Some frontline employees are good.
The negative reviews found online are basically all true. I reluctantly recommend that fresh graduates join this company to gain work experience. I don't recommend it for anyone else, lest they waste their lives.
Free commuter shuttle buses and incredibly awful lunches
Because most people in the company have terribly poor English skills, the language bonus is quite generous
With a TOEIC score of 400, you can get an extra NT$1,000 per month
Absolutely ridiculous
If you hear keywords such as the Philippines or Dyson during the hiring process, or encounter a short-haired female manager who is thin and has small eyes, decisively give up on the position. New employees are treated with every possible form of care when they first start, but as soon as they realize you can work independently, an endless stream of tasks will follow. In the end, you work overtime every day without seeing any indication that upper management wants to improve things. Most internal emails are communicated in English, but most people’s English is as terrible as shit. They only know the technical terms needed for work; whenever they need to say a complete sentence, the grammar is a complete mess. There are even managers who cannot score 700 on the TOEIC bragging to you that their English has become very good because they frequently communicate with factories and customers in the Philippines. They have no idea that Filipinos’ English is also far from okay. Staying in this environment for too long will only make your English worse. It is incredibly embarrassing. Since everyone’s English is so poor, no one can actually teach the Filipinos well. They can only let them produce piles of garbage every day for the Taiwanese employees to clean up, while we are already extremely busy and still have to answer a bunch of calls every day asking us to solve the factories’ idiotic problems. On top of that, the manager has serious emotional-management problems and refuses to admit it. Things that could be discussed calmly always have to be addressed by yelling at you. Whenever she is in a bad mood, she will suddenly question you about why you did something months ago, as if all the misery in her life were your fault. She also picks fights with other departments at the drop of a hat, thinking she is fiercely defending her own people, when in reality she merely creates a terrible atmosphere in her department and makes all the other departments think we are a bunch of assholes. The company also loves putting on a show. Never mind all the pointless superficial tasks—the internal systems, from optimization to UI/UX design, are unbelievably bad and extremely unintuitive. Even filling out a simple leave or overtime form wastes a huge amount of time. Furthermore, the company claims to comply with labor laws and not arbitrarily make employees work overtime beyond legal limits. In reality, after the 5 p.m. end of the workday, even if you do not go out to eat, they still deduct your meal break first and only start counting overtime from 6:30 p.m. Then the time-clock system automatically stops operating at 10:20 p.m., so regardless of how late employees actually work each day, the system will never record more than four hours of overtime. What a brilliant invention. You can experience all of this within your first six months on the job. Even if you have had enough and want to resign, you will still be subjected to all kinds of pestering and whining. I absolutely cannot understand what kind of mentality or sense of scale it takes for a company with more than NT$10 billion in capital and over 10,000 employees to haggle with a newcomer with less than a year of seniority over those one or two months. You have mistreated me for so long, and now that I want to leave, I still have to be considerate of your feelings? I truly cannot make sense of it.
The department staff and managers are all pretty nice. Lunch is provided, there’s a free shuttle bus, and there are also salary increases and bonuses.
Many people are waiting to retire, so there are a lot of older employees. Many young people join just to gain some experience and then leave. Some business groups are frequently reorganized, which then leads to layoffs. The office environment is somewhat old and has a musty smell. Overall turnover is very high, so it may not be a suitable company for young people with ideas who are looking for a place to stay long term.
At the Philippines plant, everyone gets along well, and the plant manager is also very nice.
I can't think of anything for now. Work is the same wherever you go.
The colleagues are all pretty nice.
The list of grievances is endless.
If you are being assigned to the Mahachai plant in Thailand, please give up on reporting for duty; otherwise, you will definitely regret it.
The vice president and COO of the Mahachai plant in Thailand (who can be regarded as the top bosses in Thailand) have truly unreasonable personalities and management styles. They yell at people from time to time and even use abusive language. They also have the following extremely unreasonable rules (though the vice president himself considers them good discipline):
1. All newly hired foreign employees are forced to get up at 5:30 a.m. for a morning run. If you do not run, you must take leave with a valid reason; if you fail to request leave, an additional three days will be added each time.
2. All foreign employees are forced to get up at 7:30 a.m. to chant slogans and do morning exercises. If the slogans are not shouted loudly enough, you will be subjected to verbal humiliation (you will see Burmese, Indian, and Filipino colleagues shouting slogans such as “Mighty and majestic... brave and martial...” even though they have no idea what they mean. It is truly absurd.)
3. The BMI of every foreign colleague is required to be publicly disclosed, and colleagues with fuller figures are mocked (which is truly unacceptable...).
In addition, at the Mahachai plant, all Taiwanese employees other than the aforementioned vice president and COO are subordinate to Indian, Filipino, and Burmese managers. (To be honest, foreign colleagues in Thailand have no one to rely on; when they encounter situations like this, they can only swallow it or become people like the aforementioned vice president.)
Coming here will not only waste your life but also make you question your entire life. If you can save even one person, please do not report for duty. Thank you.
Mostly regular working hours, with meals and a shuttle bus provided.
The department that makes calculators is really terrible. The managers there are self-important and criticize employees in other units for being incompetent. Seriously, is there any product group in the entire company that is lower-level than the calculator division?
When the company doesn’t make money, it lays people off. Clearly, the mistakes are in high-level policies, but the ones who bear the responsibility are always lower-level employees. And everyone who gets let go will apparently be laid off once they arrive in the calculator department anyway.
Senior managers scheme against each other, so everyone has to choose a side. Those who lose the power struggle often disappear.
Only contract-manufactured products make money; everything else is self-developed.
The reviews are truly awful.
As long as the contract-manufactured products make money, the other R&D projects have no orders—everyone is just pretending to be busy.
In previous years there were still annual reports, but they were basically just a meeting full of lies.
Free shuttle bus and lunch; employees who take the shuttle home almost never work overtime; one raw-vegetable day per week; bonuses for the three major holidays start at 0.5 months' salary
Pretty busy
None
Severe infighting, most managers are incompetent, and there are many highly paid deadweights. The company has no future, and you won’t learn anything there. Newcomers, be careful not to be tricked into joining.
- Commuter shuttle, which can be used as a reason not to work overtime.
- Free lunch.
- Free parking.
- Your English does not need to be that good; there is Google now.
- Opportunities for employees to learn and pursue further education, including learning about different areas of expertise (design/PMs learning regulations, engineers liaising with clients, etc.).
If you are ambitious, idealistic, and have aspirations for the future, please consider the following first. If you can accept these points, I encourage you to submit your résumé right away.
- Outsiders leading insiders
- Focusing on the person rather than the issue
- Often having to pick a side
- The more capable you are, the more you are suppressed (management does not need to understand the field)
- When your supervisor asks for your opinion, just nod and agree
For more details, see the link below; every point applies:
https://technews.tw/2017/08/11/5-points-to-see-a-workplace/