銳意科技股份有限公司

Last year’s year-end bonus was NT$6,000. At this year’s company banquet, the boss directly said that the company has always been operating at a loss. This year’s year-end bonus is still NT$6,000—truly touching.

No salary increase

The interview process sounded very appealing.

1. The boss was quite rude and would make remarks they thought were humorous when an employee’s appearance or body shape differed from their profile photo.

For example: “You must have been eating well lately?” or “You look fuller than in the photo.”

2. The first interview was not inside the company—it was at a small tea table outside!?

3. During a break in the interview, an employee inside handed me a note.

It said: “Don’t come here; there’s something wrong with this company.”

Extremely strange.

The happiest thing about the job was feeling completely liberated on the last day before leaving.

The boss is a stereotypical Hakka person—you know what I mean...

No pros

1. There are more women than men in the office.

2. They are unfriendly toward newcomers.

3. Colleagues are also unfriendly toward newcomers.

4. As soon as newcomers start working, all the work is dumped on them. If it is not finished, they have to work overtime, but they get lectured if they submit an overtime form, so they can only take compensatory leave instead.

5. The office is rather old.

6. They emphasize efficiency, but the computers are very outdated, constantly crash, and run slowly; nevertheless, they blame newcomers for having poor efficiency.

7. During the interview, they agreed that there would be no overtime, but after starting work, overtime was required.

8. Including the owner and the owner's wife, there are 18 people in the office.

Overall, they simply do not give newcomers any time to adapt to the environment and expect them to produce results immediately. Colleagues say that if it were them, they could finish it in two days~

If you want to join, you need to be mentally prepared. Good luck. During the interview, everything sounds very nice, but once you actually join...

It is truly a small, old company that exploits newcomers. If you are thinking of joining this company, please think it through carefully~

Recommended for people who want to learn

A snapshot of early Taiwan: serious and frugal.

Everyone works diligently because they have to work on May 1, Labor Day. After all, they are defined as employees, not laborers.

The environment is clean because employees have to clean the office twice a week. If it is not cleaned properly, the boss will take notice.

Relationships are harmonious. After all, family businesses are primarily governed by people rather than by ISO standards. Relatives of the owners can survive longer.

The computers have been replaced—being able to boot up in 30 minutes is already no small feat. Did they think spraying the motherboard with an air gun would make it faster? Imagine that a computer user's work efficiency at the company slows down not because of their abilities, but because of the computer equipment. Is that right? By the way, is the software properly licensed?

Managers, please ask yourselves: “What kind of future can I offer these poorly paid employees?” After all, the infant and childcare industry is based on an appeal to compassion, which is worlds apart from the company's people-oriented management style.

There are direct shuttle buses, so transportation is fairly convenient.

Pros

The workplace is in Neihu. There are direct shuttle buses, so it is fairly convenient.

Cons

1. Policies and procedures

a. It is run according to personal whims; the policies are all for show and have never actually been implemented. (Family-owned business)

b. You will be given a hard time regardless of whether you take personal leave or sick leave.

c. They are unwilling to train employees (even when the courses are free), yet expect immediate contributions.

d. The office is luxurious, but the equipment is extremely poor. The computers are 10 years old and will not be replaced until they are so broken that they cannot even start.

e. Even requests for stationery may be rejected; you practically have to provide your own.

2. Salary

a. N-5,6k, with no bonuses for the three major holidays. Even if the company makes a large profit, the year-end bonus is at most one month’s salary.

(Last year the company made over 100 million, but the year-end banquet was held at an inexpensive vegetarian restaurant, and the grand prize in the raffle was NT$3,000—with only one winner!)

b. Taking leave results in a NT$1,000 perfect-attendance deduction.

c. The standard probationary period is three months, with the salary typically N-8,9k. They usually promise to raise it to the agreed salary after the probationary period.

However, they will deliberately “forget,” and the longest case I witnessed was someone not receiving the promised salary until six months after passing probation.

d. The position is treated as a responsibility-based role, with no overtime pay or compensatory leave.

3. Coworkers

a. There are two factions. People aged 20–35 (usually unmarried) generally do not stay for even a year; turnover is extremely high. Those who remain are people with families or retirees who have returned to work. (Eight coworkers left within one year of my employment... The entire office, including the boss and the boss’s spouse, had only 15 people.)

b. Ability is not considered; only the length of overtime matters. The longer you work overtime, the more the boss likes you.

c. Coworkers compete for favor and will stab one another in the back.

4. Treatment of employees

a. They throw you away once they have used you. Once a project ends, they start pressuring engineers to leave; once they win a client, they pressure sales staff to leave.

b. No Wi-Fi, and sometimes no air conditioning.

Please, everyone, stop applying here... This company breaks so many laws..................