曜揚科技股份有限公司

1. There is a snack cabinet (but everything in it is very healthy, so I never want to take anything)

2. There is an employee trip (but the subsidy is not much, and it depends on where the boss wants to go)

3. There are employee dinners (once every two months; you can't skip them, and they will definitely choose a day when everyone is available)

4. Two months' year-end bonus (one of the months is split into half-month payments issued at the Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival)

5. There is a profit-sharing bonus (depending on the department manager's and the boss's mood)

1. There are no rules or systems for the work; things change whenever they feel like it

2. Everything revolves around the boss

3. You work like a beast of burden, but your salary will not be adjusted; even after proactively asking, you will still be rejected

4. When someone resigns, the manager is not in a hurry to hire a replacement. Who does the work? Of course, you do

5. If you care about receiving your bonus and year-end bonus in full, remember to resign only after receiving them. Otherwise, once they know you plan to resign, they will use all kinds of excuses not to give them to you

6. You have to be able to accept the manager's psychological manipulation (PUA)

7. You have to be willing to run errands for the manager, such as buying things or paying bills

8. There is no overtime pay, but you will still be criticized for leaving work on time

9. The manager likes to ask you, right before the end of the workday, what you have to deliver today

10. There are fewer and fewer colleagues at the company; the people who remain are truly pitiful

11. It is a family business, and almost all of the long-term employees who remain have connections

12. The boss is the same as at Yaoxiang, but they insist on pretending externally that there is no relationship. The boss is completely biased; Yaoyang is treated as if it were in the cold palace

Position: Sales

1. Colleagues and supervisors are easy to get along with

Supervisors are very willing to mentor people without experience, and the pressure is not too great. This is very friendly for people who have just entered the information technology industry or are new to the workforce!

Sales staff also do not need to attend social events and drink alcohol everywhere. The work environment and clients are relatively straightforward.

2. The office is next to Nanjing Fuxing Station, so transportation is very convenient.

Most clients are in northern Taiwan, so you will not have to travel too far! The farthest is Taoyuan, but transportation subsidies are provided～

3. The basic bonuses, events, company trips, and year-end party that a company should provide.

1. The snack cabinet is often emptied almost immediately (?

2. The company culture is somewhat more traditional compared with American companies 🧐 -> Personally, I think this is a matter of perspective. You can get a general sense of it during the interview!

1. Monthly birthday parties with free food

2. Subsidies for overseas employee trips; domestic trips are basically free

3. Regular company dinners once every three months, with a limit of NT$600; supervisors pay for any excess

4. Guaranteed 14 months of salary per year, with an additional 0.5 month each for the Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival

5. You can learn some basic knowledge, and the company has a low entry threshold and is willing to hire graduates from non-related fields, making it suitable as a stepping-stone company

1. The company does not provide comprehensive training. New employees have to figure everything out on their own, resulting in extremely low work efficiency; if you make a mistake, you get scolded.

2. The turnover rate is high. Previous employees do not properly hand over their work, and there are no SOPs to refer to.

3. The company makes things difficult due to human factors. Supervisors have the final say, upper management does not empathize with frontline employees, and raising issues may result in you being questioned instead.

4. Supervisors treat everyone as if they were a recent graduate, regardless of whether they have experience.

5. There are major communication problems, but supervisors never think that they are the ones with communication issues. Instead, they question your communication skills and treat you like an idiot.

6. The annual salary adjustment is a sham. Performance reviews are just for show for the boss. Performance is discussed once every six months, but in reality, salaries are not adjusted, and the performance rating is grade B.

7. Work efficiency is poor, and cross-departmental coordination is very difficult.

8. Supervisors like to complicate things, yet think they have done nothing wrong; everything is blamed on frontline employees. (Catchphrase: “split it into two parts.”)

9. The salary and benefits will leave you very poor.

***10*** They ask you to resign early. After completing one year, the notice period for resignation should be 20 days, but they will ask you to hand over your work and leave on the same day, and will not pay you the three traditional holiday bonuses.

A reminder: If you are planning to resign, it is best to receive the bonus before submitting your resignation. The company may ask you to hand over your work and resign early in order to save on the bonus.

None

Before the interview, they ask a bunch of questions that require handwritten answers, many of which are repetitive. It makes you wonder whether your company has ever reviewed the questionnaire itself.

The interviewer had a very unpleasant expression and placed the materials upright in a document holder, so the interviewee could only see half of the interviewer’s head.

The person sitting across from me was extremely rude, and their tone was also very impatient.

There’s a birthday celebration every month.

Everyone gets a red envelope—awesome!

The team atmosphere is great.

Everyone is quite professional.

I can’t think of anything for now.

