信義房屋仲介股份有限公司

1. Very stable (there were no layoffs even during the pandemic, and it was very convenient to purchase alcohol and masks)

2. Leave scheduling is quite flexible at some branches, while at others it depends on the manager (for example, at some branches in a certain Taipei area, some branch managers would "control" which days secretaries could take off and prohibit weekends, etc.)

3. Most secretary colleagues are friendly and supportive, though a small number still engage in "unreasonable criticism over trivial matters" (for example, a secretary may be scolded because the branch carpet is facing the wrong direction, even though many colleagues and managers enter and leave the branch without anyone noticing?)

4. There is a department dinner every month, or someone treats everyone to drinks each month (varies by area)

5. The longer a secretary has worked there, the more "special leave" they receive (8–12 or even 15 days off per month is possible)

6. The company does not discriminate against single parents or mothers with children

7. There are many types of benefits; secretaries receive a year-end bonus as well as virtual currency (better than YongX)

1. Branch secretaries have an enormous number of duties. The job is not limited to handling the administration of their own branch; the workload is disproportionate to the salary, and the people and circumstances that must be adapted to differ from branch to branch.

2. The workload and difficulty increase year by year, but salaries are not adjusted annually. You might work there for six years without ever receiving a raise (you can only wait for government-mandated salary increases).

3. Secretaries handling special assignments need to be extremely mobile. They must cover their own fuel costs when traveling for appointments, and business staff may also treat them as branch secretaries.

4. Some branches are very far from home, so commuting takes a long time and requires riding a scooter or driving yourself.

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So heartless

You’re supposed to be a doorman as a profession

Your executives actually spent nearly 10,000 dollars on one meal. It felt so relaxing; I highly recommend the alpha waves. It might seem okay when I show it to you, but seeing it in person is incredibly shocking. If you’re depressed, print it out and put it in a picture frame.

The first time the whole family went to Singapore, we encountered two dogs along the way and also completed the must-see and must-eat attractions to the limit! One meal actually cost nearly 10,000 dollars. Usually, when you arrive at an attraction, someone will help take your photo. In the end, we wandered around the shopping mall for more than two hours. There was no prize draw or punishment.

Be careful not to be sent back to the starting point and turned into a museum, a claw machine for tourists. It even includes Xbox Game Pass, delivered to you via Uber Eats. Leave the zoo at three or four o’clock, with voice-over narration, because of the hotel shuttle’s location; there won’t be any issue with bad promotional prize draws.

Would you want to go take a look? If you happen to pass by in six months, be sure to give it a like.

This is the legendary airplane graveyard. The climate is dry and the terrain is hard. It won’t be marketed; it’s covered in bruises, and is specifically used to park a bunch of old airplanes. Lined up in a row, they look like a cult and a virus—more chaotic than the An Lushan Rebellion in history. Whenever there’s nothing to do, they raise flags only to be proven wrong, as frequently as getting a haircut. They send a bunch of hieroglyphic emails, like rusted parts and coins. A bunch of newcomers are forced to follow along and break their bones. Every day there are live broadcasts of dirty jokes and unpleasant music. Congratulations, you’re the 3,000th person to hear this.

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The manager conducting the interview was very rude

You can learn a lot, the company culture is positive, and colleagues get along well. The store managers are generally quite good. As long as you can deliver results, the salary won’t be too bad (if you can’t deliver results, you’re probably not suited to sales).

The district manager’s quality is poor and they like creating factions and engaging in internal conflicts.

Close to the MRT station

They don't fire people

The drawbacks are too numerous to list.

Performance reviews are all about whether your supervisor likes you;

contributing more does not necessarily mean getting a higher rating.

Instead, those who only know how to talk and flatter their supervisors have it easy.

You can choose to slack off together;

after all, the company doesn't fire people!

Whatever you do, don't let the company know what you're capable of,

or they'll simply make you do everything.

