高鼎精密材料股份有限公司

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1. As far as the chemical industry is concerned, I personally think the salary is pretty good—the starting salary was 15–20% higher than at my previous employer.

2. The company occasionally gives out supermarket gift vouchers, such as those for PX Mart, supposedly because of inflation. In any case, they’re basically just meant to be used to buy food.

3. Although the company operates somewhat on an apprenticeship system, the managers aren’t very old, know how to lead people, and are fairly reasonable. Unless you step into a particularly serious problem, things can basically be resolved as long as you discuss them properly.

4. As far as traditional-industry bosses go, although there are still some traditional-industry problems (such as the boss’s son taking over), at least the boss follows the rules they set themselves and doesn’t act like a feudal lord. That’s definitely a plus.

5. There are quite a few overseas assignment openings, and usually people can get promoted after returning from several years on assignment (like my manager did).

The company has some team-building activities, but they’re all held on weekends. It’s incredibly awkward—I just want to stay home and rest on my days off.

1. The HR staff are very polite. At least in terms of their attitude, they don't make people feel uncomfortable. I remember that even when I had to reschedule the interview at short notice on the day itself, the impression they gave was still good.

2. It's a place where you can settle in and there are opportunities for promotion. My section manager is under 30 this year and has been with the company for about five years.

3. The starting salary is slightly higher than in similar industries, by around NT$3,000. The bonuses that should be provided are given, and the company is of a certain scale.

4. My supervisor has better emotional control than those at my previous jobs (though it may differ from person to person).

1. Giving out shopping vouchers is a bit silly. The company occasionally provides additional living allowances, but they are always issued as supermarket gift vouchers. Personally, I think it's a bit silly... Wouldn't cash be better?

2. The work processes are lengthy, and everything, regardless of size, is monitored very closely. Although I can understand that some of this may be related to protecting business information, it can make people feel that the company is micromanaging too much and create unnecessary hassle.

1. The salary is a little higher than at other companies.

2. If you want to experience life working abroad, this company offers quite a few opportunities.

3. “Some” managers are good; they are reasonable and occasionally treat employees to meals.

1. The rewards and punishments are not very humane: If you make a more serious mistake, the disciplinary action is announced publicly, which is a little embarrassing.

2. A typical traditional Taiwanese industry company, where you often encounter demanding manual work: You need to have a certain level of physical strength to do it.

3. Young people may sometimes feel out of place: The company has many “moms” and “dads,” so younger colleagues have to band together for warmth and support.

4. The employee benefits have a strong “mom” feel; many activities are obviously family-oriented. But there’s nothing that can be done—the company’s main members are simply people like them.

This matter was accepted and is on file under this Court’s separate case No. 106年度訴字第3680號. However, the Defendant became dissatisfied with the Plaintiff as a result and sought to force the Plaintiff out. Without cause, the Defendant transferred the Plaintiff (mistakenly written as the Defendant), demoting the Plaintiff from Deputy General Manager to Technical Director, and then to the position of Consultant; furthermore, when wages were paid on January 5, 2018, the salary was reduced to NT$57,700 per month, a reduction of 33%, with take-home pay of NT$49,963. The Defendant also revoked the Plaintiff’s computer access and company vehicle, and even required that, beginning January 9, 2018, “the office seat be moved to the Consultant’s Room in the B1 (basement) of Plant 241, with the Consultant’s Room designated as the Plaintiff’s work and rest area. The Plaintiff may not enter any unauthorized plant areas or offices. During the lunch period, the Plaintiff may eat in the employee cafeteria in accordance with the original rules; the lunch break is from 12:00 to 13:00 according to company regulations.” The Plaintiff had originally held the highest-ranking position in the Technical Department and had a company vehicle and special allowance. However, because of a disagreement of opinion at an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting, the Defendant, rather than reflecting on its violation of the resolution, arbitrarily demoted the Plaintiff to the dispensable and meaningless position of “Consultant,” moved the Plaintiff’s office outside the company’s plant area to a basement used for storing goods, and restricted the Plaintiff’s activities to the office, prohibiting entry to the Defendant’s plant and other offices—effectively placing the Plaintiff under house arrest.

Source: Civil Judgment of the Taiwan Taichung District Court, Case No. 107年度勞訴字第41號

If you’re interested, you can Google it yourself~

This company’s culture~ The judgment above may serve as a reference 🙂🙂

If you’re thinking of applying~

Evaluate it for yourself……

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Possibly 10 years ago, this was still a decent company. A few managers had ideas, passion, and the ability to get things done, but they were all forced out.

The job title sounds impressive—it’s called “engineer”—but basically, once you join, you do the work of a technician.

