No advantages
Basically, the person bringing down the entire company is a certain vice president.
She is very good at talking,
but has little actual ability.
As a technology company executive, she cannot even understand code.
She only knows how to force employees to get things done,
regardless of whether they are feasible.
Especially the consultants she brought in:
the solution they give is one thing yesterday,
and completely different tomorrow.
They completely contradict themselves.
After being corrected, they only pretend nothing happened,
causing frontline employees to frequently do work for nothing.
However, the people below them all dare not say anything.
They can only express their dissatisfaction by resigning.
Someone resigns every day.
The company seating chart has to be changed every week.
The turnover rate is extremely high.
Yet the boss only blames young people for being ungrateful,
without considering how unreasonable the demands from the managers are.
You will not learn much here either.
Young people thinking of submitting their résumés, please think twice.
The Taipei office is conveniently located in the Taiwan Railways station building
The company is medium-sized
The benefits at the Kaohsiung headquarters are better
The team atmosphere is somewhat strange; it appears harmonious on the surface, but in reality there is subtext and infighting
This is the case among employees, colleagues, and supervisors alike
Anyone who stays here must be strong-hearted and capable enough at their job to ignore these things
The northern office is conveniently located for transportation.
The entire company is rife with scheming and infighting. Every so often, there is a soap opera to watch. The work operates under a responsibility-based system, with no overtime pay and practically no compensatory leave. Some departments have development specifications, while others do not. If you want to hone your palace-intrigue skills, you can give it a try.
The North Office is upstairs from Exit 2 of Taipei Main Station. The location is pretty good.
One of the senior PMs at the North Office
isn't particularly good at writing code either,
but he sure has a foul mouth, lol.
Whenever he meets clients, he tucks his tail between his legs and can only bow and scrape.
How pathetic~
The people who are still at Hamastar are really quite pitiful,
but there must be a detestable side to every pitiful person.
1. Occasionally there are tasty afternoon snacks
2. Ambitious young people are welcome
3. Close to the MRT station
4. There is a paid gym downstairs
Too many to list—come experience it for yourself
Alternative service personnel are treated as gofers and don't learn much
Let me first state my position: during my time working here, I was a software engineer.
Having read quite a few previous reviews, most of them describe the situation of the department as a whole, so I’ll mainly focus on the team I was in.
To be honest, the team supervisor (manager) was fairly good at interpersonal relations. Setting aside the verbal promise that, after a project ended, they would request rewards, I have no way to conclusively judge whether they actually spoke up on behalf of the team members. Even if they did speak up, there is no solid basis here to assess whether upper management took it seriously or whether the rewards granted afterward were convincing and satisfactory. Overall, things remained fairly uneventful until I left, and I did not have any major conflicts with the team members.
To summarize the advantages: if you genuinely want to learn about interacting with government procurement projects and understand how a project proceeds from the project manager receiving requirements through full development and delivery, you could consider choosing this workplace. Experience is difficult to come by, after all, and if you hope to gain substantial experience in software development or in interacting with clients, this place is genuinely not bad.
From a purely engineering perspective, if you have read the book Clean Code and want to see examples of the bad practices discussed in the book, you can come here and experience it for yourself. After all, once you have read the book before writing code, it is difficult to fall into the realm of writing such terrible code again.
For the advantages, I mainly focused on the team I worked in; when it comes to the disadvantages, I can only discuss them from every angle.
First, the company holds a quarterly meeting every quarter. The agenda is nothing more than motivational speeches, introductions of new employees, announcements about internal company rules, and so on. Of course, the general manager and vice presidents are also invited to speak.
At every quarterly meeting, the general manager always says, “Hamasen does everything in accordance with the Labor Standards Act.” Anyone who has worked here naturally knows that this is bullshit. Because…
You absolutely will not receive compensatory leave or overtime pay after working overtime!
You absolutely will not receive compensatory leave or overtime pay after working overtime!
You absolutely will not receive compensatory leave or overtime pay after working overtime!
It’s important, so I have to say it three times. It’s not that reporting it is impossible; they just fob it off by claiming that the position is under a managerial/exempt work system.
There is no need to say much about the vice presidents of the two major service departments. The people directly under them have never stopped criticizing them.
To summarize the disadvantages aside from not receiving legally mandated compensation after working overtime:
1. The company’s operational planning lacks foresight.
2. The company’s code is completely disorganized. Everyone does whatever they want with it, exhausting all new and existing employees.
3. Every department holds its own sort of strategy meeting each year and insists that you spend a Saturday or Sunday attending a meeting with the department, but they do not give you a compensatory day off for that day.
There are quite a few other points that were mentioned in previous reviews, so I won’t elaborate on them.
None
They talked a great game during the interview.
The salary and everything had already been agreed upon, and I even had a second interview.
The female manager also said it was okay.
Then there was no follow-up. What an utterly baffling company.
It depends on the person. After working here for several years, I feel that it’s not bad overall. It’s a bit demanding, but I guess that’s how the software industry is. The company is growing steadily, with constant new ideas and products. If you perform well, the performance-based compensation is better than at other software companies. The work environment is good, and if you want to learn something while having some job security, it’s a pretty good place.
