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The boss explained the salary structure for the position. The project manager (a more appealing title; in reality, it is essentially a sales role) has a monthly base salary of NT$30,000, which has not changed in ten years. Performance bonuses are paid when projects are completed. If a project causes the company to incur losses, demerit points are recorded and the year-end bonus is reduced. If the accumulated annual project value reaches NT$30 million or NT$40 million, points are recorded and reflected in the performance bonus. The average annual salary for the company’s sales staff is over NT$600,000.

The boss said the online test (questions similar to the intelligence tests given in school, such as identifying number sequences and predicting what the next shape will be) is intended to ensure that employees meet his expectations for attention to detail. Personally, I think this is an ineffective testing method...

You can sense that the boss is a very traditional businessman. He keeps trying to discredit my answers and lectures me in the tone of a senior veteran. He also shares examples of his success, and becomes very happy when you agree with him (he seems to enjoy employees flattering him). Combined with the negative reviews found online, female job seekers should decide for themselves whether to join this company.

After receiving the interview invitation, you first take an online test and then schedule an interview. The company is quite close to the MRT station—it’s right there as soon as you exit. The boss is quite nice and will let you ask questions first, answering whatever you want to know. They also explain the job duties and division of responsibilities in detail. Although the company is not large, it basically offers all the standard benefits, and the 1.5-hour lunch break is quite generous. The entire interview process was stress-free and quite pleasant.

The restroom is somewhat small, but it has a bidet toilet.

1. Close to the MRT station

Company policies:

1. A small, person-dependent company (a little over 10 employees) that seriously lacks the standardized work practices and common knowledge found in ordinary companies.

2. Seriously weak understanding of professional expertise: they hire professionals but require them to follow the boss’s way of doing things, making it difficult to achieve normal results.

3. Very traditional understanding of performance. They believe that looking serious at one’s desk means one is working, while designers wearing headphones are considered inattentive. At the same time, they expect designers in different industries to deliver the same results based on the working hours of another industry.

4. The boss is also the supervisor, and seriously distrusts subordinates. They repeatedly confirm assigned tasks and, due to a lack of understanding of various professional fields, adopt a principle of distrust and replace professional methods with their own (if you object to the approach, they will make things difficult for you).

A self-assured personality: a great deal of time in the work process is spent satisfying the boss’s personal judgment, even when it conflicts with the client’s original request. Instructions from the client, sales staff, and boss come from multiple directions, causing projects to take twice the time for half the results. You are required to carry out the work according to the boss’s instructions, and even after pointing out possible problems, you still have to follow the boss’s wishes completely. When something actually goes wrong, you have to pay out of pocket to cover the losses.

5. Unwilling to train employees (even through free courses), yet expects them to contribute immediately.

6. There are surveillance cameras in the office, which are used to monitor employees and assess work performance.

7. When there are not enough employees, each person is forced to do the work of two people. You cannot refuse or express any opinions. The boss most often says, “I tell you to do something, so just do it. Don’t talk so much.”

Salary and benefits:

1. Many job titles do not match the actual job responsibilities, but the common starting salary is NT$35,000.

2. For many highly specialized positions, they offer a guaranteed annual salary, but in reality you have to work a full year before receiving the money. At the same time, they give you a workload exceeding that amount. You have to endure it until you receive the money; anyone who leaves before completing a year must pay back what they already received, and there is no year-end bonus.

3. Some positions use a bonus-based system, which is actually just a way of setting the base salary very low and using commission-based bonuses as an incentive. In practice, the vast majority of bonuses are concentrated among one or two salespeople, and most employees receive no bonuses.

4. Under a responsibility-based system with no overtime pay, you cannot miss calls after work and are required to work on holidays as well. When you ask whether you can apply for overtime pay, the boss directly refuses.

5. You will be given a hard time regardless of whether you take personal or sick leave. When taking personal leave to see a doctor, you may not want to disclose the reason for personal reasons, but you are still required to explain it; otherwise, you are treated as if you are lying. This is extremely disrespectful.

Misrepresentation during the interview:

1. During the interview, the company’s experience and vision are described as perfect, but in reality, too much of what was explained does not match the facts—it is all empty promise-making.

2. The company has an extremely high turnover rate, with many people being fired or resigning voluntarily (and the way employees are treated is like disposable chopsticks as well ==).

You could completely say that everyone was tricked into joining. The boss believes employees should not have principles and that being humiliated does not matter, as long as the company has orders.

1. The company is located right by a metro station, so commuting is convenient.

2. Once a month, there is a company dinner during after-work hours.

(Attendance is semi-compulsory; it runs very late, and there is a strong drinking culture.)

Company policies:

1. It is a small, people-oriented company (a little over 10 employees) that seriously lacks the standardized work practices and common sense typically found in ordinary companies.

2. Its understanding of professional expertise is seriously lacking. Although it hires professionals, they are required to follow the boss’s way of doing things, making it difficult to achieve normal results.

