今口香調理食品股份有限公司-總公司

I went for an interview, so I can only share my impressions of the “interview.”

I was offered the position, but I ultimately did not take the job because I did not particularly like the location and it appeared that I would have to take on multiple roles. They also said that my ability to speak English was one of the reasons I received extra consideration.

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It is a food factory located in an industrial area. After reporting to the management office and exchanging my identification for a visitor pass, I entered the building on the left and began filling out my résumé. Once I finished, the interviewer came in and began the interview. The interviewer had an accent that sounded somewhat ABC-like—a Chinese appearance but English as his first language. I later learned that he was an American citizen. During the interview, he discovered that I could speak English, so he switched to conducting the interview in English. He explained and introduced the job responsibilities to me. He was a manager, and the position involved marketing and graphic design work in his department. However, because his team was not yet fully staffed, I would occasionally need to help with administrative duties. This department was responsible for marketing a new brand, but the role would also involve helping with some administrative and retail-store work. Once the team was fully staffed, the focus would shift to graphic design and marketing.

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The entire interview process was quite professional, and there was nothing uncomfortable about it. The questions asked were all related to the job, and the interviewer had a good attitude. He also introduced the company’s products and the job responsibilities to me, and showed me around the company premises. Overall, it was a fairly good experience.

1. The department appeared to be new. After arriving at the office, I saw a separate space next to it, and there was no one inside.

2. It is a food factory located beside a river embankment, within an industrial area.

3. It appeared that I would have to take on multiple roles: in addition to graphic design, I would also be responsible for marketing. I was later told that I would also need to help at the retail store, so the role did not seem to be clearly defined.

Invests a lot and has very innovative products (?)

Psychologically abuses employees and pressures them to resign to save on severance pay

Constantly questions employees who apply for overtime; ideally, they want free labor

Pay is close to the minimum wage; employees have to pay half the cost of lunch themselves, and no dinner is provided for overtime

Has a parking lot

Shouldn't go under

The newspaper said they would build a new plant

Putting everything else aside, I was invited to interview for the same position at this company ten years ago, and was invited again this year.

But,

The interview form hasn't changed at all.

That's when I knew I still didn't want to join this company.

Extremely unstable yet extremely stable.

I have continually seen the company try to replace some senior executives, but over the past ten years, one senior executive has left every two or three years.

There have also always been certain senior executives and employees who stay forever. Regardless of what these constantly changing executives try to implement, the people who are always here remain the same and continue to work with the same mindset and in the same way.

In terms of turnover, this kind of unstable stability makes me wonder whether it is a case of inferior companies driving out the superior ones—or whether the company simply struggles to integrate new concepts.

I no longer know whether I should offer the company good advice about changing the things that need to be changed. Times have changed. Manipulating reviews is only superficial and cannot resolve the actual experiences of people after they are hired, nor the resignations that may result.

To be honest, things will not improve until senior management starts changing its way of thinking. The reason is simple: times have changed, and the composition of the future workforce will be different. Yet from what I have seen, none of the senior executives at King Food currently has a concept of branding or marketing.

Even if someone comes from a highly capable food manufacturer, that manufacturer may not have required its production unit to operate the brand or handle marketing. Even if someone previously worked for a well-known flavor company, that period may not have been one in which the flavor company was intentionally developing its brand. Therefore, that experience and understanding are of little use to King Food. King Food knows how to manufacture, but does not know how to operate a brand; there is no one with the relevant perspective to listen to, so recruitment becomes a scattershot approach.

But branding and marketing are areas that require a proper conceptual foundation to do well. Otherwise, it is perfectly normal for people to leave. At that point, criticizing those who leave is meaningless, because the company is the one that needs to hire people. There is already a severe labor shortage, and it is employers competing for capable people. Those without competitiveness will always struggle to find work. Whether recruiting or job hunting, the people with choices are the ones who hold the advantage.

The long list of shortcomings boils down to this: the internal operation lacks senior executives with a grasp of future trends and continues to view talent through the same old model. Even if the factory keeps expanding, in the long run there is a strong possibility that it will remain merely a contract manufacturer for others.

This is reality: with such a severe labor shortage, what does King Food have to compete for talent? Has King Food thought this through?

Whether you are proactively changing career paths or looking for your next job because you lack the ability to perform your current one, it is inevitable that certain emotions will accompany the process. Positive emotions can help you move forward, while negative feelings need to be properly sorted through.

Whether your career transition is passive or proactive, organizing your thoughts, recharging, and then setting out again is an approach that works everywhere. As long as you do not let fluctuating emotions control the rhythm of your life and disrupt the steps you should take, new opportunities will surely appear.

