兆利科技工業股份有限公司

Working hours:

1. 8:00 to 17:00 (with a flexible half-hour); most of the time, you can leave on time.

2. One-hour lunch break (12:00–13:00).

Benefits:

1. NT$100 snack allowance (for use at the coin-operated vending machine).

2. Company activities and group meals (once or twice a year).

Parking spaces:

1. They do exist (first come, first served; spaces are limited and fill up quickly).

Other:

1. Most colleagues are reasonably okay—about half of them.

2. The pressure is not extremely high. There is occasional on-call duty, but it is still manageable.

Year-end bonus:

When the company is doing well, it should be up to three months; when things are not going well, one month.

That’s all. I’ve already done my best to think of the positives.

1. You often need to go out on your own. When you return, there is often no parking space, and you will periodically end up arguing with the security guards. Some of the guards are actually pretty nice, so I’ll say that in fairness.

2. The company still has some pests: people who act like entitled old-timers (with faces that look like they are owed millions) and adult babies (who dump every task on others while lying around enjoying themselves).

There is also a “senior manager” who loves meddling in everything and has absolutely no way of thinking from the employees’ perspective.

It is extremely unfriendly to people just entering the workforce. You need to have a good temper, otherwise you will not be able to endure it.

1. There is only one microwave at noon, and you cannot even go a few minutes early to heat your food. Many people just stare blankly at one another while waiting for lunch; if you wait long enough, the entire one-hour lunch break is over.

2. They also do not allow logo-bearing bags to be brought into the company. However, the company itself does not provide bags. If I have a pile of tools and parts to take outside, am I supposed to carve them out with my mouth? Or are you going to be my bag?

3. The company’s stairs are as steep as a roller coaster. Not only do they refuse to improve them, they instead say that employees should have been more careful and not fallen. I don’t know which genius came up with that. Not hiring you as a salesperson is one of the company’s biggest losses.

4. Performance evaluations feel like they are just filled out for fun. Even if you do a lot of work and have a good-looking evaluation, what you receive is not proportional. Meanwhile, some people work overtime constantly without producing results and still get a lot just by asking. Of course, this varies by department; this part depends on luck and your ability to curry favor.

5. You will even be pressured to hurry up and use up your overtime hours. They will ask upper management to put pressure on you. It is disgusting. If they do not want to pay, they should just say so. The company says it wants to increase revenue and reduce expenses, but it turns out that means reducing expenses at the cost of our salaries…

6. The people above often have a pile of ideas and rush the people below to carry them out, but usually there is no follow-up. I already have five high-loading cases on my plate, and after being forced to finish plugin-related work, I still get criticized. Work is distributed extremely unevenly, while the idle people remain very idle… I really do not understand what is wrong.

7. The salary is not very generous (I will not disclose the amount). After all, the pressure is indeed relatively low, so weigh this for yourself—there are pros and cons.

7. Anyone who has seriously read this knows how to choose, right?

Working hours are 8:30–5:30. If you care about your car being exposed to the sun and rain, you need to arrive by 8:10; if you arrive later, parking is difficult and you have to squeeze into a spot. Otherwise, you may have no choice but to park on the sidewalk across the street. There are many migrant workers on the sidewalk, and during lunch breaks they sometimes sit in their cars. The sidewalk and the area inside the company are exposed parking spaces. If you park at the company, you have to move your car every day—you or someone else has to move your car. The cars are parked extremely close together, and it is impossible to get your car out without moving them, so scratches are difficult to avoid.

For a traditional industry, the salary and benefits are above average. At noon, the cafeteria sells meals, and there are vending machines for drinks and snacks. RD employees earn around 4xK per month, with an annual salary of approximately 630K. Although you have to arrive early to find a parking space, overtime is generally not required after work. The supervisors and colleagues are easy to get along with.

The building is somewhat old and dirty, and parking is difficult.

None

Only worked at the Shanghai plant.

Besides the unclear division of responsibilities, departments make things difficult for one another. Think twice before taking a middle-management position; you will most likely be a scapegoat.

For general positions, you need to be highly self-disciplined if you want to learn anything.

None

Although it is a company listed on the Taipei Exchange, there are still many shortcomings. The company is divided into several business units, and it feels like everything is about group tactics. You need to be somewhat calculating to survive there for long. Newcomers need to stay on their toes, as the veterans have little patience for training people, so the turnover rate is very high. The salary can only be described as not high.

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I’ve been to the Shanghai plant several times. The current workplace environment is terrible. Engineers providing on-site support have to coordinate with clients until after midnight from Monday through Saturday, and engineers stationed at the plant have it even worse. The business trip allowance is only 80 RMB per day—an absurdly low amount!!! The vice president of R&D Division 1 takes advantage of people shamelessly, squeezing entry-level staff whenever possible. Fuck!!!

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A few years ago, during the interview, I was first taken to a small room to complete written tests, including a résumé form, an English test (TOEIC level), and an aptitude test.

After finishing, I moved to a conference room for an interview with the HR manager. After that, a young man came in to ask questions related to the position.

Not long after we started talking, the department manager began the interview. There were three interviewers present in total.

Finally, the main event came: the manager said that I had to sign a two-year contract and could not resign, telling me to think carefully and saying, “I know many vendors.”