敦樸企業股份有限公司

The boss is extremely rude to employees and even loudly berates them. Everything is decided by the boss; the company has no systems or benefits—they are all lies. They first deceive people into joining the company and then use lousy excuses to tell them to leave. The turnover rate is high. It is simply a waste of time to interview there; it is really not worth it. There is also no overtime pay for working overtime.

The boss is extremely rude to employees and even loudly berates them. Everything is decided by the boss; the company has no systems or benefits—they are all lies. They first deceive people into joining the company and then use lousy excuses to tell them to leave. The turnover rate is high. It is simply a waste of time to interview there; it is really not worth it. There is also no overtime pay for working overtime.

The company’s interior is very clean.

An employee submitted a resignation five days in advance, and the company required the employee to complete the resignation procedures and leave the company the following day. Later, concerned that the company might be violating the law, the HR department contacted the Labor Bureau for confirmation. After providing the employee with a written assurance that they could leave early, the company issued the transfer-out documents for labor and health insurance and a certificate of employment that day, while calculating wages through the 5th—the employee’s originally planned resignation date—and the parties reached an initial agreement. After all resignation procedures had been completed and the labor and health insurance had been transferred out, the company changed its position and demanded that the employee continue working until the resignation date before leaving. The repeated changes in the company’s statements were very uncomfortable, and the labor-management relationship had already broken down.

Many meal options nearby

1. New-hire turnover is high (from what I have seen, the average tenure is currently less than three months).

2. No overtime pay or compensatory leave in Taipei; 15 days of business travel to mainland China are exchanged for one day of compensatory leave.

3. Meetings are frequently scheduled during lunch breaks or 10 minutes before the end of the workday, usually lasting two hours. Documents or drawings are required on the same day after the meeting.

4. At least four employees, both senior and junior, were laid off before the Lunar New Year on the grounds of being unsuitable for their positions.

5. An employee was laid off on the afternoon of the year-end party.

6. A new employee who had been with the company for three days was laid off on the grounds of saving personnel costs.

7. Salaries are not paid until the fifth working day of each month; payment is delayed when it coincides with a public holiday or weekend.

8. Positions are reassigned arbitrarily. An engineering manager may suddenly be put in charge of the marketing department.

9. Employees are told that nothing except laptops may be placed in the office area, including water cups. Can anyone really go a whole day without drinking water?

10. The employee office area is described as a mobile office, and employees are often told to change seats arbitrarily, supposedly to save electricity for the company.

It's very convenient to coast and slack off.

There are tons of self-righteous people who pretend to know things they don't and love to show off.

Use it as a stepping stone, but don't stay long-term; you'll develop bipolar disorder and depression.

It seems to have violated the Labor Standards Act many times,

but apparently fines don't scare them～

In any case, the company has money.

I strongly recommend not wasting your time interviewing.

Don't waste your time. The way things are done here is seriously problematic. It's truly amazing that the company is still around. I didn't see any R&D personnel here; the employees from my time were dismissed one by one. I only reluctantly stayed because I hadn't found another job yet, and then, before the Lunar New Year, they told me to leave. Don't waste your time here—any company is better than this one.

Record of being penalized for violating the Labor Standards Act in 2018

New Taipei Labor Cloud

Illegal Employer Search: Dunpu

Labor Standards Act, Article 24

Failure to pay the required additional wages for extended working hours

Responsible person: Ding Zhiyu

New Taipei City Government Labor Inspection No. 1073567112

2018/05/29

20,000

Only the wooden flooring looks nice

The HR department and the chairman are alike—they both really like berating people.

The chairman seems to have anger issues; not a day goes by without him berating someone, and he does it by shouting.

Apart from calling people idiots, Zhu Bajie, and other insults, he also has a bad temper and throws things around.

I strongly advise everyone not to waste their time at this company, because no matter how capable you are, you will be berated until you seem completely useless.

In particular, people applying for mechanical design positions should absolutely not go!

On your first day, he will give you a drawing; on your second day, he will ask you to draw beside him. If you work slowly, he will criticize you and say that even using Paint, he can draw faster and better than you!!!

He also mixes up mechanical design and ID.