Looking for the cause in yourself in everything is the first principle of changing your destiny.

As the saying goes, “A petty person never admits fault, while a noble person often reflects on their mistakes.” People with a lower level of thinking always feel that others are at fault and that they themselves have done nothing wrong, whereas people with a higher level of thinking often reflect on their own mistakes. As stated in the <i>Mencius</i>: “When your conduct does not produce the desired result, seek the cause within yourself.” When things go wrong or a relationship becomes strained, do not simply blame others; instead, look for the cause within yourself. Only those who are good at self-reflection can stand higher and go farther. Look for the cause in yourself in everything, gradually turning shortcomings into strengths and conflicts into harmony.

Just as when driving on a road, some roads are winding and others are straight—you simply need to adapt to circumstances. But when a traffic accident occurs, the first thing to consider is whether there was an error in your own driving. Simply complaining that the road is too winding or too difficult to travel is utterly meaningless! We can only accept these external, objective conditions; we cannot change them. The only thing we can change is ourselves.

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I am a family member of an employee at this company. Before the Lunar New Year, my child came home and told me that cabbage was in abundant supply this year and many farmers had suffered heavy losses. To help the farmers, the company’s owner bought several thousand cabbages and gave them away to residents for free. I also shared the news with my neighbors, and that day everyone in the neighborhood joined in by collecting free cabbages to support the farmers. Everyone was very grateful for the owner’s kindness, which helped the farmers have a good New Year~

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My mother has worked at King’s Cook for 32 years and is retiring this year at the age of 70.

I grew up eating King’s Cook pasta, and I also worked part-time at King’s Cook during my winter and summer vacations.

I majored in food science and am now serving as a mid-to-senior-level manager at King’s Cook.

My colleagues are very thoughtful, and the work atmosphere is great.

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Pros;

Their security guards are very polite. They keep several turtles under the betel nut trees, and they are very cute. I always go play with the turtles during my lunch break.

I’ve only been here for three months, so I can’t yet identify the pros and cons, but my colleagues are all very easy to get along with.

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The company is very internal, and the supervisors are extremely friendly. The chairman is an elderly young man full of vitality, the general manager is very kind, the vice president is very gentle, and the assistant general manager is very handsome... In short, it is a pretty good company.

The factory buildings are relatively old.

There are many advantages. Come and experience it for yourself. If you give up after reading negative reviews, that would be a shame. In any case, a company that large won't fail to pay your salary.

I'm in HR here and have only been here for six months. My supervisor and colleagues are all very willing to teach me.

When I was hired, my husband saw the negative reviews and told me not to come, but this workplace is close to home, and I can pick up my child on the way home after work, so I couldn't bear to give it up.

Later, thinking back to how friendly the interviewer was, and considering that the company has more than 500 employees and plans to build a new plant nearby, I thought it probably wouldn't be that bad. I persuaded my husband and joined the company.

As it turned out, I'm glad I made that decision at the time; it's quite a good company.

Job seekers, if you don't join after reading the negative reviews, that would be a shame.

In recent years, the company has become more structured and its benefits have also improved. This can be seen in various details, such as regularly holding employee training sessions or retirement farewell parties, offering employee purchase discounts on products, regularly conducting surveys to change meal-service vendors, subsidizing the cost of each meal, supplying stationery, setting up a nursing room, having doctors periodically provide on-site consultations, allowing leave to be taken in 0.5- or 1-hour increments depending on the type of leave, expanding the employee parking lot, and organizing monthly or quarterly employee activities. All of these demonstrate the company's thoughtfulness and progress.

1. Some departments have high supervisor turnover or lack supervisors.

2. Salaries are not necessarily adjusted in line with inflation.

I've been here for almost two years. With the support of senior management, the ERP system went live last year, and the network system, electronic forms, and ISO document system have also all been implemented and are now operational one by one. The company's systems and processes are gradually being established. In fact, in some respects, senior management has also been very proactive in driving the company forward. I hope construction of the new plant can begin soon, so that we can have a good working environment and better compensation and benefits as soon as possible.

1. The factory building is old, and the working environment could be better.

2. Too many projects are being carried out at the same time, resulting in quite a few project Line groups.

I’ve been here for almost three years, and I don’t think it’s that bad. Although the factory is relatively old, the company is also planning to build a new facility, so there’s something to look forward to.

The company’s systems and processes are also gradually being established, and at least working hours are punctual.

It’s more difficult for new employees to become familiar with the work if no one guides them.

Other reviews have already made the points...

The only two advantages are that it is close to home,

and that after no longer daring to eat frozen food, my health improved.

Basically, my advice to this company is to shut down—for Taiwan’s sake.