Senior management is extremely paranoid and very afraid that employees will leak confidential information. Some raw materials are not even disclosed to the R&D team. After going around in circles with great effort, you may think you’ve found a new raw material to try for product development, only to discover that the company had already been using it for a long time. How is anyone supposed to develop products efficiently this way?

Apparently, quite a few surveillance devices were installed later on, making employees extremely cautious even when talking in the laboratory or office, afraid of accidentally upsetting someone who is overly sensitive.

Someone mentioned problems with managerial bullying. Fortunately, I never experienced it myself, because I ran away before I could be bullied. However, I was lucky enough to encounter several good seniors before leaving. Unfortunately, they were either forced out or saw through the company’s ugliness. Actually, it’s not something to regret—they should be congratulated for escaping from hell.

Someone also mentioned that some managers would push their subordinates off a cliff, and I experienced this personally as well. Although it was only a small matter, it was enough to see through this manager’s lack of accountability. (I’m curious whether this manager is still there.)

Yet even when someone submits their resignation, there are still people who try to fish for information, hoping to catch others’ vulnerabilities and settle scores. It’s absolutely deranged.

The year is now 2022, and the bizarre culture described by the 12 predecessors above still exists. I suppose that must be this company’s strength... Carrying out “ㄕˇ” to the very end!

(Background information: Not a recent graduate; more than 15 years of work experience)

1. Bizarrely high turnover: During the interview, HR said there were 5–6 people in the same position. Less than a week after I started, only one senior colleague remained.

2. Surveillance culture: Constantly watching employees, monitoring their phones, and monitoring them while they drive.

3. Strange working-hours culture: Officially, employees clock in at the entrance on the first floor at 8:00, but they are pressured to be in position 10–20 minutes early. The official end time is 17:00, but the company tends to call you into meetings or have you recite company regulations near the end of the workday. Delays of more than an hour are the norm.

4. Bizarre brainwashing: Employees must memorize the company philosophy, document procedures, and management regulations, attend regular classes, and take written exams.

Those with long tenure are either specially chosen by heaven or members of the imperial family! Ordinary people, please be cautious about mistakenly entering this place. Amitabha!

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A company with extremely problematic culture and management policies. It has no trust in its employees and monitors and listens in on them at all times. It has established many rules that can be used to issue demerits and deduct employees’ pay. In the past, many employees who were forced out were subjected by the company to demerits, demotions, and dismissal. Management cadres basically only put on a show for the boss; they have no professional ability whatsoever, know nothing themselves, and only know how to push subordinates to do the work. New hires in sales, technology, and production lines generally leave after about a year, so turnover is very high. This company is not suitable for people who have ideas and want to get things done. If you only want to scrape by and are willing to let the company and your supervisors take advantage of you, you can go there.

The salary is fairly decent.

If you’re looking to coast and do the bare minimum, you might consider it.

The old-timers are basically useless, with nothing left but talk.

Especially those at the assistant-manager level and above—in my view, they all have serious capability issues.

Certain bootlickers will target you just because they don’t like you, without needing any reason.

No wonder the turnover rate is, haha.

Pretty much everyone who could do the job and wanted to work was driven out.

Extremely inefficient, with terrible interdepartmental coordination and collaboration. It feels like going to work is just wasting your life.

They spend all day suspecting employees of trying to steal confidential information.

Haha, I won’t say more about the things that can’t be discussed.

Oh, right—I’ve worked at both plants of this company.

Some supervisors are genuinely good, allowing you to fully发挥 your abilities at work.

A very old-fashioned company culture with no progress, and an extremely serious office culture. The salary is indeed typical of a traditional industry, accumulated over time. It is hard to imagine that a company of this scale has such weak internal management.

Some department managers, once they have been in their positions for a long time, become very problematic. Guo × Fen and Li Li ×, for example, engage in a lot of workplace bullying through their authority; it is quite abnormal.

Slow promotion, deteriorating salary and benefits, and office culture

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First, they send you a long, stinky, meaningless psychological test that wastes your time.

Then, it takes a very, very long time before you receive an interview notification.

At the interview, you have to complete three more meaningless test papers in just 30 minutes, and they even ask what corporate charity activities you have participated in.

The interview is conducted by one HR person who asks you template questions like a robot.

They also casually write notes in the blank spaces of the information you provided (do they think students are copying notes?).

It was extremely unprofessional, and the process ended before I even got to meet the hiring manager.

From beginning to end, they treated applicants like idiots and messed with them.

Although I had heard about this company's reputation long ago,

it wasn't until I went there myself that I realized how absurd it really was.

Unless you actually live nearby, don't waste your time helping them boost their performance.