Remember to negotiate a higher salary;

otherwise, if you refuse to go along with the crowd, you're destined to have little room for growth~

Digital transformation, agile development, intelligent AI, and big data are all just talk.

They only spend money buying news coverage~

They set up a transformation office,

but it's actually a unit for succession struggles,

keeping a bunch of people who make little contribution,

while making things difficult for those of us in the original departments.

If you really want to get things done and grow your career, don't even consider this company!

The guaranteed pay of NT$50,000 for the first six months as a newcomer is real; the actual take-home pay is around NT$48,500. It’s very suitable for fresh graduates who want to enter sales training. The company has good benefits and thorough training, and you can learn a lot. If you complete the first month but decide you don’t want to continue, you may still have the opportunity to receive NT$100,000 as a career-transition bonus. Quite a few senior colleagues also earn NT$2–3 million a year, but generally it takes at least about five years to reach that level. It really is a good company!

The senior-junior hierarchy is very pronounced, and there are cases of senior colleagues taking credit for junior colleagues’ sales. The workday is 12 hours every day, with seven days off per month, and you’re on call even during holidays. However, working in real estate brokerage is inherently exhausting in the early stages, and not everyone can accept this kind of lifestyle. Be careful about safety when riding for long periods while fatigued; quite a few salespeople have been involved in traffic accidents during work.

Among real estate agencies, it is one of the most concerned with its reputation, the most systematic, and the most committed to training. All of its branches are company-owned, so the quality is consistent.

Even after leaving the company, I still prioritize using Sinyi when buying or selling a home.

The salary is very average, and they can't retain capable employees.

For the first six months, new employees are on probation, with a guaranteed base salary of NT$50,000.

It’s very suitable for recent graduates or people who want to learn about real estate-related information.

You really can learn a lot. The company’s branch managers, mentors, and senior colleagues are all pretty nice. If you have questions, they will teach you.

The company has plenty of resources and lots of advertising, with company funding available for campaigns.

The company has an appraisal department for the properties themselves. If there are problems or concerns about a property, they simply won’t sell it, so you don’t have to take risks for certain bonuses.

When new employees join, headquarters requires them to undergo training and complete online courses.

The branch manager expects you to solicit listings and make sales, and demands results, so you start work at 9 a.m. and don’t leave until 11 p.m.

There are also other related courses in each region that you are required to attend, so the company has a lot of training.

You can learn a lot, but on the other hand, you are also expected to make money for the company, so sometimes you only learn halfway and work halfway.

There is no time to do things properly or finish them.

After becoming a regular employee, the base salary is NT$26,400. The most recent salary adjustment was made because the previous amount did not comply with the Labor Standards Act.

It’s actually quite pathetic: a listed company that calls itself a happy enterprise only raised salaries because otherwise it would have violated the Labor Standards Act.

The bonus system is also the lowest in the industry. For a NT$10 million property, your sales commission is NT$20,000. Earning that NT$20,000 requires a great deal of time and effort, and even then, a sale is not guaranteed. Even after a sale is completed, the contract can be canceled, and there may also be legal issues.

Real estate properties are worth tens of millions of Taiwan dollars, but the bonuses are pitifully low. Still, it’s better than some and worse than others.

When you make no sales, the base salary plus group bonus still comes to NT$30,000.

So in fact, after becoming a regular employee, you can also work from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and be a low-paid civil servant. After two years, the company will eliminate you.

There is an evaluation every three months, and you can also be demoted. It’s really damn ridiculous.

Even if you become a branch manager, if your performance is poor, you will still be demoted back to a sales position.

Both headquarters and the branches love holding meetings. Meetings every morning and evening take an hour each—it’s seriously fucking stupid.

It’s a complete waste of time. If meetings generated sales, everyone could hold meetings from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. and then go straight home. That would be great.

