智邦科技股份有限公司

Easy to get hired, and quite suitable as a stepping stone to gain experience.

A beginner's village for newcomers to the networking industry.

The quality of applicants who get hired varies greatly. Maybe the company is really short-staffed, so they’ve simply removed the bar….

The salary is paid on time, and there is a lot of overtime (if you want to work overtime because you need the money).

Although it is a networking equipment company, the internal operations on the production line are very traditional, and management is also extremely rigid. Some supervisors seem to live in their own world… (self-satisfied, perhaps?). The company basically relies on foreign workers, and most Taiwanese employees cannot stay for long (line supervisors use performance deductions to force people to work overtime). The production equipment is outdated, and many cables are covered with layer upon layer of tape (I don’t know whether this means the company is reluctant to spend money or considers it a virtue to be frugal). Departments often shift blame to one another, yet the division of responsibilities and authority is also unclear. It is a very strange company.

For beginners, the hardware department is a decent place to build up experience (though it also depends on the department—there’s one where even the boss only knows how to talk). After honing your skills for three years, you can hurry up and leave~~

If you happen to interview with Associate Manager Li, Manager Li, or Manager Kuo, their departments are all pretty good, and you can build up very solid experience there...

But compared with other networking equipment manufacturers, the salary is only so-so~~

智邦 is practically the 程啟基 vocational training center......

A fixed 14 months, plus a profit-sharing bonus of 1–3 months’ salary.

There was once an announcement saying that the profit-sharing bonus would be paid in April and September.

But whenever the payment date approaches, a major shareholder steps in to block it.

The salary is supposedly competitive, but when you compare annual compensation, it falls significantly behind the industry average....

A bonus is paid every six months, called an MBO bonus.

For hardware R&D, the bonus depends on which customers the projects handled by your department are for~~ The better the account’s customers perform, the larger the bonus~

Each department is responsible for 1–4 accounts~~

If the customers handled by your department aren’t very profitable or there are no projects,

you’ll be loaned out to help another department’s account with its projects.

Then they get the bonus, while you do all the shitty work.....