群創管理顧問有限公司

1. Several consultants and managers at the company have extensive industry experience, so there is a lot to learn from them.

2. The company frequently organizes book clubs and knowledge-sharing sessions, helping newcomers grow quickly.

3. The company has hundreds of clients across various industries, all of them well-known enterprises, providing opportunities to see innovative business models in different fields.

1. The company provides free, all-you-can-eat snacks, so you should be mentally prepared to gain weight.

2. Managers have very high standards for projects. Newcomers should be mentally prepared to have a plan revised many times, but once you get through it, you will become incredibly capable.

Colleagues support one another through difficult times.

The biggest problem with this company is that the boss has an exploitative, old-fashioned management style. Even the boss writing reviews for the company themselves can hardly make up for the dissatisfaction of employees who have been overworked and left, resulting in such a high turnover rate.

The boss constantly hires young female employees who have only recently entered the workforce, taking advantage of their lack of familiarity with labor laws and the job market to require unpaid overtime over the long term. Even coming into the office to work overtime on weekends is common; receiving messages from the boss late at night on weekdays and on weekends is the norm; and not receiving overtime pay is a certainty. Late salary payments, delayed enrollment in labor and health insurance, inaccurate salary calculations, and being unable to obtain pay slips are experiences every employee inevitably goes through. I sincerely hope the boss can change their mindset, stop treating employees as liabilities, and try to provide employees, who are assets, with reasonable treatment.

Also, the company should not think too highly of its own work. This is not really a management consulting firm; it is simply a company that helps write the paperwork for subsidy applications. This is all the boss knows how to do. Employees will not learn more specialized skills here, such as innovation, supply chain management, marketing, operations planning, or financial modeling. No matter whether you work 60 or 70 hours a week, you still will not receive the bonus the boss promised.

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I couldn't really identify any advantages.

First of all, let me say that this company left me utterly amazed. Thank you to this company for giving me a better understanding of the warmth and coldness of human relationships XD

1. Interview process:

A researcher conducted the first-round interview.

They first showed me several proposals the company had written before. (Actually, this position wasn't really a planning position! The boss or senior researchers would find clients, and then help those clients apply to the government for subsidies. It wasn't really consulting either—it was basically a copywriter. And the forms for applying for government subsidies are quite standardized, so you basically don't need to worry about formatting or anything like that. As long as you have basic writing skills, you can do it XD)

After I finished looking at them, they asked questions such as: Why do you want to apply for this position? Do you know what the company does?

The researcher also told me that SPSS would be used, but afterward the boss said it wasn't necessary.

The second-round interview was with the boss (that is, the general manager).

He contacted me the day before and said he wanted me to truly understand the company's business, so he asked me to go meet clients directly the next day with him and several researchers. I agreed. (At first, I thought this boss was so kind—he was actually letting me observe like an intern first ><)

After we came back, he asked me to go “observe” for the entire week and actually “help” write copy. I would be paid for the hours worked during those days. The boss gave the same reason: he wanted to give me a chance to truly understand the company and the duties of the position. He said that many previous employees had said they could handle the job, but quit after two weeks because they couldn't take it anymore, so he wanted me to try it first, so I wouldn't end up staying only briefly. (Honestly, I should have walked away at that point... A company with a high turnover rate is not a good company.) He also wanted the employee supervising me and the other colleagues to evaluate my work ability and whether I got along well with them. However, I had interviews with two other companies, and I hadn't known in advance that there would be an observation period, so I told the boss at the time that I couldn't go “observe” that intensively and could only go for a few days or so. I also directly told him that, since I didn't know whether I would be hired after the observation period, I couldn't simply turn down the interviews with the other two companies. After hearing this, the boss didn't say anything like, “Oh, the observation period is actually very easy,” but just remained silent. (At that point, I actually felt that the boss probably didn't want to hire me XD)

When I got home, I told the boss that I really couldn't go observe before my interviews with the other two companies, so I hoped to go during the final three days instead. The boss immediately called and said that I had to go during the first three days, because if I went during the later days, the project would already be completed.

I told the boss that it really wasn't convenient for me to cooperate like that. (And I didn't know whether I would be hired. If the company decided I wasn't suitable, wouldn't that be a huge loss? I wouldn't even be able to properly prepare for the other two interviews.) I also asked him: Since there was still a probationary period, why couldn't he wait until I was hired and then evaluate my work ability and whether I could get along well with my colleagues during the probationary period? Besides, the observation period and the probationary period overlapped heavily. The observation period wasn't convenient for me, and the company would surely have new projects during the probationary period. I could prove my abilities then too! The boss just kept repeating himself, saying that the observation period and probationary period were different, that interviews at large companies had several rounds while our company didn't, so the observation period was a type of interview. (I remember replying to the boss: But large companies don't require me to go observe for an entire consecutive week and help complete a project XD.) He also kept emphasizing that he was paying me—it wasn't like he was asking me to work for free.