The company also loves making you wear a suit in the middle of a hot day and gather somewhere to watch the executives from headquarters give speeches. They all talk about ESG, yet they make everyone wear suits in the blazing heat and ride or drive there (adding carbon emissions and air pollution) to attend meetings. It’s really dumb. Wouldn’t online meetings be better? Do you have to gather hundreds of people together for you to be happy? Once every six months would be enough.

1. All benefits are provided. Women can take maternity and parental leave, and the company does not put pressure on them.

2. Most colleagues in the department and sales staff are easy to get along with and respect one another.

3. Comprehensive employee training.

4. Base salary plus bonuses (paid per case); when things get busy, the salary increases proportionally.

1. When there are many cases in the appraisal department, overtime is often required. The time pressure is extremely high.

2. The company is in business to generate revenue and close deals. As a result, the appraisal department often has to accommodate and compromise in the end. If you are someone who tends to hold firmly to your own values, it is recommended that you not apply.

3. Work is handled according to the company's operating procedures. Staying too long can easily leave you lacking competitiveness outside the company and limit your thinking. It is still recommended that you make good use of your time to pursue additional training on your own.

4. The division of work among appraisal departments in different administrative districts varies significantly, which can easily lead to gaps in work practices (to my knowledge, this is being improved).

5. Salary adjustments and promotions for staff roles are very slow, unless you become a people-managing machine.

1. Convenient transportation

2. No layoffs (so those who have stayed for a long time are people who can't leave)

1. Relatively low salary. HR will estimate an annual salary for you, but if performance declines, you may not receive even that number of months' pay.

2. Certain departments receive specific bonuses, but in the end you discover that they are basically just a way for senior management to reward certain departments.

3. Politics takes precedence over professionalism. As long as certain people say something, it is treated like an imperial edict—and in practice, it is one.

4. Digital transformation is just a slogan. The company's technology is behind overall, so you cannot improve your skills through your work.

5. Staff career planning consists of having you write reports. In practice, there is absolutely no training or development.

Stable annual salary increases; the company does not lay off employees

Very convenient location

The seniority system is deeply entrenched, and seniority and rank are often used to exert pressure

Outsiders interfere in professional matters without understanding them or knowing how to delegate or listen

The people attending meetings are not the ones doing the work; they talk as if it were painless because they do not have to do it themselves

The silo effect is severe, with clearly divided factions

“Agile” is often repeated as a slogan, but in practice it is used to cram more work into a two-week period

Staff support roles have few benefits—only those required by the Labor Standards Act

Disgusting

Claiming to be innovative in real estate technology and digital living

In reality, the systems are outdated, and cross-functional communication is extremely difficult

It is understandable, considering that this is a real estate agency where closing deals is the priority

But if the goal is merely to teach managers a superficial understanding and then proclaim a transformation and innovation

it will undoubtedly be a tragedy and is entirely unnecessary

Because the people who need to transform have never been the employees

but rather the managers’ mindset

To a company, employees are both assets and investments

If you buy more and more jet planes today but no one knows how to fly them, what good are they?

It may look like Scrum has been introduced, but if you only want to select and implement the principles that benefit you

it will be like trying to draw a tiger but ending up with a dog

The senior-junior system is severe, and veteran female colleagues resort to verbal bullying at the slightest opportunity

They desperately dump their work on new hires

There are many resources, but they are not in the hands of the people responsible for execution.

A place where politics overrides professionalism and respect.

Interview: From joining in 2018 to the present, interviews involve multiple applicants facing multiple managers (assistant managers, store managers, etc.) who take turns speaking.

Related questions include why you want to join Sinyi Realty and your goals in life.

Once you pass the interview, you basically get the job. Women have an advantage because they make up approximately 30% of the workforce.

Job: Tamkang University graduate, female, with over three years of experience, currently at the position of business specialist.

Advantages: Colleagues are willing to help each other; work starts relatively late (9:00 or 10:00), avoiding rush-hour traffic; colleagues are willing to teach; after the meeting, you can go out and handle your own schedule; there are team dinners; during the first six months, there is an additional NT$50,000, and if you decide during the first month that the job is not suitable, you can receive another NT$50,000 (NT$100,000 in total during the first month); the work contributes to society (although it still drives housing prices upward because service fees are added on).