The smart ones leave on the second or third day. Unfortunately, those who stay are dismissed on the ninth day because the boss does not want to pay too much severance. No one is spared!

Moreover, the boss makes HR calculate every day how many days each newcomer has been there. On the ninth day (including Saturday and Sunday—actually seven working days), he decides whether to tell you to leave.

You have not even become familiar with the workplace or its surroundings, and then you are told to leave on the ninth day. It is truly miserable—do not waste your time.

This is a company that never tires of ruining people’s careers!

To be honest, the relatively free environment and spacious office.

Unfortunately, everything else was a drawback. For the past one to two months, I had been applying for e-commerce operations positions. During my interview, photography and video were mentioned, but not extensively, since my photography, videography, and image-editing skills are not particularly strong. As an e-commerce operations specialist, listing and delisting products, shipping, advertising analysis, and operations are the main priorities of e-commerce. During the second interview, they also hoped that I could integrate the e-commerce operations. Although I felt it would be difficult, it should not have been a major issue if there had been a relevant contact person.

When I first joined, I already felt that something was unusual because the very large office was extremely spacious. During the interview, they said the company had products listed for sale on Amazon, Shopee, and JD.com. However, the company's products generally had poor reviews. When I opened the relevant backends, I even found a large number of serious customer complaints alleging that the products leaked and caught fire violently after purchase. In addition, the owner asked me as soon as I joined to write a three-month work plan and PDCA. It was genuinely difficult for me to provide that immediately upon starting.

Later, my supervisor asked me to provide product keywords. At the time, I naturally assumed this would not be a major problem: I could simply extract backend data and use it as the basis for optimization and refinement. However, the company had stopped all advertising activities after March or April. Aside from inferring keywords from competitors, I could only provide a new keyword report based on the performance of advertising keywords from six months earlier.

Because the owner had no understanding of e-commerce whatsoever, and the supervisor had a sales background, I carried out advertising activities, product tracking, and so on based on what I could do personally. However, because the company had long lacked proper e-commerce management, many products that had been discontinued several years earlier were still sitting on the shelves. Some inventory had been in storage for more than two years, and the brand store lacked proper construction, design, and products. Many products had ratings that were too low and needed to be relisted. However, because the company's division of responsibilities and handovers were unclear, it was difficult to obtain product codes. The lack of graphic and design personnel also made it genuinely difficult to relist the products.

After completing the basic remediation of the e-commerce operations, the owner expected me to launch new platforms on other sites for sales. However, the company's credit-card information was disorganized, making the task difficult to accomplish. After the FBM listings were completed, the warehouse could not provide packing slips for shipping (Amazon UK), and also had only a vague understanding of the products' length, width, and height. In addition, the packaging descriptions did not match the actual measurements, and there was a considerable difference between the weights before and after packaging. At that point, I did not even know whether the official website could be trusted. In fact, the PDI sheet, official website, and e-commerce backends were completely inconsistent. The PDI sheet was manually updated daily by a contact in mainland China, so its reliability could not be clearly determined.

In addition, the HR employee who also handled finance seriously lacked an understanding of advertising. All advertising budgets had to be divided into separate installments, like slicing a sausage, with each installment requested separately. As a result, many ads with excellent ACOS performance died in the process. This method seriously disrupted ad operations and made it difficult to analyze and review different advertising behaviors. It also often forced products with fundamentally different selling points into a single budget package. This frequently wasted large amounts of clicks and exposure, which was extremely regrettable. To make matters worse, unlike at ordinary companies where HR and finance provide paper forms to facilitate procedures, or where digitization allows them to help track processes, this person simply opened the electronic approval system and told you to do it yourself, even though it should have been their job. Their attitude when providing instructions was also unfriendly.

In addition, because the owner acted without careful consideration, while I was employed I took over an explanation concerning products that were difficult to relist because they had received one- and two-star reviews, in the hope of helping. The owner directly canceled the outsourced operations contract, even though the company's Google keyword backend had been created by the outsourced operator and no one at the company knew what was in the backend...

