陽程科技股份有限公司

New employees are constantly being replaced, so there are many experienced veterans who can guide you.

Travel expense claims are constantly rejected by senior management. In the end, you even lose money. You work to earn money, not to run a charity, so this deserves a very negative review. Treating this industry as a hobby doesn’t mean you can treat people like slaves, okay?

Snacks, a coffee machine, lunch, and dinner are provided. OK.

My current employment is in the worst environment.

Whether it’s the colleagues, supervisors, work environment, company computer systems, or benefits,

there are only two states: mediocre and extremely poor.

All former colleagues can do is wish you the best.

Inspiring

Once you join, under no circumstances should you offend your supervisor. Supervisors will use all kinds of methods to pressure you into resigning voluntarily, so severance pay is simply not something you will receive. They will make things difficult for you if they dislike you or think you work too slowly—there are all kinds of ways they can make things difficult, until you resign voluntarily. They do not have to pay severance, which is very satisfying for them. Also, when a new employee has just joined and the supervisor feels they are unsuitable, they will directly ask the employee to resign voluntarily, completely unwilling to provide severance pay. So everyone considering joining, please think carefully. Don't take the wrong path and end up with nothing.

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Yangcheng Banqiao — Automated Electrical Control

It is recommended not to attend the interview, as it would be a waste of time.

Reason 1: You have to go to Dayuan for the interview.

Reason 2: They are looking for someone with relevant experience in control-panel assembly and wiring.

Reason 3: Although the company is in Banqiao, you have to commute back and forth to the factory in Dayuan. When equipment needs to be tested, you may have to stay at the Dayuan factory for a period of time.

Reason 4: Depending on the project situation, you will need to cooperate with overtime work.

Reason 5: Business trips to mainland China or other countries last at least three months before you can return to Taiwan. For business trips to projects in Chiayi, the workload is busy, and you will need to rotate weekend shifts and take scheduled days off.

If you can accept all of the above, then go to the interview in Dayuan.

The work I’m responsible for is fairly easy, and the supervisors and colleagues are easy to get along with.

However, whenever there is something that needs to be communicated with other departments, you must keep an email record; otherwise, if something goes wrong, you end up taking all the responsibility yourself.

There are also quite a few problems with the computer systems used on a daily basis, which seems to reduce overall efficiency.

It feels like they strongly encourage overtime but are reluctant to pay overtime wages.

The benefits are average.

It’s not the worst—it’s just an ordinary job.

You get to see mammals with human faces but beastly hearts, a production-control employee moonlighting in procurement, and an emperor who feeds people empty promises.

A one-man-rule company where the boss’s ideas and philosophies change constantly from week to week. There are piles of managers and piles of executive assistants, but very few section chiefs! Employee benefits keep being reduced. The new head of the Administration Department, Ms. Zhao XX, considers herself a representative of management, cutting employee benefits and taking advantage of the company’s draft position-revision plan to downgrade some employees’ job grades. Although their salaries did not change, their positions and seniority were effectively demoted. Mechanical R&D staff are basically expected to be all-purpose engineers: they must know PC, electrical controls, and FAE work. You are expected to produce customized equipment you have never made before within one month. For long-lead-time components, you have to place advance orders first; if Procurement cannot buy them, Design has to figure it out. They tell you to surrender first and have the R&D staff absorb the engineering changes themselves; if they cannot make it work, that is your problem. The more you do, the more mistakes you make; the less you do, the fewer mistakes you make. The boss favors people who do less and make fewer mistakes, while criticizing those who do more and make more mistakes as idiots. They never consider that the people who do more are the company’s main source of revenue. They take advantage of employees who seem easy to bully.

1. Newcomers who want to learn design or gain experience communicating with other departments are welcome; once you reach three years, you can leave without any trouble.

2. You can experience firsthand what the ultimate model of a one-person rule looks like.

1. Employee benefits are changed arbitrarily (to the point of extinguishing people’s enthusiasm for their work).

2. The overtime hours are outrageous. Even after going home after 9 p.m., you will still be constantly contacted or harassed via LINE.