3. Its understanding of performance is very traditional. It considers someone who looks very serious at their desk to be working, while a designer wearing headphones is considered inattentive. At the same time, it uses working hours from other industries to demand that designers in different industries produce the same results.

4. The boss is also the supervisor and seriously distrusts subordinates. They repeatedly reconfirm assigned tasks, and because they lack understanding of various areas of expertise, they adopt a principle of distrust and instead use their own methods (if you object, they will make things difficult for you).

They have a self-assured personality, and a great deal of time in the workflow is spent satisfying the boss’s personal judgment, sometimes even contradicting the client’s original request. Conflicting instructions from clients, the sales team, and the boss result in projects taking twice the effort and time for half the results.

5. They are unwilling to train employees (even when the training is free), yet demand immediate contributions.

6. There are surveillance cameras in the office, and they use them to monitor employees and assess work performance.

Salary and benefits:

1. Many job titles do not match the actual duties, but the advertised salary is generally NT$35,000.

2. For many highly specialized positions, they offer a guaranteed annual salary, but in practice you must work a full year to receive the money. At the same time, they make you handle a workload exceeding that amount. You have to endure it until you receive the money; if someone who has already received it leaves before completing a year, they must pay it back. There is also no year-end bonus.

3. Some positions use a bonus-based system, which is actually just a way to keep the base salary very low and use commission-based bonuses as an incentive. In practice, however, the vast majority of the bonuses are concentrated among one or two salespeople, so most employees may not receive any bonus.

4. It is a fixed-responsibility system with no overtime pay. The boss will also do everything possible to maximize their own interests (employees have been required to work overtime during annual leave and on typhoon days). There have been cases of staying up all night when projects approached their deadlines, but regardless of whether you work 24 hours of overtime, you will receive at most one day—eight hours—of compensatory leave.

5. You will be given a hard time regardless of whether you take personal leave or sick leave, and even bereavement leave.

Misrepresentations during the interview:

1. During interviews, they describe the company’s experience and vision as extremely perfect, but in reality, too much of what they say is inconsistent with the facts—they are just making grand promises.

2. The company has an extremely high turnover rate, with many people being fired or resigning voluntarily (and the way employees are treated is also like disposable chopsticks ==).

3. They discard employees once they have used them. As soon as a project ends, they start pressuring the designer to leave; once they win a client, they fire the salesperson.

You could simply say that everyone was deceived into joining. If I could give a rating of “Very Bad,” I definitely would.

The computers used for design all have dual monitors.

In any case, regardless of your experience, you start at 35K—don't think too much about it. Fresh graduates looking to work hard can give it a shot.

As long as you pass the intelligence test during the interview, make the boss happy, and can accept a salary of 35K, he'll let you give it a try.

All kinds of large-scale proposals are tests. The boss is happy to be the stumbling block, letting everyone face challenges and grow a lot.

Even if a proposal gets approved, he'll still teach everyone to be humble and modest, because he'll take all the credit for himself.

You really gain a lot at this company. Fresh graduates who are interested can definitely go check it out.

Applied for a product design position; the interview felt good.

I have a master's degree from graduate school. I requested a salary of 38–42K, while the company offered 35K.

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During the interview, the company presented its experience and products as being extremely impressive. The work was described as highly respectful of employees’ creativity and opportunities for development, but in reality, once you join the company, there is absolutely no structure. More than half of the company’s experience described in the presentation consisted only of proposals that were never actually implemented. When handling proposals, everything was revised entirely according to the boss’s ideas, completely ignoring clients’ needs; by the end of the revisions, even I no longer knew what I was doing. When handling major projects, the overtime was especially terrible. Because there was no planning or system at all, everyone only started scrambling right before the deadline. In short, this company really has a lot of problems....

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The boss lives in his own world, refuses to listen to any opinions, and does not respect employees, believing himself to be the boss. The job duties are clearly different from what was described during the interview. He is a boss who loves to make grand promises, so please be careful.

A company with an extremely high turnover rate. On average, employees leave within three months. There are three reasons. First: the job title applied for does not match the actual job duties. The boss uses all kinds of exaggerated and untrue sales pitches to lure people in—for example, saying that they admire your talents and know how to make use of you. However, you later discover that they do not even really understand what you can do, leaving you underutilized. Second: the bonus system. Basically, they set your base salary very low and then use the promise of a percentage of bonuses to entice you to accept the low base pay. Even if you work on and participate in certain projects, you may not necessarily receive the bonus; even worse, sometimes there is no bonus at all. As a result, you can only keep living in Taipei on an extremely low base salary. Third: the company's internal regulations are chaotic. The boss will do everything possible to pursue their own maximum benefit—for example, not paying wages for typhoon days off, not paying overtime, and firing employees they already intended to dismiss before a long holiday so they can save several days of wages for national holidays during the long weekend. And so on—the inside stories are too numerous to tell. All I can say is that you need to be extremely careful. Any verbal agreements about anything must be put into a contract and signed immediately. Best of luck.