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The HR interview at Gaoding is very long. Some positions are posted, but they may not actually be hiring. The base salary is kept low, so you have to rely on shift work and overtime!! Bonuses depend on the company’s situation.

2. Situation at a certain plant of another × Huang specialty pesticide factory: Abuse of authority is relatively serious, with selective management based on favoritism. Management is unfair, the management system is aging and inadequate, and company resources are being wasted. The company’s revenue and management capabilities have declined severely, benefits have been cut, and salaries reduced, triggering a wave of resignations and layoffs.

It might be considered a benefit if you enjoy chatting with HR.

Before the interview, they test your knowledge of the company's products, business philosophy, and so on.

HR asked many "details" about my previous job~ It felt less like they wanted to understand my work abilities and more like they were collecting information about other companies and salary levels. The negative reviews are not without reason.

The colleagues in engineering get along pretty well, and most of them are around the same age. Aside from the old-timers, everyone is a newcomer. There’s also milk to drink.

The machines are so old that they can’t even produce accurate data, yet the company still refuses to replace them. Basically, working a shift alone is exhausting. They said they would hire more people, but they still haven’t managed to, even after all this time. Equipment parts often malfunction, and we’re expected to repair them ourselves. A bunch of procedures aren’t followed according to the SOP; instead, it depends on the mood of the veterans.

The deputy manager is good at giving you an extra push when you’re already standing on the edge of a cliff—and it’s completely pointless. They’re just waiting to retire.

The company believes that everyone might steal confidential information, so data is completely disconnected between departments (except for ISO documents). Finding the true cause of an abnormality requires going around in a huge circle, by which time a whole batch of things has already broken down.

Even when you take leave according to the rules, you still get harassed, and the attendance deductions are ridiculous. Taking one day of personal leave results in three days being deducted, and the deductions accumulate. Taking one day of annual leave results in two days being deducted. It’s absolutely absurd! If management wants to get rid of you, even the smallest reason can be used to punish or transfer you.

5S and 6S are already enough to drive people crazy, and now they want to automatically upgrade to 7S. There are inspections every week, and each department has to find someone to blame (no matter how ridiculous the reason is; one time, I wasn’t even there and still got blamed). The environmental, safety, and health department is basically the Eastern Depot—they can go after you without following company regulations (or when the company hasn’t even established any regulations). The quality-control, engineering, and process departments aren’t allowed to eat or drink beverages in the office. It really feels like we’re being singled out.

They call it continuous operation, but when you’re working alone, you still have to go to the cafeteria just to eat, and the logic of leaving the machine unattended is also quite something.

The salary discussed is the total salary, while the base pay is pushed very low and only brought up by stacking on a bunch of strange allowances. The bonus is painfully small, and the year-end bonus is less than one month’s salary. QQ.

In summary, it’s basically a senior operator who accidentally ended up with “engineer” in their job title.

Online reviews say this company's pay is poor, but after applying for an R&D-related position, I felt it actually wasn't bad; the bonus system also sounds quite comprehensive (though of course I don't know how much one can actually receive XD).

It is widely rumored that this company's HR department likes to pad its performance figures (the positions they post aren't necessarily because they are actually hiring). After going through the interview process myself, I felt that was indeed the case... Before the interview, you have to fill in extremely detailed personal information—even the names and job titles of your siblings must be provided. On top of that, the test asks you to list the charitable and public-welfare activities the company has carried out, write out chemical equations, and so on, which is both ridiculous and amusing. After completing the test, I was interviewed by HR. The interview questions sounded like they came from a standardized template; however, while the applicant answered the questions, HR merely jotted down notes casually in the blank spaces of the documents at hand. It looked like they were just going through the motions XD

I spent about an hour in the HR interview (and approximately half an hour beforehand writing the test), but later received a rejection letter, so I did not proceed to the second-round interview. To be honest, after experiencing it firsthand, I personally don't think the HR staff were unprofessional, but I do agree with the online reviews that the positions this company posts aren't necessarily because they are actually hiring XD I hope this experience is useful for everyone's reference.

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The HR staff aren't professional enough to have a proper conversation.

Also, the interview requires you to take a test about your understanding of the company.

And you don't even get to interview with the hiring manager.

If you receive an interview invitation, you probably don't need to go.

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The same position keeps being posted, and the interviews take a lot of time. It feels like they’re just going through the motions.

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1. The reputation of this HR department can be found by searching Google. Whether making inquiries by phone or attending an interview at the company, the HR personnel are very unprofessional.

2. Perpetually open positions—you can see them recruiting year-round.

3. A typical old-fashioned Taiwanese company; there is no future to speak of at this company.