Eventually, the boss actually admitted to me that he had already found enough employees; it was just that the researcher thought I was good, so he thought he could let me give it a try. He also said that if xxx (a certain senior researcher) needed more help later, he would contact me again.

.........Basically, they were busier and wanted to hire someone as a temporary worker, hahaha. When I visited clients, a newly hired employee accompanied us. She casually told me that she had only started joining client visits after being hired. She was very surprised that I was being asked to help complete projects and accompany them on client visits before even being hired.....

Convenient location

The interviewers were quite friendly

Apparently, the employees get along very well (when the boss isn’t around, haha)

The job posting on 104 said it was marketing and would help improve marketing skills, etc.

But it feels more like assisting other brands/companies with applying for subsidies and the like.

Maybe it’s just a difference in how we understand the terminology?

I heard them say: “When your work hours are over, you can clock out first and then continue working overtime~ Of course, we don’t force you~ You can also go home and do it, okay?”

I thought that was quite scary......

It feels like it would be extremely busy, and the actual work seems quite different from what I expected~

1. Good relationships among employees

2. Flexible leave

3. Opportunities to interact with many different companies

1. Unclear policies (one thing is said today, another tomorrow, and yet another when you leave the company)

2. An emotional boss (often brings emotions into meetings, then tells employees not to take it personally)

3. Unclear bonus system (Employees should receive what they are entitled to. There is no need to make it sound so good externally while distributing bonuses by tiers behind closed doors.)

4. The boss often exaggerates or makes false claims externally (Bonuses are one example. Clients often think we charge a lot, so they believe these things are simply part of the job, but the actual bonus is only around 1%.)

5. An autocratic boss, leaving employees no real opportunity to demonstrate their abilities (If something is not done exactly this way, it seems as though an unforgivable crime has been committed.)

6. Requires employees to work during typhoons (Even when a day off has officially been announced, everyone is still told to come to work in the group chat.)

7. Often uses being busy as an excuse to delay salary payments and labor and health insurance enrollment, and requires employees to pay certain expenses upfront (It takes a very long time to get reimbursed.)

8. Getting a pay stub is nearly impossible

9. Overtime pay is never provided (They make it sound good by offering time off, but that only applies to working overtime on holidays. If you work overtime on weekdays, you get not a penny. And if you leave the company, the time off earned through all that hard work simply disappears.)

10. Travel subsidies are often brought up (Telling employees, “Look how good I have been to you.”)

These are things I experienced at the company. Before joining, you definitely need to have a very strong heart. This company can teach you a lot, and it can also open your eyes to many things.

Colleagues get along well, and most of the clients are pretty nice.

The boss is definitely the biggest problem at this company.

Almost everyone leaves because of the boss >_^

Hehe.

It’s way too obvious that someone was sent here to clean up the reviews.

Every review gets a clarification,

and every review contains similar content,

which really does look a lot like the company description on 104 >_^

If this is such a good company with reasonable requirements,

and the benefits really are as good as you say,

would the turnover rate really be this high?

Hehehehe.

The boss can keep enjoying himself,

because everyone knows what’s really going on >_^

The company offers many benefits (such as two overseas trips a year, a free snack area where you can eat to your heart’s content, employee gatherings, birthday parties, activities for various holidays, movie screenings, customer events, and more), which are also much better than those of other companies. The company’s lounge is filled with various photos and postcards from everyone’s overseas travels.

Time-sensitive projects can be very stressful.

...Afternoon tea every week (one drink)

Overtime meals are provided...

1. Labor and health insurance coverage is below the general standard, and the company deliberately delays enrollment in labor and health insurance under the pretext of being busy.

2. Large amounts of work are often assigned during break times or after work, and the company calls or sends LINE messages to employees at 10 or 11 p.m. on weekdays or on holidays.

3. The company provides no training.

4. No overtime pay is provided, yet this position requires frequent overtime (almost every day, on holidays, and even on days off).

5. The company has a high turnover rate, and its employees are almost all recent graduates entering the workforce.

1. Disrespects employees’ rest time, frequently scheduling meetings during lunch breaks and just before the end of the workday

2. No overtime pay; salary calculations do not comply with the Labor Standards Act

3. Frequently makes excuses to avoid issuing pay slips

4. Leave and pay systems are inconsistent, and promises are frequently broken

5. The bonus system is unreasonable; if targets are not met, most of the year-end bonus cannot be received

6. Frequently requires employees to rush jobs at short notice, resulting in very poor-quality finished products

7. All computers have monitoring software installed to keep track of employees’ every move

8. Individual bonuses are the year-end bonus; the company itself does not provide a separate year-end bonus

9. The boss’s wife treats employees as personal assistants

10. Although employee trips and year-end banquet trips are offered as benefits, the subsidy is only about NT$10,000 and annual leave must be deducted

11. After an employee resigns, the company will tell the employee’s new employer various things about them