中山醫學大學附設醫院

If you enjoy a constantly changing work environment where you never know what task will land on whom each day, the Artificial Intelligence Center at Chung Shan Medical University Hospital can certainly offer a rich workplace experience.

Communication and meetings are highly valued here. Matters that could originally be confirmed quickly are often expanded into fairly lengthy meetings through extensive background explanations, sharing of experience, and follow-up discussions. As for whether there will ultimately be clear conclusions, assignments of responsibility, or methods of execution, that tends to depend more on colleagues organizing and interpreting things themselves. The same matter may also be discussed repeatedly; even directions that were originally settled may later be adjusted again.

In addition, there are many opportunities here to participate in external activities and public events. These include meetings, competitions, presentations of results, visits, business trips, and other occasions requiring someone to represent the organization. There is a chance that colleagues at lower levels will be asked to take them on. Even when a supervisor was originally expected to attend, responsibility may be temporarily reassigned to someone else, and this is not particularly uncommon.

From another perspective, you can indeed quickly accumulate considerable experience that you might not otherwise encounter in your original position. The scope of roles here is also highly flexible. The job title listed during the interview is more like a starting point for entering the organization and does not necessarily represent what you will actually be responsible for in the future. Once you are considered to have a certain ability or relevant experience, you may gradually take on more work of different kinds.

Therefore, if you dislike being restricted by a job description, hope to try a little of everything, and enjoy taking on last-minute tasks, responding quickly, and developing across fields, you are unlikely to find the work too monotonous here.

This workplace can also train your ability to read people and sense the environment. A supervisor’s mood is usually not difficult to detect from the atmosphere in the office, so after staying for a while, in addition to your original professional abilities, you will naturally develop the ability to judge when it is appropriate to communicate and when it is better to quietly focus on your work.

If you enjoy high variety and high stimulation, and do not have many demands regarding work boundaries, this place should provide a fairly “fulfilling” workplace experience.

If you place great importance on a supervisor’s emotional stability, sense of responsibility, division of work, and clarity of procedures, you may want to consider this workplace carefully.

A supervisor’s mood can sometimes directly affect the atmosphere of the entire office, and when they are not in a good state, the colleagues around them can usually feel it clearly. If you are particularly sensitive to sounds, emotions, or your work environment, adapting over the long term may require considerable energy.

Another fairly obvious issue is that the supervisor has considerable “flexibility” when it comes to attending external activities and assuming responsibility. Business trips, meetings, competitions, presentations of results, and other occasions that would ordinarily require the supervisor to represent the organization may sometimes be reassigned to colleagues at lower levels as the date approaches, and this is not merely an occasional occurrence.

For colleagues, this does increase exposure and provide opportunities to gain experience on the surface. On the other hand, it also means that some responsibilities that should originally be borne by management may frequently be shifted downward. Even positions that had little to do with leading teams in competitions or giving public presentations may suddenly be assigned related roles.

The allocation of work likewise lacks clear boundaries between roles. The actual responsibilities are not necessarily arranged according to the position for which you originally applied. Instead, work may gradually fall to whoever has relevant experience or appears capable of handling it. If other qualifications or experience are discovered during the interview, you may even end up primarily handling duties different from those of the original position after joining.

So if you place great importance on your career direction, or hope that your work content will at least be basically consistent with the position for which you applied, this workplace may gradually make you wonder, “What exactly is the positioning of my role?”

The management and decision-making styles also require adjustment. Some matters may be discussed in many meetings without ever resulting in clear standards; directions that have already been decided may also change again later. If you are accustomed to confirming requirements, responsibilities, deadlines, and methods of execution before starting work, you may spend considerable time repeatedly seeking clarification.

You should definitely ask about the overtime system during the interview. The actual work may require extended hours, but the system differs depending on the type of employment. For research assistants, if no overtime budget has been allocated, working beyond normal hours does not necessarily mean that you will receive corresponding overtime pay. Therefore, if working hours and compensation matter to you, it is best to confirm the overtime pay, compensatory leave, and actual procedures in advance, rather than simply asking, “Will overtime be required?”

When it comes to salary, do not look only at the total annual amount. Although full-time positions are presented with an annual salary, that figure may include bonuses paid during the three major holidays, so the stated annual salary cannot be directly divided by twelve to understand the fixed monthly salary. The actual amount received each month may not be as high as you imagine from seeing the annual figure, because part of the income is made up through those holiday bonuses; year-end bonuses, meanwhile, are calculated based on the monthly salary.