Here are five words of advice for those who come after: “Push, stick it in, dig, dodge, hug”; following them will let you get through smoothly.

The factory buildings are old, dilapidated, and poorly designed; most of the equipment is nearly obsolete. Problems with new machines keep cropping up. The senior management is all made up of insiders, and their experience is laughable. Below senior management, turnover is astonishingly high. Whenever something goes wrong, it is someone else’s fault; whenever there is credit to claim, it goes to the insiders. Operations are declining, yet those at the top continue to rise rapidly... Saying more would only be a waste of breath... All I can say is that they pass the government audits year after year, which speaks for itself....

The pros could be said to be that there probably aren't any, right? You could also say there are absolutely none! Resigning and leaving this place will be among the few truly correct choices in life.

Over the past year, they actually cut the annual health examinations for several departments, and even used pleasant-sounding excuses, saying that because certain departments do not come into contact with food, they do not need to undergo special food-handling medical examinations, and other such nonsense.

Certain departments have ovens that make the workplace particularly hot, so they used to receive an additional allowance. But during these colder months, they cut it, saying that because it is cold outside, employees working on the oven floor will be warm anyway, so there is no additional environmental allowance. They keep cutting allowances using all kinds of methods and excuses.

Maybe the company is trying to save money to build a new building. With working conditions this exploitative, why would they even want to start a new business?

For overtime, starting from the second hour, you have to take a 30-minute break every two hours. In other words, the half hour from 2:00 to 2:30 is unpaid. But how could a production line actually stop for half an hour and then resume work? It is basically taking advantage of employees. Who does not want to finish quickly and go home? Yet they insist on forcing you to take this half-hour break.

You even have to go to Human Resources yourself to collect your birthday allowance. Why not distribute it uniformly to the group leaders to hand out? If you do not go to collect it before the deadline, they say it is gone? So what happens to the allowances issued by the Accounting Department? Does Human Resources absorb them themselves? (This is something I heard from another coworker.)

Very bad

The assistant general manager in the general manager’s office leads the effort to disrupt production and sales. They say pleasing things to upper management, implement policies incompletely, and don’t care when employees fail to cooperate—those who do cooperate are fools. They force employees to switch from the afternoon shift to the morning shift, provide no benefits, and don’t care if employees resign.

This company is very traditional, but I feel that it improves every year. It reintroduced an ERP system this year, so some patience is needed.

Most employees have extensive seniority and are unfamiliar with information systems.

Someone will proactively check in on the status of filling out the forms, but writing in the public roundtable is quite awkward.

They provide pictures to help understand the on-site situation; the work is likely to be highly repetitive.

The salary and benefits are fairly decent, but not yet attractive.

The parking lot is very large

The HR manager and the department manager conducted the interview together. The job duties I was asked about were significantly different from those posted on 104. The HR manager even tried to cut the salary because I lacked relevant experience. So, what exactly was the job content I interviewed for—the one posted, or the so-called support tasks you mentioned??? How ridiculous! The reviews are bad enough already, yet you still want to hire people.

Can only afford to hire monkeys

Be careful to negotiate your salary clearly, otherwise one day the boss might change their mind and not want to pay it, then deduct all at once whatever salary they consider to be extra, and afterward pay only the base salary!!

Unable to find any advantages within the limited interview time.

The standard “Overwhelming requirements, laughable compensation.”

This was the first time I encountered a company that recruited through a headhunter yet offered a salary lower than my current one.

Moreover, HR matter-of-factly said that because the company’s salary structure is relatively low, this was already a very good offer...

Although I have never worked there, I tend to believe that the situations shared by the previous reviewers are all real.

Think carefully before deciding whether to interview or work there...

Menstrual leave

The company has a mountain of internal rules. The more capable you are, the more work you get—but here, capable people are simply overworked.

People with ability are exploited by their supervisors until not a single drop is left, and the company will not thank you for it.

When they are short-staffed, current employees are expected to endure the hardship together, working overtime to death, and you still may not be able to claim overtime pay.

No matter how much you give to the company, it will never thank you more; it will only take advantage of you.

Once they have used you up, they throw you away. That is the feeling I get.

At first, when you have just joined, they will create the illusion that everyone is very nice. After a while, their fangs will come out and they will devour you completely. In the end, you will only become a lump of shit.

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Who would want to come work for the ridiculously low salary they offer?

The benefits are very poor—basically, there are no benefits, except that you can take home finished products after the company has inspected them to eat (and there are only a few tasty ones).

Don’t even think about an annual bonus. The base salary is only 16,000, and you have to add this and that to reach the figure they initially offered you. The annual bonus is half a month—but half of your base salary, haha. Don’t even think about the three traditional holiday bonuses either: a 200-dollar gift voucher (and it’s not even cash).