Disadvantages: Because of information asymmetry, colleagues cultivate their own clients and therefore compete with one another. There have also been cases of senior colleagues taking leads from junior colleagues. Of course, colleagues are willing to help one another, but only to a certain extent; personal interests still come first. There are official rules and regulations, but they are merely written policies in name. Some colleagues in the same intake were assigned unsuitable mentors (the company assigns a business employee to guide and teach you), and some mentors do not teach at all. In addition, managers’ management styles vary greatly. Some managers favor self-management, while others are completely authoritarian. I went from a self-management environment to an authoritarian one—rotations within our district are very normal—and became extremely unhappy at work. It felt like a concentration camp. The manager could not accept other people’s opinions or ideas. In the past, several business employees tried communicating with this manager and argued with them, but were ultimately transferred to other stores, with no possibility of adjustment. However, some colleagues who transferred to other stores developed better because self-management suited them better; they simply needed time to become familiar with the new business area and product characteristics. Also, when you first join the company, there is indeed a honeymoon period during which new employees are allowed to leave at 6 p.m. However, after becoming a regular employee (which requires achieving a certain level of performance), in reality no business employee leaves at 6 p.m. Although the company claims to offer flexible eight-hour workdays, it is not actually flexible because other business employees do not leave early. If you leave early for a period of time, your manager will criticize you indirectly, making you uncomfortable. They expect you to demonstrate efficiency and performance, although both require time to build up, while also forcing business employees to work in the office even when there is nothing to do.

A good manager takes you to heaven; with a bad one, transfer to another store or resign as soon as possible.

Conclusion: Fresh graduates can consider this job as an opportunity to gain experience, but I do not recommend staying too long because it is difficult to change careers afterward—unless you are genuinely interested in working in real estate. You can indeed make money because the total prices of houses are very high, but I do not recommend staying for more than three years. In my current situation, I feel that I have learned most of what there is to learn and that there is not much more room for growth. However, changing jobs is not easy because store managers also started as successful business employees and were promoted. Although the head office offers management courses, managers tend to carry their previous management styles into their current roles, which are no longer suitable for people born in the 1980s.

Sales work is inherently highly challenging, so you should be mentally prepared before joining Sinyi. Unless you are going to be a secretary, as someone mentioned, going out to conduct sales activities and visit property managers is simply part of what real estate agents do.

Moreover, Sinyi only recruits people without experience. If you do not attend training or learn about the professional knowledge of this industry, how can you call yourself a real estate agent when you charge clients so much in service fees yet provide unprofessional service?

Compared with team bonuses, individual bonuses are of course higher. Everyone wants to make money, and there are only so many listings on the market, so it is perfectly normal for everyone to pursue the same listing together. Listing A is especially a race against time. There are senior colleagues who will teach you there (though of course not every one of them is like that), but you are also competitors. When they teach you, they are helping you out of goodwill, enabling new hires to adapt to sales work sooner. They do not get paid for spending time mentoring junior colleagues. Realistically, of course it is more important to focus on your own performance.

The NT$50,000 resignation allowance certainly is not something you can take for free; you have to meet certain requirements to receive it. But honestly, someone who comes in for a month, does not do much, and only wants to collect another NT$50,000 before leaving is not exactly a valuable employee to the company either. Rather than staying here hoping to “get” NT$300,000 without doing anything, you would be better off making good use of these six months to learn. Even if you do not plan to work in the real estate industry later, you can still acquire many skills that will be useful in the workplace in the future.

However, everything still depends on your own circumstances~

The atmosphere differs from branch to branch, but encountering a good workplace environment really does give you more motivation to work hard here.

If you want to get rich quickly through sales work, Sinyi is indeed a good place. But if you only want to collect the NT$300,000 and leave, I recommend not wasting your life and youth here.

