GARMIN_台灣國際航電股份有限公司

The company is new

The interviewer was extremely intimidating and gave off a very arrogant vibe. They were rude and looked like they hadn’t even read my résumé before asking me to come in. I won’t buy this brand again.

Can't tell

I don't understand 🤔 Are we operators ultimately responsible for product quality or 5S? Even after hiring a cleaning lady to clean, it's still not clean enough. Every day, we have to maintain cleanliness while also meeting efficiency and production targets. If we can't achieve 5S, production, and efficiency targets, we get criticized and scolded. May I ask whether we were hired as operators or cleaners? There are machines everywhere during operations, and if they're disturbed even slightly, something goes wrong with them. We're asked to clean, yet some items can't be brought onto the production line. Are we supposed to lie on the floor and scrape and wipe everything by hand? Why does doing this job require us to take on so many different occupations? (Cleaning ladies, please don't take this personally.)

A good supervisor and a good leader are what motivate people at work.

Could you please seriously look for people who genuinely want to work for the company?!

They clearly knew what the position involved from the start, yet made it sound so pitiful, saying they could accept either morning or night shifts. After joining, they started asking why they weren’t assigned to the morning shift but the night shift (seriously? You’re already in your forties. No matter where you work, you fill whichever position has a vacancy first). After coming in, they still didn’t learn seriously. Even after more than a month, they still don’t know what needs to be done at what time. If you said today that you had been reassigned somewhere else, it would be understandable if you didn’t know. But there are fixed tasks to do every day, and every day there are packages to handle, yet things are still being missed. They’re really a wage thief.

As if that weren’t enough, you haven’t even met the qualifications for becoming a regular employee yet. When others were discussing whether another colleague might be made permanent, or when someone else asked about it, what exactly were you running your mouth about? You even blurted out that it had already been decided. If it were already decided, why wouldn’t the other person just apply directly for a full-time position instead of starting as a dispatched worker? They aren’t stupid. Even if you’re jealous, there should still be limits. Someone without any sense of boundaries sees dirt everywhere. If this person hadn’t encountered a good supervisor and leader, and had these rumors been spread and presented as fact, damaging their reputation, they ultimately wouldn’t want to stay here either.

A decent environment and workplace, but recruitment by HR needs improvement

Some newly hired employees on the morning shift stay in their work areas scrolling on their phones the entire time. Even when others tell them not to keep scrolling, they continue doing it.

Everyone has urgent matters. People allow you to bring your phone because certain tasks require it—not so you can sit there scrolling and making phone calls, right?

Even when working together in the same group, they keep using their phones with both hands while carrying out the work. If they want to play that badly, could they please go back home and do it there?

They do not listen when others explain what they should pay attention to during the work. After upsetting others, they just respond, “Yes, it’s all my fault; you’re never wrong~!@#$%^&.” Is this a normal workplace culture? This is already affecting other people.

If they do not care about the job this much, why come here at all?

Please improve this kind of workplace culture.

Just because people make things convenient for you does not mean you can take advantage of it.

Poor 👎 review

At this company, operators are always scrutinized under a microscope. Once you offend someone, it never ends. They start nitpicking, and on top of that, every day you have to cater to the supervisor’s emotional behavior—isn’t that just being two-faced?

Where are the advantages?

SMT Quality Assurance

You have your responsibilities: ensuring quality and preventing defective products from being released is your job. You are truly working hard and risking eye strain, but just because you are good at identifying problems, that does not mean we should have to watch your expressions or moods. I don't know what you are acting so arrogant about. You even distinguish between levels: when you are in a good mood, you put on a pleasant face and are easy to talk to, but when you are in a bad mood, you respond in a very impolite and harsh manner. When there is a large volume of items to inspect, we still get criticized. You have your difficulties, but we also simply forward items to you for inspection according to the information provided. Yet you still throw a tantrum. You could tell your superiors not to inspect them and save yourselves this trouble.