Aside from the frustrations of ordinary work, there were also many meaningless meetings that often lasted several hours. Meetings with the mainland China contact and the owner often lacked meaning and conclusions from an e-commerce perspective. At the same time, I could clearly sense the irresponsible attitude and working style of the mainland China contact.

The company's shipping department only began taking action after I urged them, even though six cross-border e-commerce shipping orders had already been delayed for a week. They even asked me to create a spreadsheet so they could calculate shipments (Amazon FBM). Not only were the quantities counted incorrectly, but because the owner chose the cheapest shipping method, the shipment was expected to arrive in the United States two weeks later. I do not know which ordinary B2C buyer would accept waiting three to four weeks for something purchased online to ship, especially when the price was several times higher than those of competitors. In addition, right before e-commerce promotional campaigns, the company basically doubled the product prices...

While business matters were constantly stalled and time was wasted, it was often possible to hear the owner yelling at people from his office. I almost never heard the owner not scolding someone. If employees frequently hear the owner yelling in the office, morale can easily be affected. In addition, the owner liked to exploit employees' time and services cheaply. I was repeatedly asked to take product photos and produce videos, even though I had already said during the interview that I was not very capable in these areas and would need support and training. The owner would even consider keeping you in a meeting until 8 p.m. an appropriate use of his valuable time, or ask you to cut flowers and grass. I was also asked to support the company on Saturdays and Sundays. There was no overtime pay; at most, I could take compensatory days off, and they even said this was because of my low job grade.

The final straw was two things:

1. The mainland China “consultant” questioned me about why I had changed the e-commerce prices, even though the prices had been set by the owner. The consultant had not even done the work before coming after me...

2. The supervisor clearly said that a Japanese agent would handle Yahoo Japan and Amazon Japan, but then said that the agent had already listed the products but would not operate the stores, and asked me to take over. Since I work in e-commerce, apparently my value was that I could do it. However, the next day I discovered that Amazon JP was blank. I told my supervisor that I did not speak Japanese, but he still expected me to translate the Amazon US content into Chinese and then into Japanese. I replied that the buyers were Japanese, but he said, “What else can we do? I don’t know.”

So I resigned that afternoon...

The office has distinctive decor in an industrial, eco-friendly style. The greenery is pretty good, with fish and vegetables. If it weren’t for the boss’s shouting at employees, you could even hear the gentle sound of running water while at work.

Actually, this is a confession. Before joining, I should have believed that the 100% negative reviews online were absolutely not fabricated or baseless. I thought that anyone who posted an online review must simply be an unhappy employee, so naturally there would be no positive reviews. But the consequence of stubbornly refusing to believe them was that I experienced the very things people had described online. So I’m writing this advice for anyone considering interviewing or working here: first evaluate for yourself whether you have the following traits suited to this company, to avoid needlessly increasing the turnover rate or being laid off.

1. Extremely stress-resistant: Meetings may finish just before the end of the workday, and then you’ll be expected to produce the materials discussed in the meeting that same day. When the boss asks for materials, they are usually due that day or the next. You may find that you’ve spent the entire workday in meetings and only have time to prepare the materials after work.

2. An EQ as high as the sky: Whenever the boss is at the company, they are yelling at people. There is a victim every day—today coworker A gets scolded to keep everyone else safe, and tomorrow coworker B takes the fall. I’ve heard the boss call coworkers “garbage” and “pigs,” and even throw their documents.

3. Physically healthy, especially with no blood-sugar or stomach problems: The boss likes to hold meetings around 11 a.m., which usually means missing lunch. You can only rush through lunch and then continue working. Alternatively, an impromptu meeting in the evening may last until 8 p.m., with no meal or snacks provided. Sometimes lunch is eaten during a meeting, with everyone working while they eat—resulting in terrible indigestion and no lunch break.

4. Preferably single: You will often spend the day in meetings and the evening preparing materials, or impromptu meetings will delay you past the end of the workday. People with families should think twice before joining. Once you enter this company, all your time belongs to the boss. Whatever they suddenly feel like doing, you have to accommodate. Ideally, you should even be available on weekends to go to their mountain to plant vegetables or do woodworking!