The downside is that the working hours are really long... On my first day, I did not leave until nearly 9 p.m. The culture differs from store to store: some managers are okay with you leaving work early, while at stores with closer supervision, you will naturally leave later. Of course, your departure time should still be based on your work performance. If you cannot finish your tasks, you obviously will not leave early, but if you perform well this month, no one will say anything if you leave on time~

Very friendly and kind toward job applicants

Made me feel less nervous

They were also very thoughtful and gave me a bottle of “Happiness Water”~

The salary is fixed

HR was very friendly to the interviewee, and the entire interview process was very polite.

The 104 job posting says “Web Software Engineer,” but in fact they are looking for a full-stack engineer. However, the compensation they offer will make you want to cry.

Interview process:

Both managers were extremely late, showing complete disrespect for the interviewee.

They then made fun of the interviewee, rattling off a bunch of technical jargon as if they were very impressive, and finally said that maybe you would be better off becoming a designer?

I strongly do not recommend this company!

Taking part in many important events in people's lives

Meeting people with different personalities from all walks of life

Developing a broader and deeper perspective on people

You can earn money if you are willing to invest time and effort, but you need to take good care of your health

A real estate agent training school recognized throughout the industry, with abundant resources and comprehensive education

(Many people who joined at the same time and later left went to work for competitors

High pressure (I didn't have my period for half a year; I often arranged trips abroad or to other cities

As you see many of the struggles and dark sides of human nature, it's a very profound lesson in sociology

A customer-oriented service industry (I think it's downright ridiculous that you get penalized just because you say “it's okay” during a customer-service call

The commission is not as high as at competing companies

The atmosphere and the colleagues and store managers differ somewhat from branch to branch

Some place great importance on integrity and ethical principles, while others are, well, you know—when a tree grows tall, it must...

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Applicants for sales positions must go to the head office. Interviews are conducted in groups, and at the time, my friend and I did not enter the interview room until very late—close to five or six o’clock. Each person is interviewed by a different manager, who discusses your résumé, future plans, and so on. The situation varies depending on the manager conducting the interview. If you pass the first-round interview at the head office, they will tell you which branch to go to for another interview and a trial experience. You are paid for that day of trial work.

At my branch interview, the branch manager saw that I was a woman and invited me into the meeting room. Based on my résumé, the manager asked me many questions. Since my previous company was also related to real estate brokerage, the manager asked whether I would take customer information with me, about personal data protection laws, and similar matters, expressing concern that I might poach clients from a competitor and questioning my character. The manager then asked me to go home and wait for notification.

About three working days later, I proactively called the branch manager to ask about the interview result. The manager directly told me: “I had already told the head office that I didn’t want a female salesperson, but I don’t know why the head office still assigned you to our branch.”

After hearing that, I felt that Sinyi Realty was terrible! They wasted an entire day of my time on the head-office interview, then wasted my second day at the branch, and also questioned my character.

At first, they will flatter you about the company, saying things like, “We at Sinyi believe in trust and integrity.” After the training, they will even give you a book devoted to praising the chairman.

Although the monthly salary is quite high—NT$50,000—the company basically works you to death: forcing you to attend a bunch of classes, read a lot of material, go out to do sales, become familiar with building managers, and so on.

Basically, they squeeze NT$50,000 worth of value out of you.

They promote group performance, but everyone still competes for sales. For example, when you turn on your computer, you may find several people pursuing the same case. There is no sense of mutual assistance at all; it feels more like a dog-eat-dog environment—brothers to your face, fighting over money behind your back.

The advertisements say that when you leave the company, you will receive another NT$50,000 as a job-transition counseling allowance.

But they will use various little tricks to keep you from receiving it, and they make deductions here and there. Filing a complaint with the company is, of course, useless.

Still, I did receive the base salary. You can only treat it as spending time to buy a lesson. If you are thinking of going, think it through carefully—NT$50,000 is definitely not that easy to earn.