Whenever an evaluation is coming up, you start looking for problems indiscriminately. That would be one thing, but every day a different person patrols the line, and each person has different standards: this is acceptable, but that is not. Every day, we are repeatedly asked the same questions. Is this company comparing people or holding a competition? Every day it is all about efficiency, efficiency, efficiency, yet we also have to guard against the QA staff. If you offend them, they start digging up a whole bunch of trivial issues and pointing out where the problems are. Why are we working at this Gami company—in order to read people's moods or to compete over efficiency? Although outside instructors have been invited to provide training, what has actually improved?

Clearly explains the benefits.

The HR manager is very arrogant and spoke about the interviewee as though they were terrible. Right from the start, they said that with contributions like this, they might as well look for an assistant worker. They kept going on about how capable they were while making the interviewee seem worthless. They even talked about the many people who had left the company for better places as if that were a strength of theirs. Then they worried that you might face setbacks in interviews elsewhere. How kind of them, haha.

Tainan plant

Follows the Labor Standards Act... that's it.

When operators are more capable than management and the maintenance team: success.

But when management and maintenance only keep themselves frantically busy: failure.

When those lacking ability can only pressure operators with their positions: failure.

Once you land a cushy position, enjoy it; once you fall into a crappy position, don't expect to be able to switch. Hopefully no one will ever leave. Failure.

When there is an NG problem, they won't look for the root cause; they'll only blame the operators. Failure.

Think carefully before going. Before joining, make sure you have what it takes to stay in a crappy position without leaving.

The company benefits are good

Overall, it complies with the Labor Standards Act

1. A certain department manager has poor management skills. The workload is already heavy, yet they still focus on regulating trivial details, such as requiring employees to submit travel requests in advance.

2. In theory, a manager should filter and prioritize work and provide direction. One manager only keeps expanding problems, has a poor grasp of employees’ work, and still requires employees to report everything themselves.

3. Don’t just respond to every problem with “Let’s figure it out together.” If I knew how to solve everything, I would be the manager.

Suitable for people who want to retire.

The environment is the night shift at the Linkou plant.

A one-man show.

Whatever the section manager says is considered right.

Even unreasonable things are considered right.

The team leader bullies the weak and fears the strong. When you respond politely to the problems you encounter,

if they think you are easy to bully, they will suppress you.

Only when you are not someone to be trifled with will they listen to what you say.

When I first joined, I saw the section manager allow production-line personnel

to take the quality-assurance stamp

and package products directly without any quality-control inspection.

Also, if you are a new employee,

they will pretend to care about you and then criticize you afterward.

If you are an ambitious employee, your hopes may be crushed

because the night-shift section manager is very incompetent.

Therefore, they like to promote people who are also completely incapable

but obedient.

They pretend to be busy in meetings every day, have volatile emotions,

and speak very rudely.

Therefore, the high employee turnover is normal.

If you are very capable, you will be asked to do things beyond your abilities.

If you have an opportunity to develop somewhere better,

he will speak of you as if you are completely worthless.

Even if you pursue development through the management-trainee program, he will deliberately delay it for a very long time

before allowing you to be promoted.

As long as he likes you, you can advance quickly through the promotion channels.

The foremen in the company are all very nice, but the team leaders and section managers

really need improvement.

I don't know whether it is because the day-shift supervisors cannot see these things,

but the atmosphere on the night shift is truly terrible.

They talk about a bunch of the same things in meetings

and hold meetings almost every day.

When the production line is very busy and rushed,

they keep hurling insults

with an air of superiority

that makes people very uncomfortable.

The supervisor of the SMT team on the fifth floor; the colleagues are very nice.

The night-shift team leader is very nice.

The supervisor has problems. When employees make mistakes, the supervisor keeps making things difficult for them, repeatedly tells them to resign, and verbally abuses them, causing employees too much psychological pressure. The fifth-floor SMT morning-shift team leader has very little self-restraint and will loudly scold people. The fifth-floor SMT morning-shift team leader works at the company while also selling things?

This kind of person makes money from the company!

