EPSON_台灣愛普生科技股份有限公司

Good company location

Good hardware and equipment

1. The salary is below market rates, and the raises are also small. Promotion bonuses appear to follow a system, but in practice they are opaque and based on the boss’s preferences.

2. Evades the Labor Standards Act; due to unwritten rules, employees do not dare claim overtime pay.

3. Forces employees to take at least 80% of their leave because it does not want to pay too much.

4. Shows no respect for employees; forcing people to resign is reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution.

5. The internal approval process is cumbersome and bureaucratic, with extremely poor administrative efficiency.

If you have expectations of the systems and culture of a typical Japanese company, you will probably be very disappointed.

The company is in Xinyi District, and the environment is nice.

It’s a Japanese company. The performance evaluation system appears to be well-established, but in practice it depends on the manager’s preferences. The management team is relatively old, their management style is traditional, and promotions and pay raises are entirely based on the manager’s preferences. You may be targeted for no apparent reason.

Colleagues are nice.

The basic benefits are generally quite good, and there’s no need to make up workdays.

1. Senior management’s style is conservative, and the management approach is traditional.

2. There are an excessive number of internal processes, and they just keep adding more, which makes it difficult to get things done efficiently.

3. Salary increases are small, and when it comes to pay during performance reviews, they just brush it off.

4. Working from home only exists in the regulations; when you actually need to apply for it, they block you with all kinds of excuses.

1. Colleagues are generally friendly

2. Decent benefits (travel allowance / learning subsidy / birthday bonus)

3. Great location in Xinyi District

1. Everything has to go through internal procedures, which is tedious and annoying

2. Traditional, old-fashioned, and conservative

3. A bunch of middle-aged and older men (the gender ratio at this company is 8:2); they speak extremely loudly and are very noisy, and they cling to young female newcomers

4. Very low salary adjustment increases

5. Cannot work from home

1. Good benefits

1. If you have an opinion, you will be ousted, making you wonder if you have accidentally joined the Communist Party.

2. The office environment is not great; the headquarters building is the one that is nice.

3. There is no comprehensive review system. If you upset the wrong person, you will receive the lowest performance rating the following year, regardless of your individual performance.

4. The above only applies to a certain department.

The benefits are very good, and working hours are flexible.

Colleagues are very friendly, and there is no backstabbing.

You can go out to smoke and take a break during work, and the supervisor won't say anything.

The pressure is extremely high.

If you don't do well, you're simply out.

The client has the final say.

If the client says even one negative thing about you, you'd better start packing your things and leave.

The supervisor is authoritarian and scolds people mercilessly. Employees feel like they're treated as nothing more than tools.

As long as you fall even slightly short of their standards, you'll be harshly berated. It feels like that's just the culture here.

1. Foreign company culture, with excellent benefits and compensation

2. Excellent office environment

3. A free and unconstrained atmosphere

1. High pressure and a heavy workload

2. Seems open, but there are actually many details to pay attention to..

3. Only performance matters; if your performance is poor, you’re out immediately

This job opportunity has both pros and cons:

Pros:

1. A major Japanese company, with compensation and benefits better than the average Taiwanese company (P.S. Still considerably behind European and American multinationals)

2. Close collaboration with the Japanese headquarters, learning project management and production management approaches from a major Japanese company

3. Many opportunities to travel to factories in China for business, gaining firsthand exposure to the production processes of various consumer electronics products

Cons:

1. The work mainly involves handling requests from the Japanese headquarters, with few opportunities to lead independent projects

2. Frequent business entertainment and travel; good physical stamina is necessary to handle the job

3. Department managers often display emotional behavior; their emotional intelligence could use improvement