3. Reporting overtime (and receiving overtime pay) will get you scolded; not reporting overtime (and harming your health) will get you criticized for being inefficient.

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That kind of manager

What advantages does the company have?

Returning to work right after giving birth,

I was maliciously reassigned to different duties under the guise of “support.”

I raised the issue and asked for the job transfer process to be carried out (including changes to the employment contract, salary, etc.),

but was told that this was currently a “learning phase,” so the transfer process would not be carried out.

I was told to apply only after becoming proficient at the work.

I was also explicitly told that if I did not want to do the work after the transfer, there would be no other work available.

It was clearly an attempt to force the employee to resign.

The manager from the Taiwan External Trade Development Council

will make remarks mocking female employees’ bodies.

You can ask questions if you have problems,

but as soon as you ask one, it becomes “there’s something wrong with you.”

So there’s no point in thinking about asking questions.

You also have to consider who is asking (it’s fine if it’s someone he likes).

1. The boss can spout bullshit without batting an eye.

2. The boss says there are no salary raises here.

3. Starting pay is lower than the industry average.

4. You can experience the joy of volunteering.

5. The new-hire attrition rate is 90%; the remaining 10% are doing it for the love of it.

6. Most managers are incompetent.

1. The boss says only people who do it for the love of it should come.

2. The boss says only people who do it for the love of it should come.

3. The boss says only people who do it for the love of it should come.

Very important

Yang Cheng’s company introduction and news create wonderful expectations, so I’d like to share my experience as a design engineer who worked at this company for less than three years before resigning.

Pros:

1. Housing allowance: $3,500

(Managers repeatedly emphasize that the allowance will result in taxes being charged to the landlord, causing rental disputes; false!! This is purely because the managers believe it wastes company resources.)

2. Training

(For half a year, you are required to stay after work every Tuesday and Thursday to watch one to two hours of videos. The content consists of training courses that previous managers were required to take, based largely on past cases and information found through Google searches. New employees with no exposure to machinery or equipment design generally still do not understand the material after completing the courses. Of course, don’t expect any allowance for the training.)

3. Free lunch and dinner

4. People who did not major in mechanical engineering or have no work experience also have opportunities to develop here, because customized equipment allows you to learn a lot.

Cons:

1. Sixty percent of the employees here have more than ten years of experience and are waiting to retire, while as many as 30% have less than three years of experience, and they are constantly being replaced.

2. Bonuses and salary increases

(Under slogans such as “the company isn’t making money” and “the overall economy is poor,” you should be grateful if you receive a raise of a few hundred dollars a year.....)

3. Overtime pay

(At the interview: “Our company absolutely complies with the Labor Standards Act.”)

(After being hired: If there are no projects, you are not allowed to apply for overtime pay; if there is a project and you apply for overtime pay, that’s fine—but your performance rating will be reduced.)

(Many departments have no projects, yet employees still have to work until after 10 p.m. Monday through Friday and come in on Saturdays to pretend to accompany the manager.)

4. SOPs

(The design process is shown in the diagram below. Materials related to mold opening and design, such as introductions to pneumatic components, selection of linear components, and technical bulletins, are all dumped in the shared folder. When you ask a question, senior employees only tell you that the information is available online and that you should look it up yourself; when you make a mistake, they ask why you didn’t say anything if you didn’t know.)

5. Working hours

(You work almost every day from Monday through Saturday. It is normal to go several months without a day off when there are projects, and every day there are more tasks and drawings than you can finish.)

6. Year-end stock allocation

(Basically, everyone receives one month’s worth, but there is an unofficial rule: the department ranked last in performance receives nothing, and this is usually the new employees.)

If you genuinely want to pursue a career in design, you can try coming here to hone your skills for a few years. During that time, forget about family, a high salary, and a normal life. It is a sweatshop notorious for its harsh working conditions; senior management only knows how to paint grand visions and talk about the past, with militarized management.