Therefore, moving from a research assistant position to a full-time position does not necessarily mean you will feel a significant increase in monthly pay. Sometimes it is more like having the total annual income redistributed and paid under different categories.

In addition, achieving results through competitions or external activities does not necessarily mean there will be a corresponding individual reward. Even if you invest substantial time in preparation, attendance, or taking on the primary responsibilities, related bonuses may be allocated to the organization’s public funds rather than paid directly to participants, and there may not be any additional bonus either.

Overall, if what you want is clear division of responsibilities, stable decision-making, a supervisor who steps up when it is time to assume responsibility, reasonable working hours, and a transparent, easy-to-understand salary system, it is strongly recommended that you ask more questions and confirm more details before joining.

In particular, do not look only at the job title and annual salary figure.

The job description in some places only tells you how to get in.

What you will be responsible for after joining, how much you will have to take on, and what you will ultimately receive may be completely different matters.

At the Chung Shan Medical University Hospital Artificial Intelligence Center, if you love meetings and writing functional planning documents, as long as you are willing to nod along and provide your supervisor with a bit of emotional validation at the right moments, then during a five-day workweek, you will have three afternoons when you can sit in a chair and focus on listening to your supervisor turn content that could originally be explained in ten minutes into a meeting lasting as long as an hour and a half.

In meetings, your supervisor will “thoughtfully” share some little stories they have heard to help you get into the context, but the functional details are always vague. In the end, engineers still have to come up with the ideas themselves and write the proposal. The proposal must include a feature list, time estimates, risk analysis, and so on—but don’t worry, it’s fine if it’s incomplete, because your supervisor generally won’t read it, and even if they do, they’ll forget it completely within an hour.

It is only when a clinical department raises a request for improvement or a major functional failure occurs that your supervisor will summon some of the engineers (注意：只有平日給足情緒價值的人才有資格參加哦 ^_^). The focus of the meeting is usually not the functional solution, but for you to listen attentively as your supervisor vents about external pressure and physical and mental exhaustion, so that you can deeply understand “how difficult and苦辛 it is to be a supervisor.” At about this point, the meeting can conclude smoothly, and the remaining work is naturally left to the engineers to debug themselves.

Don’t forget—this wonderful experience is not an occasional surprise, but a fixed appointment at least three times a week. If you aspire to become your supervisor’s thoughtful little helper and love listening to stories, this is absolutely the best stage for you.

In addition, if you enjoy making presentations, you absolutely cannot miss the opportunities here. The supervisor personally does not like taking on unpaid presentations, so they will “surprise” you by notifying you one to three days in advance about all kinds of presentation assignments for hospital visiting groups. Sometimes they will even tell you after work that you have to take the stage first thing the next morning. This will thoroughly test your ability to react on the spot and your work efficiency. As for overtime pay? Sorry, an overtime system is not popular here. You ask what to do? It’s simple—just quickly put together a presentation in an hour tomorrow morning. After all, life is about being fulfilled and full of surprises.

Therefore, my sincere recommendation:

If you long to grow beside such a one-of-a-kind supervisor, please bravely submit your résumé. You will definitely gain an unforgettable work experience here, and perhaps even find yourself never wanting to leave once you’ve settled in.

People who have too many ideas, too much of their own mind, or too much work experience should preferably not come here. Because what supervisors fear most is someone asking a question they cannot answer.

You have to understand—the person only comes to work because they want to hold meetings, show off their storytelling abilities, and casually make a few empty promises. That is their stage every day.

Imagine this: You are an engineer, yet you have to follow the directions of a supervisor who knows absolutely nothing about programming, while also waiting for them to tell you “to what extent this feature should be developed.” The problem is, they have no picture in mind at all and cannot understand what you are saying. At this point, if you insist on discussing the details, you are making things difficult for a supervisor who survives by smooth-talking.

So, if you are too serious, too professional, or too determined to do things well—sorry, you will live a very painful life here.

Think of that meme online: run away, fast.

The interview atmosphere was friendly, and afterward they continued to stay in touch and ask when I could have a medical examination. They also said that the personnel procedures were already underway.

In the end, they only sent a text message saying that the number of positions was limited. When I called to ask, they said that someone had originally been planning to retire, but later that was no longer the case.

They showed extreme disrespect toward the job seeker and went back on their word.