躍獅影像科技股份有限公司

1. There are no projects and no supervisor at the company. The workload is not heavy, and working hours are normal.

2. The colleagues get along very well.

1. The elderly owner couple are confused in their reasoning and constantly change their decisions, making it difficult for employees to know how to proceed.

2. Except for the Administration Department, most employees have been with the company for less than three months. The turnover rate is excessively high even by design-industry standards.

3. Meetings are frequent, but their content is entirely meaningless. They mostly consist of the boss showing off personal connections and achievements from ten years ago; however, not a single employee who created those achievements ten years ago is still with the company.

4. The company does not value talent. The boss views employees as replaceable parts, even though talent is the most important asset in the design industry.

5. The boss likes to suddenly text employees at eight or nine o’clock at night, on a whim, demanding that they work, even though the tasks are neither urgent nor reasonable.

6. Those preparing for exams, pregnancy, or studying abroad may consider this company as a place to stay during a career gap. Anyone who wants to witness the extraordinary spectacle of Taiwan’s design industry may also consider joining.

1. Since there are no projects currently underway under contract this year, the workload is lighter, and I can leave and arrive at work on time.

2. It operates as a small company with no management layers, so I report directly to the owner.

1. Reportedly, this company had a glorious period 10 years ago. At that time, its situation was indeed as described on 104, but it no longer matches the company description on 104. All members of the management team have resigned or been laid off. The owner is now handling alone the work previously done by the heads of all the departments (business development/design management/organizational management, etc.). The management style is chaotic, with frequent abrupt changes in direction. In addition, the owner is advanced in age and often forgets things or fails to understand what employees are saying. The owner does not acknowledge mistakes and instead uses harsh words to mock employees, such as criticizing them for being unprofessional or lacking common sense. In fact, the misunderstanding is the owner's own.

2. During interviews, the owner uses persuasive rhetoric to create the impression that the company has many projects about to be undertaken. Only after joining do you learn that there are no projects currently underway under contract this year. The assigned work is to produce an internal company product, but later you discover that this "internal product" has already gone through several versions over the past 7–8 years, essentially being remakes with no substantive change.

3. During the interview, the owner says that the company values originality, prioritizes designers' ideas, and works in collaboration with the creative director (the owner's spouse). After joining, the situation is completely different. First, the designer can only follow what the creative director wants to do and acts merely as a draftsman. Second, the creative director does not actually value originality, but copies character designs, story structures, and other elements from other works, makes slight changes, and turns them into their own "design." When it comes to professional matters, however, the creative director either ignores them or disrespects professional advice. Third, project execution has serious problems. The creative director and the owner often have completely opposing opinions, but during meetings neither is willing to decide on a direction. Furthermore, while carrying out the work, the direction was confirmed with both of them at the 50% and 80% progress meetings, and there were also multiple internal discussions. Yet at the 90% meeting, they proposed opinions pointing in the complete opposite direction. The reason was that the two of them could not imagine the 100% result, but treated the 90% stage as the final completed result, leading to extensive rework. In the end, the creative director blamed the entire issue on the employees brought in by the owner. As an employee, you can only become completely disheartened, which is why the turnover rate is extremely high.

4. I will not elaborate on other more trivial shortcomings, such as the computer data management structure. In conclusion, the company is completely disorganized and chaotic. I recommend that young people with ideals, ambition, and passion need not consider this company, as it is already in the late stage of its corporate life cycle. I hope the above is helpful.

The work is very relaxed, and there is often nothing to do.

The company has an extremely high turnover rate; every three to six months, a new group of people replaces the previous one.

The reason is that the boss is advanced in age, is not very clear-headed, and acts impulsively.

The company claims externally that it has dozens of employees and annual revenue of over 100 million,

when in reality, there are often no projects to work on, leaving employees with nothing to do;

some take leave, while others scroll on their phones or watch videos, and then the boss suddenly gets in a bad mood and finds a reason to tell you not to come to work anymore.

Because of the boss, we also often have to do repetitive work that wastes time.

The boss sleeps and watches movies during work hours, or gathers everyone in the conference room, saying that there is going to be a meeting.

In reality, “having a meeting” means listening to him talk about irrelevant things, with no benefit from the meeting at all.

The boss does not have a professional background, but neither does he respect expertise, and he often boasts about how capable he is.

In reality, as long as you flatter him and praise how impressive and capable he is, you can survive smoothly at this company.

Playground design-related work (mainland China side)

Few employees. The company members generally lack professionalism (there are no architects or professionals with relevant certifications). Overtime is compensated with time off (in 2016, this led to a vicious cycle of working overtime in order to make up for the time off). The designs do not take any regulations into consideration. There are fire safety issues.