(總公司)南山人壽保險股份有限公司

The salary is good

At the end of May, I was hired through a staffing agency as a systems control personnel member at Nan Shan Life Insurance. We agreed that I would report for work on June 8. On June 7, I confirmed the exact reporting time with the staffing agency, but unexpectedly, they said the hiring process was still pending, and tentatively rescheduled it to June 11. I asked again on June 10, only to be told that the approval process still had not been completed and that they would notify me later.

So I’m just supposed to keep waiting and waiting and waiting—until the end of time?

Shouldn’t I be paid for the salary during the period of interruption?

A small number of colleagues are genuinely very kind and willing to teach.

1. The company is understaffed, and with the rush to launch SAP, the workload has increased significantly, leaving no room to catch your breath.

2. It is difficult to say whether the company atmosphere is good or bad. However, because everyone is extremely busy, there is no extra time to talk about things unrelated to work, so naturally there are no particularly strong personal bonds.

3. Those considering joining Nan Shan can consider going to stand outside the Nan Shan Building one evening to observe the company. Even at 9 or 10 p.m., the entire building is still brightly lit. Only apply if you can accept that.

4. Nan Shan's normal end of workday is 5 p.m., but from the day I joined until the day I left, I never left the company before 9 p.m. During the interview, HR will tell you, “The company does allow overtime claims, but they must first be approved by your supervisor.” Anyone considering working there should think carefully!

Basically, I never claimed overtime. It wasn't that I didn't want to; it was because when I first joined, a senior colleague taught me how to clock out in the system and told me, “When clocking out, select ‘non-extended working hours’ and do not claim overtime!” As a result, I contributed more than four hours of free labor to the company every day. Moreover, when I left after 9 p.m., there were still many people in the department; I was already considered an early departure.

If you can accept all of the above, Nan Shan may be a good choice. However, I have essentially already made my escape. There are still many things to do in life, and no one will thank you for working overtime for free for the company. After work, I would rather spend my time learning things unrelated to work or developing a side business. Life is actually still beautiful. :)

When the general affairs and procurement supervisor travels abroad, they bring snacks for everyone. Occasionally, they treat everyone to dinner (but talk about work matters).

The working hours are excessively long (leaving work at 9 or 10 p.m. is the norm), and some people even work overtime on holidays (voluntarily).

New employees cannot claim overtime, while veteran employees can (unequal treatment). Supervisors regularly nitpick, give periodic motivational speeches, and waste everyone’s time. Positions remain open for long periods. It is recommended that you carefully consider things before joining (if no one has your back, don’t go), to avoid damaging your health.

The exterior of the Minquan Building looks nice

The position is for OOXX, with “Systems Engineer” to be added afterward, but the supervisor hopes the applicant can have more and more professional expertise to make it shine and flourish—and get promoted and rich.

During the interview, the supervisor gave disdainful looks and asked aggressive questions, answered impatiently, and had a self-righteous attitude.

Regarding all of my experience, he said he knew it all. He felt that I lacked professionalism.

It was probably close to noon, and the supervisor wanted to eat, so he did not really want to conduct a serious interview and just wanted to brush it off.

(He said nothing at all about the job duties, but I hope you can offer more professional expertise to help the company.

Preferably, you should have AI-related integration experience so that the company can grow bigger and stronger—this kind of nonsense. The supervisor would only say, “And then what?” )

All I can say about this interview process is that it was like someone who does not study forcibly asking you about the Analects, even though he has never read it himself.

He would even tell you that he understood it.

I recommend not wasting each other’s time.

Nanshan has all the advantages typically associated with a large company.

1. Stable employment: At the head office, it is not uncommon for employees to receive awards for 20 or 30 years of service.

2. Generous compensation: 13.5 months of fixed salary, plus performance bonuses.

3. It is one of Taiwan's top 100 companies.

4. The benefits are also quite good.

It also has all the disadvantages typically associated with a large company.

1. Simple tasks are made complicated, and the procedures are extremely rigid. For example, when a minor flaw occurs, instead of reviewing which parts of the original process need improvement, additional process steps are added. This leads to an enormous number of trivial tasks and endless overtime.

2. Digitalization is progressing very slowly. To comply with certain digital processes, even more manual work has been added.

