鼎基先進材料股份有限公司

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The interview experience was very poor

The manager doesn’t care what you can do

They choose people based on their gut feeling

There are other better companies in Kaohsiung; there’s no need to interview at this kind of company

The probationary salary is good—28,000.

The production department is extremely demanding.

8-hour workday

There is no break in between.

Day-shift employees are pressured to work an additional half hour to an hour after their shift.

No overtime pay!!

Some supervisors don't do any work at all and only want to make things difficult for the operators.

If you want to go to work, you have to be tough enough.

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The HR manager asked me to introduce myself during the interview.

After I finished my self-introduction, the HR manager asked why I had stayed at my previous companies for only a little over two years at most, and asked me to explain briefly. Then the IT manager came in and asked me conversationally:

At my previous company, which servers and what equipment had I managed at the government agency? They also asked about database backups.

Halfway through, they said their boss wanted to see my résumé and took me to another small meeting room.

After the department head finished the interview, the IT manager asked whether the unfinished DB was in a virtual machine or what.

It was a physical host. Overall, from top to bottom, it felt like the department head held the power, while the IT manager had little authority and only wanted to push down the salary to get someone to join.

The HR manager said that their company was undergoing an IT transformation and that they were going to implement SAP. It is not that simple.

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Paid a team leader’s salary, but after being transferred to another department, ended up doing technician work. The technical skills are unbelievably poor. Reporting it to the department manager is completely ineffective, and the team leader also likes to gossip at work and does nothing about it. This is a company where officials protect one another and treat operators as if they were at the very bottom.

There are already quite a few online discussions, so I won't explain too much. However, since this hasn't been updated for quite a while, I thought I'd provide an update (technician position).

Very few people talk about the advantages (because there really aren't many advantages XD?).

The salary is a little higher than at other companies (for someone with no work experience), the working hours are normal with little overtime (8 hours), the drinks sold by the company's vending machine are much cheaper than those outside, and the work environment is fairly relaxed.

The base salary is low (really low... the monthly income mainly depends on shift allowances to bring it up, along with some bonuses, perfect-attendance bonuses, and so on).

It's very busy! Very demanding! When it's busy, it's really busy; when it's idle, it's very idle (once the day's basic work is finished and you're continuously servicing the same vehicle/machine). You often have to carry heavy things (free arm workouts).

The team-leader culture... well... some team leaders are nice and easy to get along with. Others put on an old-timer attitude, always looking sullen, don't really want to deal with you, and don't proactively teach you much. Even if you ask questions, they may not necessarily answer. Usually, they only teach you when a situation comes up, and then expect you to learn quickly. Dealing with this kind of situation is really frustrating. The work is already pretty demanding, and you also have to keep watching the team leader's mood while working. If you don't know something, they won't scold you, but they will give you a sullen look; when you ask, they still don't want to teach you (do they actually want me to learn or not...?). Often, the team leader is busy over there while you don't know what to do or are just working aimlessly. You follow them around and can only wait for the team leader to tell you what to do, like a lackey (you can't do much—when you ask, they also can't be bothered to answer, so you can only wait for orders). This kind of work is exhausting! (Mentally exhausting; physical exhaustion would be enough, but you also have to deal with mental exhaustion.) And sometimes the team leader doesn't even really understand the work! (Things go wrong.)

That said, not every team leader is terrible; there are good ones too. They teach you what needs to be done in the workflow and also teach you work techniques. When they know you're busy, they help take on some of your workload. A terrible team leader, however, knows you're busy or that you've been assigned to another vehicle today, but still leaves your original workload waiting for you to handle when you return (just thinking about it makes me furious... Would it kill the team leader to help out a little?! Even when they know time is tight, they just wait for me to deal with it).

Although the workday is short every day (you leave after 8 hours), there are no fixed break times. It's also shift work (three shifts, scheduled shifts), with six days on and two days off. For someone who isn't used to physically demanding work, the beginning can be a difficult adjustment period.

Well... that's roughly everything. I'll add more if I think of anything else (actually, there are just too many drawbacks and I don't feel like typing them all XD?).

However, for someone with no experience who is looking for a starting salary of 30K or more, it may be worth considering (if you don't mind demanding work).

P.S. The terrible team leader I encountered treated other people well (referring to fellow newcomers). Maybe I personally just didn't catch their eye. I don't really know how to chat casually with seniors or team leaders, and I prefer to face them with a serious attitude toward learning. So I suggest that anyone who goes there should be fairly good at chatting XD (or very good at flattering people?!).

That's all; this is merely a brief sharing of my personal experience and impressions.

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Some of the motorcycle line leaders only want to take it easy. As for senior management, I will refrain from commenting; after all, anyone who becomes a supervisor must have areas of strength. However, taking care of the machines is the responsibility of the line leaders and technicians. Yet some line leaders are enjoying themselves immensely while the technicians are exhausted to the point of being treated like dogs. That said, it would be unfair to deny that some line leaders are still very good! As for certain self-important line leaders, all I can say is: you are not more capable than anyone else. When things go wrong, all you do is call the supervisor to handle it. I really cannot stand line leaders like you—when taking care of the machine yourself, you make it sound as though you know everything, but once a technician is assigned to you, you spend every day sitting back and playing on your phone. Whenever the technician takes leave, you even ask the technician from the neighboring machine to mix the dye for you. Did the company hire you to sit around playing on your phone? Senior employees who refuse to step aside are driving newcomers to the breaking point.

Build your body and work out your muscles to death for free

It’s dark to an almost godlike degree. Most supervisors coast along waiting to die, while management has an inflated sense of self-importance. Their rigid thinking could bring the company down someday, and it wouldn’t be surprising. Many longtime employees are difficult to deal with. Unless you have no other choice and would otherwise starve to death, don’t go there.

I don't know the pros at all yet

Relying on HR is really messing with people. I've submitted my résumé several times.

They call every time, but each time it only rings once before hanging up~ When I call back, I don't even know who to look for.

Does HR actually want to recruit people or not? Or are they just putting on a show?

The best year was the 30th year, and that’s when I earned the most.

You can’t leave work on time. If you clock out five minutes late, you still have to stay another half hour, which doesn’t count as overtime pay.

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The position advertised when applying was different from the work actually performed; you’re sent to whichever department is short-staffed. QC staff may even be reassigned to work in the on-site manufacturing department—what the hell is this? Everyone at the level of foreman and above covers things up; it’s utterly awful.

There are no good promotion opportunities, and management only knows how to push work onto others. The year-end bonus has been 2.5 months’ salary for so long, and it’s still based only on base pay. They only talk about sharing the hardships, but what about when the company is making money? Why is the performance bonus so high if it isn’t used to increase the year-end bonus? Please open your eyes—the people who actually do the work are all at the bottom.