5. Able to elevate yourself to the boss’s position: The company operates under a responsibility-based system with no overtime pay. Joining this company means treating the company’s work as your entire life—and of course, there is no overtime pay. This has been documented by the Ministry of Labor and is absolutely not an unfounded claim. Anyone interested can check the Ministry of Labor’s system for querying businesses (employers) that have violated labor laws and regulations; simply enter the company name.

6. Have at least one month’s living expenses on hand: If you have a mortgage or other regular loan payments, prepare enough cash reserves before joining this company, because the company does not pay salaries until the fifth working day. For example, in October this year, because of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday and National Day at the beginning of the month, salaries were not paid until the 12th.

7. Like change: Constantly changing orders and reversing decisions are the norm at this company. The boss frequently changes decisions so abruptly that you are caught off guard.

8. Like challenges: You may apply for job A, but after starting, be told to do job C as well as job B. Whether or not you are skilled at it or have relevant expertise, if the boss wants you to do it, you have to do it.

9. Be seriously short of money or looking for a stepping-stone job: Because of the company’s online reviews, it has trouble recruiting people, so if you are really short of money or looking for a temporary job while searching for something better, you can give it a try. Why are people looking for a stepping-stone job suitable? Because you never know when the boss will take a dislike to you or decide that your cost-performance ratio is not worth your salary and arbitrarily find a reason to tell you to leave. If you have a career plan for yourself, I personally feel this place is absolutely unsuitable.

10. Familiarity with labor laws and regulations is a plus: The boss may clearly be the one telling you to leave, yet still not want to pay severance or wages in lieu of notice. It is strongly recommended that only people familiar with labor laws and regulations take a job here. Otherwise, keep the Labor Bureau’s consultation hotline on hand and seek advice whenever necessary, so that even the most basic legal protections are not overlooked.

11. Young people: Jobs are easy to find, so if you are suddenly laid off, you can quickly return to the workforce. Because of its online reputation, the company likes to recruit older people, but if a middle-aged or older employee is suddenly dismissed, finding the next job can be difficult. This place is definitely unsuitable for them.

12. People without financial pressure: If you discover that the company truly isn’t suitable, you can walk away freely, rather than being caught in a dilemma or being severely exploited by the boss but afraid to leave because you need the money.

Because people who can meet all the conditions above are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns, the company’s turnover rate is extremely high. People either resign very quickly or are told to leave by the boss. The company has no hiring plan at all: it may decide today that it needs to hire an EE, then decide a few days later that it is no longer needed and tell the person to leave. It keeps changing job titles to recruit people, but the work is actually the same—you are expected to handle A, B, and C simultaneously. You work yourself to death, yet they complain endlessly and scold you every day. You think you are working hard and doing what is best for the company, but the company treats you like a tissue: use it once and throw it away. However, I should clarify that the company does hold birthday parties. I heard that health checkups have not been held for many years, although they used to be. As for other benefits, I really can’t list any—perhaps I’m not senior enough to have received them. In short, enter at your own risk! Finally, I hope the gods protect us and grant the boss wisdom, so they will stop treating employees this way!

A friendly reminder: If you find that you are scolded no matter what you do, or even scolded when something has nothing to do with you, the boss may be trying to drive you out. You can assess for yourself whether to stay or leave.

There are parking spaces. The environment is okay.

A year-end bonus of two months’ salary (as long as you haven’t been scolded or driven away, you’ll receive it)

A 90-minute lunch break (as long as the boss hasn’t come in and called a meeting, you’ll get the full break)

Does not comply with the Labor Standards Act: no overtime pay for overtime work, and employees are asked to sign a consent form stating that if they are driven away by the boss within three months, they cannot receive severance pay.

You may be called at any time to go up to the mountains to plant vegetables or to repair things at the boss’s home (work unrelated to your job duties).

The boss may call people “trash” or “pigs” at any time. If the boss feels someone is unnecessary, they will berate that person until they resign.

The position advertised is just for show. After you start working, regardless of what position you applied for, you do whatever the boss tells you to do.

No holiday bonuses for the three major festivals!! No health checkups!! No birthday celebrations!! There are no benefits here at all!!

Salary is not paid until the fifth working day of each month; if it falls on a weekend, payment is delayed!!