1. Meal subsidy of 70 per meal

2. The environment is fairly clean

3. The shuttle service is also pretty good, but if you miss the shuttle, you're screwed

1. They only pay us an operator's salary, yet expect us to do things beyond an "operator's" duties.

2. The company only listens to office employees' opinions. Aren't operators people too?

3. The benefits the company provides to foreign employees are better than those for Taiwanese employees.

4. There are more unfriendly people than friendly ones throughout the entire company.

5. The break times are extremely rushed: 10 minutes each in the morning and afternoon, 40 minutes for lunch, and 30 minutes for dinner. There are always long lines when buying meals, and for those who smoke, the only smoking areas are by the back-door loading dock and on the 7th floor, so there's simply not enough time.

New hires who have normal logic and social skills at work tend to be quite humble and willing to learn, but some veteran employees who have been there for several years are very unwilling to teach. All they do is throw out a "go read the SOP." I know that reading the SOP before doing any task is the most basic thing, but frankly, did these veterans understand everything perfectly as soon as they joined? Some of the older women have extremely poor attitudes and even say that anyone who comes to work as an operator must have failed to study properly in the past. There is no distinction between noble and humble occupations—do they look down on themselves for being operators too? Everyone has a transitional period in their career, and everyone makes different choices. Do they really have to make sarcastic remarks? Then they fawn over the younger male specialists like crazy. Listening to them tease and flirt over there makes me want to puke. And they even dare to call themselves "older sisters"—given your age, you could easily be their aunt or even grandmother, okay? When a more capable new hire catches the attention of a group leader or supervisor, they become jealous, deliberately ignore them, and intentionally withhold information about things they could easily point out. You're already that old—aren't you being childish? Teaching new hires properly would also help reduce your workload, wouldn't it?

I have nothing against GARMIN's products; what I can't stand is the people, work, and management at the company. They use the name of an American company while practicing very Taiwanese-style management. No wonder no young people are willing to stay, capable employees never remain for long, and they're hiring all year round.

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Have you experienced the supervisor loudly berating people?

It happened on Friday in the testing area. I saw Supervisor Su-ling loudly berating someone, while everyone in the area watched. Later, when it was time to eat, the bell did not ring, but everyone knew it was time for a break and lunch. When the first one or two people went to eat, she loudly scolded them, saying, “Is it lunchtime now?” Some people ignored her, while others retorted, “It is break and lunch time now…” This was Supervisor Su-ling at the fourth floor of the Linkou Huaya Technology Park. She is definitely not the only one who berates people; others do so more subtly, depending on the situation and whom they are addressing. As for whether there is favoritism or mutual protection among supervisors, draw your own conclusions—you can sense and notice it yourself.

The company’s benefits and leave arrangements are very good. Employees are not made to work excessive hours, and overtime is not excessive either! Some recreational facilities are provided so employees can relax and exercise! The two-week new-hire training is also very considerate, and night-shift employees can receive two meals. Not every company can do that! There are no various hassles involving handovers with other shifts.

When you ask the shift leader a work-related question, they become impatient after the first time, and by the second time they act as if they want to kill you! Even if you are just a new employee, even if you sincerely want to do your job well, and even if you have a good attendance record and cooperate normally! Since the shift leader is impossible to communicate with, you have no choice but to ask your coworkers. If you make a mistake, you will be blamed for not asking the shift leader and instead asking a coworker who may have wanted to set you up! Because they are rushing to meet the pace, one person has to do the work of two or three people, so there is no patience at work. Whether it is your first time or you are simply unfamiliar with the task, if you cannot keep up, you are stupid! If you cannot understand what the shift leader is trying to express, you are hopelessly foolish! If QC audits you and finds something that does not meet standards, it is your problem—there is no excuse that nobody taught you! Some shift leaders clearly treat local and foreign employees differently. Their tone with local employees is always as if they have been struck by lightning, while everything is “OK” for foreign employees—unless you are very lucky and are that shift leader’s favorite. The shift leaders also have their own conflicts with one another, and if you are not careful, you can get caught in the crossfire. Perhaps because of this atmosphere, it is also difficult for coworkers to demonstrate team spirit. Work is merely about meeting targets, finishing the task, and avoiding being scolded; yield rate is secondary.

You need to be strong-hearted and able to endure whatever comes your way in order to keep going here.

Once you leave, you cannot return, even if the personnel management may become more mature in the future.

These are my past experiences working the night shift in Linkou.