3. Nanshan is a large company with a lot at stake, so managers are very afraid of making mistakes and prefer to stick to the old ways.

4. Each manager has different preferences. If your project has to pass through many managers, it is entirely normal for it to be completely overturned and redone two or three times.

5. Whether you are allowed to report overtime depends on which manager you happen to work with.

You are placed by a staffing agency. The work is straightforward; you only need to learn how to key in data.

If there are problems with the data, other people handle them. The senior colleague nearby is very dedicated to teaching and waits for me to finish taking notes.

There are too many requirements for work attire, and you already have to spend money buying clothes before even starting the job.

The salary is low. During recruitment, they stated the salary including the perfect-attendance bonus, and there are no other allowances. You also do not receive the holiday bonuses or year-end bonus because you have not been employed long enough.

After finishing your tasks, you are not allowed to do your own things. You cannot use your phone, access the internet on the work computer, or chat with colleagues.

You cannot look tired at work, even if you are an internal data-entry employee and are wearing a mask.

Even though they clearly wanted to fire you, they still had to find a reason, saying that you looked weak and had poor stamina.

After I had learned the work, I was fired immediately.

It's a company.

I heard the year-end bonus is 16–17 months' worth, but you'll have to work yourself to the bone.

1. Overtime is normal, because the longer you've worked there, the higher your year-end bonus will be.

2. You can apply for overtime pay, but your year-end bonus will be reduced accordingly.

3. Getting off work at six is normal; the actual end of the workday is after eight.

4. The base salary is low because they promise you a very high year-end bonus (the sorrow of Taiwanese companies).

Nanguo Life Insurance, Zhongx branch: discreet, very discreet.

Strongly recommend not going.

If you want to experience having coworkers old enough to be your parents, and working overtime as if the company were your home, there will still be people working overtime at the company at 9 p.m. every night. The person in charge there is extremely self-centered and also very good at shirking work—if it can be pushed off, they push it off; if they can emotionally manipulate you, they do. Please, if you want to freely enjoy the benefits mentioned above, then go for it.

There really are none.

I recently graduated, and as soon as I joined, three people resigned. Handover was basically impossible; they just told you to figure things out yourself. Having a handover was the same as having no handover at all. Everyone was carrying a huge workload, and it was simply impossible to finish everything. After working four hours beyond the maximum limit stipulated by the Labor Standards Act, I would connect through VPN and continue working remotely. They said that the previous person had worked until 3 a.m. Please—just because you choose to be a corporate slave doesn't mean everyone else has to be one too. After I worked overtime for three consecutive days, my supervisor came to “check in” and told me not to report it, saying that I was still on probation and shouldn't work this way. Hearing that was infuriating. From the moment you join, you can already foresee that you'll resign three months later. What difference is there between leaving after one month, three months, or five months? Get out quickly—staying alive is more important. Please, if you value your life, don't join. It's more or less the same in every department, and the turnover rate is extremely high. The entire company is just an empire of terrible jobs. When I submitted my resignation, HR wasn't surprised or interested in how much work I had done. They just went through the standard questions and said, “Let's proceed with the process!” You can probably tell that this company is basically used to churn through employees. The reviews online are all true—believe me, and whatever you do, don't come to this company.

Slow pace. After SAP went live and Mr. Tu left, the company recruited many former Nanshan employees to return.

Bureaucratic and uninterested in running the business, only wanting to go public. The boss has authority but seeks to appease people, so the company is controlled by shameless people who dare to speak but are unprofessional.

They want to undergo digital transformation, but the entire IT department is severely disconnected from top to bottom. They are arrogant and conceited yet unable to produce anything, and outsourcing vendors in the industry all know about it.

Many people are just going through the motions at work and cannot keep up with the times, resulting in poor efficiency.

If you want to retire, there is no problem staying here until retirement.

I honestly can't think of any advantages.

I received a phone interview from the headquarters. The department manager and HR seemed eager to get someone hired (trying to force a square peg into a round hole), saying they could provide a medical examination and credit report first. It was truly an eye-opener.

It's perfectly normal for job applicants to ask about company benefits, right? Yet HR just tossed out, "A big company has everything it should have." Later, they seemed extremely annoyed by my questions and came across as highly unprofessional. I suspect the receptionist was forced to handle HR duties—ridiculous.