New hires are first summoned to the boss’s office and threatened. Then, if the boss decides they are of little use, they are driven away in less than a month.

Conclusion: The boss absolutely treats employees as “slaves.” So, for the sake of your career and future, do not go to the interview under any circumstances.

Do not waste your time, breath, and life working for a boss like this, because he does not treat employees as human beings!!!!

Replace a batch of new hires every 3 months, no doubt!!

The boss has lost his mind

Replace the entire batch of new hires every three months, no problem!!

The boss has lost it

The space is nice.

The boss is extremely disrespectful of professional expertise, often verbally threatening disciplinary warnings, rudely telling people to resign and get lost. The company atmosphere is exceptionally hostile, and the high turnover rate has led to poor continuity in business operations. Business scopes are reassigned arbitrarily and unreasonably.

The environment is good and clean.

The company has no system and no benefits; everything is decided by the boss. The boss is extremely rude to employees and loudly berates them, almost every day. They often hold meaningless meetings just before noon or shortly before the end of the workday, wasting time, and there is no overtime pay, so it is truly a waste of time. If the boss does not like you, they will use a bad excuse to tell you to leave. They also make things difficult for employees who are about to resign, so no one can part on good terms. The company has a high turnover rate, with the average employment period being less than three months. The atmosphere at work is unpleasant every day.

The company's office is beautiful.

The company has absolutely no systems or policies whatsoever!!!

There are no benefits at all, not even holiday bonuses for the three major traditional festivals!!!

The job posting on 104 says there is a health examination, but there isn't one at all. For the most part, they trick people into accepting the job and then resigning!!!

You apply for position A, but after being hired, they transfer you to position B (a job you are not familiar with).

Then they say the company wants to save money and fire you!!!!

The boss also practically yells at employees in the office. The work atmosphere is extremely unpleasant!!!

Many food options nearby

1. Layoffs

--- At least four employees, both senior and junior, were laid off before the Lunar New Year on the grounds of being unsuitable for their positions.

--- Employees were laid off on the afternoon of the company year-end banquet.

--- An employee was laid off after only three days on the job, without even having met anyone from management.

2. Business trips

--- The daily business-trip allowance is US$15, which is not even enough to cover meals.....

--- No additional pay is provided for working on Saturdays.

--- No overtime pay. Only after 15 consecutive days on a business trip can you exchange them for one compensatory day off; otherwise, none is provided.

--- Employees’ return-to-Taiwan dates may be changed arbitrarily. This year, an employee almost could not return to Taiwan for the Lunar New Year.

--- Business-trip expenses are not credited until nearly two months later.

3. Salary

--- Lower than the industry average.

--- Pay is issued only on the fifth working day of each month; when there is a public holiday or weekend, payment is actually delayed....

4. Job duties

--- Job duties are reassigned arbitrarily. An engineering manager may end up being put in charge of the marketing department.

--- Instructions are given at noon, with documents required by the end of the workday, only for them not to be reviewed afterward.

--- Submit a PDCA report every day. Once you write down the know-how, just wait to be laid off!

The view from the Zhonghe office is very good

There are many lunch options nearby

The reviews from the previous few floors are quite accurate....

This company is a good place to stay for a while during a career transition, but it is somewhat difficult to stay for the long term

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1. Average salary

2. High turnover among new employees (currently, the average seems to be less than 3 months)

3. No overtime pay or compensatory leave in Taipei; 15 days of business travel to mainland China are exchanged for 1 day of compensatory leave

4. Management system.....

5. They often call you into meetings during lunch breaks or 10 minutes before the end of the workday. Meetings usually last 2 hours, and documents or drawings are required the next day after the meeting

None

All decisions are made by the chairman alone, and as soon as you join, they tell you that, to prevent the clients you develop from conflicting with the company’s existing clients, you first need to let him check your personal prospect list. Do you think I’m stupid? If I let you check it, wouldn’t it be faster to just sell you the client information directly? Arrogant and extremely rude.

The company’s interior is very new; I wonder if they just moved here.

The position I interviewed for was, just like that other person’s experience, an IoT PM role.

In other words, I only registered an account to share my experience because what that person posted was so similar to what happened to me a few days ago.

