致遠景觀顧問有限公司

The company gives employees quite a lot of flexibility and a high degree of freedom. The boss also has very strong professional knowledge and skills—he’s not the kind of person who only knows how to talk. Unfortunately, I had to go abroad for further study as part of my career planning, so I could only take a temporary leave. However, during my two years of employment, the boss really took good care of us. Although he is very easygoing and does not fuss over details, whenever we were at an evaluation, his professionalism truly overwhelmed all the competing companies!

Although the company is not large, the fundamentals you train in here become very solid. You get exposure to everything, from design, planning reports, budgeting, construction drawings, and construction supervision, to understanding construction details. I really like the emphasis here on being able to design work that can actually be built, rather than merely engaging in armchair theory—like those teachers at our school who only know how to talk about theory, producing things that are flashy but impractical.

The work atmosphere at the company is also quite good. It’s just that a few former colleagues really took advantage of the boss being far away and no one supervising them, and they violated the company’s systems and rules. After merely being nagged and reminded by the boss, they stormed out and then went around bad-mouthing the company.

The administrative systems have been established somewhat slowly, but it feels like the boss is making an effort. After all, he is professionally oriented rather than primarily management-oriented.

Three-section bonus

Flexible working hours

Compensatory leave is easy to take

Those who have just graduated or are just entering the industry are advised not to join.

The company can almost only take on projects with very simple scopes of work,

or can only keep participating in design competitions and tenders.

Think of these design competitions and tenders as repeatedly doing the same things you did in university design courses.

When you see your peers already able to prepare budgets and produce construction drawings, while you are the only one standing still,

it can feel very frustrating and like a waste of the valuable time you have to make progress early in your career.

The boss occasionally asks everyone for their opinions about the company.

After you offer an opinion, he tries to persuade you using his own way of convincing himself.

During working hours, you may also be asked to handle things that are not professional work at all (for example, driving to pick up or drop off the boss, or handling personal matters for the boss’s family).

The boss keeps speaking negatively about former employees in front of current employees.

It is so excessive that he still talks about them long after they have left.

It is suggested that he be a little more open-minded.

First interview with the people in the office, followed by a phone interview with the boss

Seems to be quite flexible

They are very short-staffed, so it is easy to get hired

Three holiday bonuses

The office smells moldy

During the phone interview with the boss, he briefly does a background check and asks you to describe your experience. Then you listen to him ramble on for over an hour, complaining and venting about all sorts of things concerning former employees (you don't know whether it's true or exaggerated). He will also ask you: “Would you also be like this?”

It is all about complaining about former employees' tempers, personalities, and things of that sort.

The small company is very flexible

The boss is very emotional and targets employees

He is late and leaves early himself, with no sense of time

When decisions need to be made, we often have to wait for him and cannot find him

He browses pornographic websites on coworkers’ computers at the company

He doesn’t even close the tabs or clear the history, occasionally giving people a shock

He loves to disparage employees who have left previously

He often picks fights with people, leading to unpleasant collaborations

The designers—not him—are the ones who have to bear the client’s pressure

Has been in business for a long time and has quite a bit of professional experience

The colleagues at the company at the time were willing to help and were more trustworthy than the other senior designers.

The boss is a decent person, but as other commenters have mentioned,

he really has no sense of time (he himself arrives late and leaves early), often resulting in overtime.

Sometimes you might even accidentally catch the boss looking at strange websites during work hours (´,_ゝ`)

(I feel embarrassed on behalf of the female colleagues.. (((ﾟдﾟ)))

Overall, it’s not bad and it’s a place where you can learn things,

but when things get really bad, it can still put you in a very bad mood... ╮(′～‵〞)╭

Pride themselves on professionalism

Before the interview, I had a phone screening that lasted nearly 30 minutes. The interview was then scheduled for around 9:00, but although employees were supposed to start work at 9:00, I stood outside for more than ten minutes before someone opened the door. After going inside, I had to wait for the boss to arrive, almost another 30 minutes... I felt they had very little regard for punctuality... There was no overtime pay, and they repeatedly emphasized that the boss would work overtime alongside everyone...

The boss is a nice person,

however, they tend to procrastinate,

sometimes causing employees to occasionally work overtime to complete assigned tasks