every few days.

There is no handover, no adjustment period, and whenever you ask about the company’s way of working, they say they are too busy. The workload is heavy.

On the surface, everything appears peaceful, but behind the scenes…

There are products to sell.

1. The job responsibilities described by HR during the interview did not match the actual work.

2. The boss does not respect professional expertise, and the marketing manager is self-righteous and arrogant.

3. New employees are not even given a month to adapt. The supervisor is unwilling to hand over work responsibilities, pushes everything onto the new hire, and requires them to complete the tasks. If they are not completed, the employee will be humiliated.

4. Inefficient weekly meetings are mandatory, and employees are also forced to contribute to a so-called “entertainment fund.”

5. The office is entirely open-plan, with virtually no privacy.

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I interviewed for the Brand Manager position and arrived early. Two female managers came in later; one of them left first. The original salary was already above 50,000, as clearly stated on 104. Then the other female manager told me the salary was at most 48,000, which is 5,000 less than my current salary. I clearly told her I could not accept that, but she still asked me to go back and write two copywriting samples as a test. I sent them, but the experience felt really terrible. Could you please check how much the original salary listed on 104 was?

The products are good.

I joined this company two years ago and discovered that the boss's wife acts like an empress dowager and speaks to people very disrespectfully.

Because the company has anniversary promotions at department store counters, the sales department has to work on-site and work overtime every day, not getting home until after midnight.

The job description on 104 was written to look very appealing, but it was basically just bait to deceive people into joining.

There is serious infighting within the company, and the long-serving HR staff are basically relatives and close associates of the management.

If you love yourself,

then really, don't come to this company to be mistreated.

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My boyfriend clearly went to the interview on time today, but HR at this company reported to the job bank (104) that he failed to show up on time, causing his account to be locked for a week. Fortunately, he has already received an offer from another company; otherwise, he would have been devastated.

Everyone, when you go for an interview, be sure to think it over, think it over, and think it over again. You absolutely must not show even the slightest disrespect toward HR, or HR will mess with you!!!!!!

The product is good to use.

The company adopts a parallel management model, which may seem very free, but each unit operates independently. Worse still, some unit managers are completely selfish and self-serving. It's bad enough that they lack ability and don't know how to lead their subordinates; they treat their subordinates as tools and even speak ill of their own people behind their backs. How can this be tolerated?

1. The company’s products are genuinely good; I still use them even after leaving.

2. Occasionally, there are free promotional items available.

1. At department meetings, I don’t understand why everyone has to put loose change into a piggy bank, with each person deciding how much to contribute. Department meals, snacks, and drinks are paid for from that piggy bank (isn’t that essentially the same as paying for them ourselves?).

2. They say there is no overtime, but during business trips, the only time I got to rest in a whole day was while sleeping; the rest of the time was spent working. It was clearly excessive hours, yet they acted as if going on a business trip were an honor. There was no compensatory leave, and whether you went or not was left up to you.

3. The boss and the boss’s wife do things according to their moods. The boss avoids handling or assisting with matters that should be his responsibility, while the boss’s wife is highly emotional. Both of them love to make sudden, arbitrary decisions.

4. Human Resources completely relies on being a long-time employee and shows no managerial presence. They like to scold people indiscriminately and shout around the office as if it were their home.

Weekly sports classes / The products are pretty good, and employees can purchase them.

90% of the employees are crazy and love to fight

HR has emotional management issues and is a chain-smoking veteran

The boss is incompetent—says one thing in the morning and does another in the afternoon

The boss’s wife has driven away a bunch of employees

Overtime is the norm; leaving on time too often will get you noticed

Far from the MRT

The environment is nice. The office seems to have been renovated and is quite attractive and spacious. It’s an open-plan space without partitions (this may be a matter of personal preference!? You might catch sight of colleagues out of the corner of your eye, so you can’t secretly pick your nose XD). The seating doesn’t feel cramped. It has everything you would expect: a refrigerator, rice cooker, microwave, and water dispenser. The restroom is clean. I saw people changing into indoor slippers, making the whole place feel very comfortable (舒適), like home.

1. During both interviews, they told me that the company does not encourage overtime: once you’ve wrapped up what you’re working on at 18:00, you can leave, and you won’t be forced to work overtime. (Looking back, that was basically a classic case of protesting too much.) But the workload turned out to be enormous, with at least two hours of overtime every day. This is no longer an issue of efficiency—it’s a shortage of staff combined with a frighteningly heavy workload. Moreover, the colleagues seem to have gotten used to working overtime. When quitting time arrives, they actually become more engrossed in their work: typing harder and making phone calls constantly, with absolutely no sign that they intend to wrap things up and go home. The whole atmosphere is extremely exploitative. Alternatively, even when there is actually nothing left to do, people still linger in the office using their computers and chatting. Some people even have their bags packed and sitting on the desk, yet still don’t leave work.

(Just take the company introduction on 104 with a grain of salt; don’t take it literally. For example: “Family is more important than making money” and “Efficiency is more important than overtime.”)

2. The company says the job is governed by a responsibility-based system, so there is no overtime pay and no compensatory leave either—it’s basically treated as doing good deeds. Overtime on holidays can be exchanged for compensatory leave, but it must be approved by a supervisor.

3. You have to pay for the company’s coffee (NT$10 per cup).