1. The Linkou plant is very new, and the office is also quite upscale. Relations among colleagues are generally good, but it depends on the department. In some departments, people treat you very well at first, but as time goes by, you see their true colors....

There are two departments I don't recommend. If you have extremely high stress tolerance and can endure being humiliated, you can go.

1. The RD department's direct-report division, Auto OEM: after you join, the supervisor rushes you to meet deadlines. Acceptance is required within one month... No one asks about you or trains you; you have to figure everything out yourself.

2. Quality Assurance RMA inspectors... People there are very guarded and do not want you to ask questions or learn. If you cannot learn, they will humiliate and scold you in front of everyone.

........The above is my advice to newcomers: keep your eyes wide open.

The HR gentleman was very kind and conscientious, unlike the impatient, stern-looking HR ladies at many large companies.

The security guard interacted with the interviewees and encouraged them.

Tea and water were available.

Transportation expenses for the round trip between Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and the company were subsidized.

Before the interview, the hiring manager asked the candidate to prepare a report on a specific topic. After the candidate presented the report, the manager kept asking questions but did not explain the requirements or content of the position.

After receiving answers to the questions, the manager hastily ended the interview by saying, "Your abilities exceed the requirements of the position."

The questions asked of the candidate were precisely about the direction in which the company was "planning to develop."

It gave the impression that the company was using job applicants as inexpensive consultants.

Good salary and benefits

The new office is upscale

Good team atmosphere

Most importantly, it’s a company that knows how to respect people and has humanity

A bit far away in Xizhi

Transportation shuttles and accommodation are available as options, but you have to ask; HR will not proactively tell you.

There are 10-minute breaks in both the morning and afternoon (this is both an advantage and a disadvantage: the advantage is that you can openly rest by lying down; the disadvantage is that some managers force employees to rest only during the designated break times, and leaving your seat at other times will be scrutinized).

Lunch is provided. Employees who do not eat can use the allowance to purchase fruit and snacks.

The employees do not seem very happy, and they do not dare to speak freely. Everyone is very guarded when talking, and you often hear people saying things like “Be grateful to Ga Mi” and “Praise Ga Mi.” The entire company has a repressive atmosphere. The benefits are good, but turnover is extremely high. Many senior employees say that although the company offers the benefits of an American company, because of the Taiwanese-style management, many benefits are only there to be seen and cannot actually be enjoyed; they even become a burden. For example, a coffee machine, which should be a basic amenity in an ordinary company, is often out of coffee beans here. If you go to another floor to get coffee because supplies are unavailable, you may even receive dirty looks. The atmosphere among employees is even stranger. Many managers started from entry-level positions and have seniority but insufficient ability. They want to use capable employees to assist them, yet fear that their own abilities will be overshadowed. There are countless cases of highly educated and experienced employees being forced out soon after joining the company under various pretexts. There are many training sessions and new-hire presentations, but the evaluation criteria depend entirely on the manager’s mood. There are also many senior employees who lack ability but like to provoke others, which reminds me of a group of puppies that are terrified their bones will be snatched away.

It seems to regard TSMC as a competitor, but it is far behind... HR also treats you differently depending on your department; when they hear that you are a U-town employee, their attitude becomes much better.

“Advice for fresh graduates”: This job can give you a high starting salary, but if you stay for more than a year, you will basically be brainwashed and assimilated. You will develop a timid personality that will be detrimental to your future career.

“Advice for experienced job seekers”: Experienced job seekers are easily ostracized at this company. They may even use many unreasonable rules to convince you that you are useless, so think carefully before joining.

Personal leave is not deducted from pay, and meal subsidies are provided.

The training process for a certain SW team in Xizhi is highly unreasonable. The credibility of the female manager's statements—whether concerning trivial work matters or professional knowledge—is often questionable. The work atmosphere is poor, and the turnover rate is also not low.

Additionally, although accommodation is provided, it is actually a family-style floor rented externally for employees. The quality is generally not very suitable, so this should be carefully considered.

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The job posting and requirements are just for show!!~For the past 2 months, I’ve applied and submitted my résumé every week (also stating my strong interest), yet they always read it and never reply!!!!!!