In summary, definitely don't apply to this company. Don't waste your valuable time.

HR is very friendly and easy to communicate with, and the company environment is good.

The interviewer kept using their phone during the interview, which felt very unpleasant. During the interview, they seemed to have predetermined ideas about the job requirements and the answers to the questions. It felt like any answer that did not include what they wanted to hear was not considered acceptable.

Benefits were not discussed.

The interviewer was very friendly at the beginning, but was interrupted several times by other work matters during the interview, which made the interviewee feel very awkward. That alone would have been one thing, but the key point was when they asked whether I could work overtime. Because of the launch of a new system, they said I would have to work overtime until nine or ten every day. I replied that working overtime every day might not be possible, and their attitude immediately changed. They directly told me to leave and did not even see me out... I was truly dumbfounded.

The senior boss in the investment department is a very nice person, and the department manager is not bad either. There are opportunities to learn.

There are opportunities to learn, but basically, because new hires have so many miscellaneous tasks, they have no time to learn during working hours and are expected to work overtime on their own, because the senior employees work overtime too!! This is called normal, got it?

Impressions: The senior boss in the investment department is very nice, and the other bosses are not bad either, but the work is simply extremely demanding. The salary is not top-tier in the investment industry, yet sadly HR only says that we are at the industry average. However, the top boss requires employees' abilities and output to be aligned with international standards. Overtime is the norm, and not receiving overtime pay is also the norm. Even HR often works overtime, so what do you think? Basically, you need to have passion for the work to stay here in the long term. Otherwise, the salary is acceptable, but the workload is heavy, the hours are long, interaction among colleagues is limited because everyone is busy, and opportunities for advancement are limited. Salary increases are limited, there are only so many positions, and you also have to work hard, put in overtime, and work hard to please your superiors to have a chance. There are just a tiny bit more days off than at general companies. Taking leave should not be too difficult, although your colleagues may make sarcastic comments about it, so you need to maintain a balanced mindset yourself.

Overall, it is better than some but not as good as others.

Good benefits

The supervisor does not like to manage things. High-pressure policies. Unlimited overtime without paying overtime wages. They do not like employing night-school students and believe that only employees who can come in for overtime on Saturdays and Sundays are good employees.

None

There was a male HR representative who was extremely conceited and had a very poor attitude during the interview.

Being tricked by them into providing data

A fake job opening—they weren't actually hiring at all, just making up a bogus position. Even when they notify you to come for an interview, the HR representative is only trying to obtain information about your current company.

Fake job opening, tricking people into attending interviews and then telling them the position has been closed.

HR Ms. Liang seemed sincere, but was full of lies. She told me over the phone that I had been hired and asked me to prepare a bunch of things, but stubbornly refused to provide an offer letter. In the end, she notified me by email that the position had been closed. Terrible!!!

Fake job opening, tricking people into attending interviews and then telling them the position has been closed.

HR Ms. Liang seemed sincere, but was full of lies. She told me over the phone that I had been hired and asked me to prepare a bunch of things, but stubbornly refused to provide an offer letter. In the end, she notified me by email that the position had been closed. Terrible!!!

The best part was getting to see the corrupt face of the elderly interviewer.

A typical bloated braggart with nothing substantial to offer. The entire interview was spent boasting about how big their company was, yet they couldn't even hire a young person with insurance experience~~utterly pathetic.

There were two interviewers, one from HR and one manager, both over 50. No wonder they're so old-fashioned.

Exactly the same as the swimming association—same appearance, same attitude.

With the rollout of the new system, staffing at both headquarters and branch offices has been drastically reduced. It is perfectly normal for one person to do the work of two, while the remaining senior employees who cannot leave struggle to keep things going. One person’s success is built on the suffering of many; mid- and senior-level managers climb the ladder and prosper on the blood and tears of frontline employees. If you can go somewhere better, why choose this place? Think about it for three more minutes—your life could be very different.

Violates the Labor Standards Act and takes no action whatsoever.

Supervisors make it clear that overtime cannot be reported.

The internal workplace atmosphere is noisy, chaotic, and selfish.