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Read the community guidelinesThe following applies to overseas business and product development:
1. English training
2. The company is willing to hire people without experience, so those who need this experience may consider it
3. You can eat the company lunch for just NT$500 a month
4. The company requires morning exercises from 7:58 to 8:00 to stay healthy?!
5. The company holds events almost every month
1. Overseas business is very demanding—you handle the work of an external PM, salesperson, and sales assistant all by yourself
2. Overtime is only allowed until 7:30 at the latest. If you work past that, your supervisor has to write a report, so if you want to finish your work without making your supervisor write a report, then.....
3. Low salary
4. They give you only a tiny raise but talk about it as if they had given you NT$200,000
5. They say this year's bonus is very generous, but after seeing the actual amount, you'll think you are living in a parallel universe
You can join the company without experience. When working abroad, you don't have to rent your own place, and you can keep the air conditioning on all the time. You can go downstairs and start working right away. Working overseas lets you meet different people and try foreign cuisines. Toilet paper is provided for wiping your butt.
Being able to go downstairs and start work means you have to work overtime on your own initiative until you drop dead. The training before being sent abroad is completely impractical. The manager at the assigned location is like a weasel. Communication between the PFD division and the Taiwan headquarters is fine, and the Taiwanese supervisors are genuinely very helpful. The garment division's domestic and overseas teams seem like aliens communicating with aliens. There are separate cliques at each assigned location, but people generally get along fine. Coworkers are passable. Employees all seem like moles and cannot communicate. No matter which boss with family connections it is, they only say motivational-sounding things that are actually completely useless. Finally, the salary for overseas assignments is very low, but they will tell you that the company spends money to send you abroad. In reality, at this salary, no one would want to come even if the company spent nothing. Also, at the beginning, the overseas-assignment salary is not even full pay. The base salary in Taiwan is also very low. The year-end bonus depends on the department you are in overseas; in some departments, it is basically impossible to receive a good year-end bonus.
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The overseas business manager whose name starts with J is a very terrible manager. They cannot distinguish right from wrong and blatantly lie, have no humanity at all, do not help subordinates when problems arise, and only bully subordinates who work hard and take their responsibilities seriously. This is not a company I recommend working for.
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Don’t go to Vietnam on an overseas assignment—there is absolutely no humanity in the management.
Traditional family business: The older-generation members have not yet gradually retired, making it difficult for newcomers to stand out, and the company is indeed somewhat conservative in its thinking.
Compensation and benefits: The salary and benefits at the Yilan headquarters can only be described as acceptable. After all, the company mainly employs local people, and regional consumption is indeed relatively frugal.
The benefits and compensation for overseas assignments are fairly good. Why do I say that? The salary is negotiated by the individual, so whether it is high or low still depends on one’s own ability. However, at least this company is fairly transparent about compensation: the salary ranges for each job title are as clear and straightforward as labor and health insurance details.
Furthermore, employees on overseas assignments receive six trips back to Taiwan during years 1–3 of employment and eight trips starting from the fourth year. This is extremely rare in traditional industries. The accommodation is also generally acceptable—at least it is clean and well equipped—and a cleaning person is usually arranged. Overall, I still feel that this is a relatively rare company with above-average benefits.
The starting salary for new employees in non-business departments seems to have improved compared with the past (reportedly increasing from 26K to 28K). Whether this salary is considered low depends on the individual.
There are many senior employees, and things can sometimes be more bureaucratic.
A typical family business: suggestions from knowledgeable managers are not necessarily adopted.
The company is gradually transforming and expanding into new markets. It got off to a somewhat slow start, and improvements have not been fast enough. Whether it can succeed will depend on the next few years.
Salaries in Yilan are truly pathetic; you have to be grateful for a raise of just one or two thousand...
The Yilan-based boss is very stingy with salaries, and this company is no exception. The company's benefits comply with the Labor Standards Act, but promotions are also not easy to obtain. If you want a high salary, you may need to look for another company.