There was very little information on 104, so I thought I’d go to the interview to learn more.

Basically, after HR led me into the meeting room, I started filling out forms and taking a short test.

Then I interviewed directly with the chairman......................At that point alone, I knew the result probably wouldn’t be good.

At first, he asked me to introduce myself, then asked whether I had ever written an app. I said I hadn’t.

I thought to myself, “That’s strange—isn’t this an IoT PM position?”

Later, he asked, “Have you ever worked on the cloud?” I thought to myself again: “Damn, isn’t it written on my résumé???”

In the end, I was also relieved that the chairman straightforwardly said I wasn’t very suitable, so I was able to get it over with quickly.

A complete waste of time. What was written on 104 and what this chairman actually needed were completely different.

It was only after I left the company that I remembered: from the moment I went in until the interview ended, this guy never once looked me directly in the eye.........

Going to the interview was quite a waste of time. I suggest anyone planning to go think twice................

The company office is beautiful… it has wooden flooring… and windows… I personally really like wooden floors… without windows, it would feel very stuffy… That’s probably about it……… (helpless + wry smile) Haha 😂

Interview process:

1. After arriving at the company, the HR representative didn’t show up. Someone who clearly had no idea what was going on came over and handed me a test paper to complete.

2. After I finished, I waited for who knows how long before finally entering the office of one of the directors for the interview.

Interview for the IoT PM position

3. After I went in, he asked me to introduce myself, but it felt like he wasn’t listening.

4. He said he wanted to find someone to maintain the content on the website. When he saw that I knew Photoshop and Illustrator, he said the company’s graphic designer worked very slowly and hoped I could help the designer as well. (Seriously? Am I interviewing for a graphic designer position or a PM position? No matter how much you try to stretch the connection, this is still a planner’s job, isn’t it? Besides, I applied for “IoT.”)

5. I asked whether there were any other PM-related duties besides those things. He said that was the job: assisting the PM supervisor in carrying out the work. (A completely forced connection.)

6. He said my English was very good and asked whether I could help translate the website content. I reluctantly said yes, but since I’m not a native speaker and the website content is technical and specialized, I suggested hiring a translation company and having me help verify that the translation matched the company’s intended meaning. He then started saying:

“Your English isn’t that good? You can’t translate it?”

“I didn’t say I couldn’t. I’m just saying that I can’t reach the native-level standard you mentioned. I’m not a foreigner.” (You might as well ask someone to start over from scratch—it would be faster, haha.)

(He got pushy again.)

“So you can’t translate it?”

“…Then hire a translation company. I already said I can translate it, but the translation company is what you need if you want native-level quality. If you don’t require that level, I can translate it.” (Holding back my anger.)

7. After repeatedly being pushy and pestering me, he asked me to introduce myself in English. I started speaking, and it felt like he still wasn’t listening. This time, he interrupted me after just three sentences.

8. After interrupting me, he started talking again about the website content and graphic design work. I asked whether there were any additional PM-related duties. He said that was it, and said he wanted me to do marketing (in very broken English; I heard it as “mockup” 😂).

9. I asked, “What about the IoT responsibilities listed in the job description?” He asked me what IoT was. I explained the concept of IoT to him, and then he asked me again what IoT was (?). By this point I was furious and said, “Internet of Things. End of story.” He said their official website was online, so that was IoT. (Uh…bro, you’re amazing \^0^/)

10. He said their PMs and graphic designers weren’t good at English, so they needed someone to translate the official website. Does hiring someone and paying a monthly salary, labor and health insurance, and year-end bonuses for a year really cost less than hiring a translation company…? What is wrong with his brain…? Or was he planning to force someone to finish the translation within two weeks and then fire them quickly…? That’s possible. At this point, I could no longer hold back my anger and said that this was very different from what I had seen on 104, so there was no need to continue the interview. He immediately said, “OK.”

He didn’t even walk me out. Extremely disrespectful.

11. When I left the office, I made a point of telling the person who had received me that I had finished the interview. She only said “okay” and then went back to doing her own thing. I walked out the front door by myself, feeling completely furious.

Terrible company... applying for any position is a waste of time!