The supervisor’s logic is completely異於常人 and they are extremely difficult to communicate with. When they need to ask you for a favor, they make it sound very nice; but when you need to ask them for something, they nitpick and come up with a whole host of problems.

Honestly, there really aren't any.

Except that some of my coworkers are pretty nice.

When the higher-ups mess up, the little people take the blame.

Veterans are very good at putting on airs.

Newbies even have to handle cross-departmental matters.

There are no systems or SOPs for many things.

There are a bunch of people with bizarre logic who are impossible to communicate with.

Policies change from one day to the next; even things that have already been approved may be changed again.

If I say too much, I’ll be accumulating bad karma through my speech.

I’ll leave the rest for everyone to figure out yourselves.

Absolutely none—not even a little.

Working at this company is like starring in an eight-o’clock soap opera: bizarre beyond compare, spectacular beyond compare!

It’s just like Kinder Surprise eggs—every one you open brings a surprise! (Once you clock in there, every day is full of surprises!)

If you want to watch a drama, experience being an actor on the spot, and enjoy playing along with quick improvisation, welcome to work at this company!

This company has none of the “three benefits”: no year-end bonus, no benefits, and no overtime pay. What it does have is a whole lot of things it doesn’t have~

The one thing there’s no shortage of is crap—there’s a whole pile to shovel!

Those who are naturally optimistic, extremely interested in working as poop scoopers, and have plenty of free time are welcome to come over and exchange experiences!

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At 7:26 in the morning, a gentleman called and said he was a professor at Feng Chia and Tunghai, saying, “We’re currently recruiting a marketing manager, and your résumé is a great fit. What’s the earliest you could start? What salary are you looking for?” I said I could only start next month and was looking for NT$38K. He said, “Oh, oh. Basically, I’ve been doing e-commerce in mainland China for several years. Our company is currently taking off rapidly, so basically we need someone who can get up to speed quickly.” I asked, “May I ask what the working hours are?” He said, “Huh? You do e-commerce and you still care about working hours? Basically, you can work either at the company or at home, whatever you prefer.” (I was speechless!!) I said, “But I need time to hand over my current duties.” He said, “Just start on March 1. You can go back to hand things over whenever you need to.” Then, in a tone that made him sound extremely busy, he said, “Okay… shall I schedule a time with you now? Come for an interview this morning, then start work on March 1. Is that okay?” “Okay, it’s settled then. The chairman is right next to me. Great, that’s it.” Then he hung up, completely disregarding whether I agreed.

Ten minutes later, the gentleman called again. “You’re a fellow student at XX University? Oh, oh, I’m also a professor at XX.” I thought, “= = Didn’t you just say Tunghai and Feng Chia…?” Then he said, “Sorry, the chairman was next to me just now, so it wasn’t convenient for me to talk. When would you be available to come today? Or sometime after that?” I said, “Would Thursday be okay? It would be too rushed for me to go over now.” He said, “How about this afternoon? The chairman and I happen to both be here today.” I thought, forget it—it seemed genuinely difficult for him to arrange a time—so I agreed to go at 5 p.m. He then said, “How about 5:30? That would work better. It’s basically the same as five, so just arrive at 5:30.” I said okay.

But afterward = = there was no phone call or notification. I had taken the afternoon off, and he sent me a message through the job bank saying: “Today’s schedule is too rushed, so I’ve rescheduled you for 4 p.m. Friday.” = = What the heck!!!

Having weekends and national holidays off is the only advantage.

The company's systems are unbelievably dysfunctional.

There is severe blame-shifting between departments.

The turnover rate is extremely high, whether among frontline employees or senior managers (it's not at all unusual for someone to leave after working for just 2–3 months).

The company has no intention of developing talent; it simply hires replacements whenever needed, so it doesn't care about anything.

There is absolutely no room for development. Even if you do your job well and stay for a long time, your salary will not increase, and promotions are difficult.

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The company is neither large nor small,

but there is hardly any system or structure to speak of.

There are, however, plenty of bizarre internal rules.

The things mentioned during the interview—such as being able to claim overtime or take compensatory leave—were all just empty promises.

It’s best to leave work early.

There are no holiday bonuses,

and the year-end bonus is pitifully small.

The turnover rate in the department is extremely high,

and the managers don’t care either.

Those who stay become increasingly powerless and demoralized the longer they work here.

I’ve worked at quite a few companies,

and this is by far the most astounding.

If I had to force myself to name a strength, I honestly couldn’t come up with one.

I suggest everyone not waste their time coming here...