台灣三星電子股份有限公司

The Neihu office environment is fairly relaxed. The restroom is also reasonably clean.

There is a Starbucks downstairs.

On my first day at the company, I still remember that absolutely no one paid any attention to me.

I mean the kind of situation where it was as if an extra person had suddenly appeared beside them—

someone they didn’t know—and it simply didn’t matter.

Aside from colleagues who were familiar with one another chatting among themselves,

everyone else just buried their heads in their work.

The desks were arranged in rows,

so basically there was no such thing as personal privacy.

Computers had to be put away in the drawers at the end of the workday, or you would be reminded.

The supervisor also would not interact with you,

nor would they proactively ask you anything.

An externally appointed supervisor was treated like air;

subordinates ignored him and played on their phones during meetings.

As for the job responsibilities, no one provided any handover either.

The woman who was originally supposed to train me

seemed to smile only at handsome men.

Faced with such a complicated system,

I really had no idea how I was supposed to begin learning it.

With no one providing a handover while I was still expected to get up to speed,

and the person training me apparently afraid that I would learn,

I didn’t stay for very long.

Benefits, salary, and leave are all generally compliant with regulations. Benefits such as labor pension contributions and labor insurance follow Taiwanese law. Other than that, there are not many benefits.

However, the bonus system changes a lot, and the calculation method is frequently revised. The salary is not competitive.

The managers are all experts at finding fault, so don’t expect to slack off.

It is not really a foreign company; it is a puppet subsidiary established by Samsung in Taiwan.

The overall salary is pretty good, but you lose your competitiveness once you join. Only the old guard’s favorites receive good performance evaluations. Many of the old guard draw a salary without doing any real work and order employees to engage in all kinds of sycophantic behavior. When hiring, they only look for candidates who will not threaten their position in the company or their chances of promotion, or they insert their own favorites. Naturally, helping write school reports, making handicrafts, and taking care of personal errands outside the office are all common occurrences.