There are still quite a lot of projects, and the company has a very good reputation with clients. If you’re looking for an easy job where you can get by without putting in much effort, this probably isn’t suitable.
Here are a few advantages across different aspects for everyone’s reference:
First of all, Hamastar is definitely a company that operates properly. It has always upheld the spirit of “service first, customers foremost, li wah eh ho-tshu-pi.” You only need to accompany a PM or supervisor to a client meeting to see this: when faced with client requests, the response is always “Yes, okay, no problem.” It is hard to find a second vendor of such high quality elsewhere.
The boss also places great importance on employees’ careers. Take engineers as an example: even if the position you applied for is an iOS engineer, the boss will require you to write web applications first. The reason is that they hope every employee can develop across fields and cultivate a second area of expertise here, so that you are not merely a “specialist,” but become a “generalist,” thereby developing into a leader capable of managing an entire project.
Whenever a major crisis occurs, the supervisor has never imposed severe punishment. They only ask the people under them to ask themselves honestly: Have we really done our best? If not, should we fulfill our responsibilities and proactively stay behind to resolve the unfinished work? Therefore, here you only need to work until 8 or 9 p.m. every day so that the supervisor can see your dedication; basically, you will not be given too hard a time.
Finally, I remember a very inspiring statement from the boss: Everyone here can be a PM, because I hope to give every employee an opportunity and give everyone room and a stage to demonstrate their abilities. But remember, you must constantly adjust your mindset—千万不要以為這樣就真的是PM了，這樣會太拿翹。
A high-quality company, practically the software industry’s southern overlord, completely flawless
Can't think of any for now.......
1. Bonuses are awarded according to the boss's mood (if one of your colleagues is about to resign and the boss wants to retain them, they might receive an enormous bonus...........)
2. Extremely long working hours. Overtime cannot be reported on weekdays, and managers cannot report overtime. Overtime can be reported for working on holidays, but the boss will earnestly persuade you that, in your career, you should pursue achievements and not worry about the number of hours worked.
3. Before negotiating a project, the top executive promises the client that a team will be formed specifically to handle their project. Once the project is secured, however, that team has to handle multiple projects at the same time (though this cannot be disclosed to the client), so one engineer is used as three.
4. When a client loses their temper or a project is delayed and incurs a penalty, only frontline employees are asked to meet with the client. The PM and the boss usually have no idea where they have gone to hide.
5. The company has clear factions, and some mid- and low-level managers take credit for others' work.
There is an outrageous drama to watch every day—more absurd than a TV series.
Choose very carefully!!!!! This is a place that is easy to enter but difficult to leave.
All kinds of bizarre situations can be seen here; there is never an end...
They are accustomed to tormenting employees under the guise of “training,” while taking no responsibility, providing no training, and offering no development, yet assuming that employees must know how to do everything.
XX believes: Young people must sign a contract; this is for their own good, to prevent them from giving up easily when they encounter “unreasonable torment.” The reality is that when survival and a penalty are placed in front of you at the same time, everyone will choose the former.
XX believes: A product only needs to score 70 out of 100. As long as employees can be pressured into completing acceptance checks immediately and money can be collected, that is enough. The product’s actual completeness and stability do not matter, and its value for money is completely unreasonable. The most frightening thing is that the boss does not really care about the condition of the company’s own products—perhaps they do not dare to look.
XX believes: Everything is very simple; how could anything possibly be done incorrectly or poorly? (Asking for help is useless.) Even when you have done something well, you cannot say how it should be done or how the division of labor could be improved, because the boss will think you are shirking responsibility, and does not care about what you have accomplished.
When a supervisor constantly criticizes their subordinates but never reflects on themselves, it is no surprise that the subordinates can only continue passing the blame downward and never see their own problems.
Here, people who are willing to do things are punished; only those who constantly push things off and hide can survive.
Choose carefully!
Hamasen is a dark, eerie place
filled with all kinds of strange people and bizarre stories
The supervisor is crazy + perverted <------ basically, no adjective is sufficient to describe them
1. The management system has serious problems.
2. There is a severe generation gap in internal communication; only those who obey orders have room to survive.
3. The technology is outdated and cannot keep up with the times, yet they are always committing to unbelievable deadlines.
4. The salary is glossed over, and the job responsibilities differ from what was discussed and agreed upon during the interview.
5. They lower the salary they offered you and require you to sign a three- or five-year contract before giving you the difference (possibly an extra one or two thousand). If you breach the contract, they will also require you to pay all of it back.
6. Labor insurance does not cover the full combined amount either; they evade taxes under the name of bonuses.
7. There is no overtime pay—only compensatory leave, which no one actually dares to request. Bonuses have no established system and depend entirely on their mood.
8. There is no employee training to speak of. Even when something is documented, it is so outdated that learning it only leaves you constrained.
9. There are no detailed development specifications.
10. All kinds of darkness.
I sincerely recommend not wasting your life here.