Free snacks and coffee

1. The flexible working hours in the software department are a sham. The flexible start time is 8:30–9:00, but if you arrive after 8:30, you have to report it to your supervisor. How is that flexible?

2. During a previous performance review, I was criticized for only wanting to leave work on time. Apparently, leaving on time is also a problem, while working beyond scheduled hours does not come with overtime pay.

3. The salary is very low; around 40K for a master's degree graduate.

Can't think of any

The supervisor forgets things himself and blames everything on others

Let me start by talking about myself. I just graduated this year, and because I’ve always enjoyed interacting with people, I want to work in sales.

This is also the first job I’ve applied for, so I was very nervous during the interview.

At the beginning, it was more or less the same as what the previous person mentioned: I filled in some basic information and took a test. I finished writing in about 40 minutes, and five minutes later, the interviewer came in. The interviewer may have noticed how nervous I was, so they immediately told me to relax and started chatting with me. We talked about my past school and part-time work experiences, what kind of company culture and environment I liked, why I wanted to move from southern Taiwan to Taipei to look for a job, and my understanding of the information industry. I was really worried that they would ask technical questions and that I would be doomed, but the interviewer said that for a sales position, they don’t really care whether your degree is in the relevant field.

At the end, they very seriously asked me why I wanted to work in sales and what strong motivation I had. When I was asked this question, my mind really went completely blank.

I don’t know what the final result will be, but during the interview, I could tell that the interviewer was a very energetic and approachable person.

I didn’t expect that.

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Cons

Originally scheduled for around three o’clock, I arrived early and ended up having to fill out a bunch of very boring information, e.g., basic information, an aptitude test, logic questions, and English translation.

The most ridiculous thing was being asked to fill out an interview record form. It contained a bunch of ridiculous questions such as: What work experience have you had? What positions did you hold? How did you feel about them? What did you like most about your coworkers? There were 11 major questions in total, each with another 2–3 questions. It was an interview, so why did everything have to be done in writing? The point is, after I finished writing, more than an hour had already passed!! And I had already filled it out carelessly. Afterward, the lady gave me a magazine to read and told me to wait. I waited for about 10–15 minutes, but she still didn’t show up!!! This company has absolutely no respect for job applicants—how good could a company like this be?? Later, I left without even having the interview. Think twice before going for an interview.

The engineers are united.

This is an SI company.

However, compared with the commonly understood type of SI company (一般 SI companies sell network products such as switches and firewalls),

this company sells its own products. As a result, what you learn here is different from what you would learn elsewhere (meaning that after learning it here, you will be 100% unable to use it if you leave!!).

The company does still take on some projects involving switches, firewalls, and the like (very, very few).

The company has systems in place (but promises are only for looking at, not for enjoying) and benefits (I think that even if they say something but fail to deliver, no one would dare say anything, haha).

As for the engineers at the company, you can only say that they are united—except for some colleagues (they push the blame onto others first, otherwise the BOSS will scold them).

The same applies to work handovers: since it is a handover, there should be both someone handing over and someone taking over (no one hands anything over, so you have to figure out how to take over yourself; if you do not take it over properly, they blame you for not asking. Even if you ask, they know nothing no matter how many questions you ask).

As for working hours, overtime is nothing unusual in SI companies. But here, overtime is mainly for showing the boss and supervisors, so it is a little special.

Simply put, this company only needs people, not brains, and does not need people who want to learn, because you can master its own products in one or two weeks.

Then you can leave. If you cannot do it, they can just find someone else anyway—the IT workforce is large ← that is the supervisor's mindset.

If you are an IT professional who hopes to learn things at an SI company, you would learn more by working on-site elsewhere than by working here.

A sincere recommendation. A sincere recommendation.

For engineers without SI experience, the salary in 2016 was roughly 32k–34k. If you want to learn technical skills, you need a strong desire and the right attitude toward learning (actively seeking guidance from senior colleagues, actively reading the company’s product documentation, actively looking for schedules and…etc.); otherwise, you’ll quickly have no idea what you’re doing every day.

The company’s power structure is roughly: the business team led by the boss > another software development company owned by the same boss > some marginalized business teams > the administrative team handpicked by the boss, slightly above > the engineering team.

So, if you join as an engineer, don’t worry too much that it seems like everything is the engineering department’s responsibility. Basically, just obediently follow the schedule and you’ll be fine.

Whatever the business team wants, give them a satisfactory timeline; whatever RD thinks is what goes. Don’t worry about product issues—after all, the product definitely has no problems. It is definitely not the customer’s problem, and it is absolutely not an issue with the business planning. Whenever something goes wrong, it is definitely the engineer’s fault; at most, replacing the person will solve it.

As long as you adopt the above mindset, you can enjoy going to work.