To be honest my Interview process was very smoothly. Negotiation was very open, HR department was kind and they were super patient in order for me to gather all the required documentation. The company is super open and more importantly is growing fast, there are so many oportunities working in here.
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I interviewed for the PM position, and both HR and the hiring manager were very attentive and professional.
The job responsibilities are also very appealing.
Being responsible for global products as a PM is a great opportunity.
I hope to join this company successfully~
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Support from good colleagues
There are terrifying colleagues who act like informants, reporting on everyone and shifting blame onto one another.
The internal competition is extremely serious. There is a sense of helplessness, powerlessness, immense pressure, and conflict between departments.
Everything internally happens in private chats; hardly anyone speaks in the office anymore.
There is almost no interaction or communication among internal staff.
The HR department, general manager, and chairman are extremely incompetent. This is a company that does not treat people as talent.
The company takes people’s hard work and achievements for granted, but when someone makes a mistake, the consequences are severe.
The company’s internal organizational personnel are reshuffled every six months. You never know the company’s slightly longer-term direction or plans because things change too quickly, and the bosses do not communicate.
The general manager/chairman has three companies to look after and is especially fond of his electric vehicle company, so this company receives very little attention.
You are expected to achieve 100 points in your work. Otherwise, you know what the consequences will be.
A zero-tolerance company.
A company that only sees people’s shortcomings and not their strengths.
Many people feel that the company could shut down at any time, creating a strong sense of insecurity.
Many of the ratings seen online were manipulated by the company’s own internal staff.
I sincerely do not recommend this company. There are many good opportunities elsewhere, so please do not waste your youth, time, and energy here.
It is a pity that there is no extremely poor rating; otherwise, I would have chosen it.
I haven't heard of any.
The interviewer seemed arrogant and full of himself. Throughout the interview, all he could say was “Go on.” I’m dying laughing.
Most colleagues are easy to get along with, and the bonuses and year-end bonuses have been pretty good in recent years.
The new leadership has brought in a lot of new cultural practices and fostered a learning-oriented atmosphere.
The long-standing HR department has always been an obstacle to the company’s growth. The head of HR clings stubbornly to pensions and stocks, does not grow personally, and even prevents employees from expressing their opinions—a frightening secret-police-like department.
They put on a show of asking employees for suggestions to improve the company, then review and scrutinize those suggestions. It is probably not much different from the Chinese Communist Party’s vote to elect the president of the country.
HR’s function is to flatter the top boss and pass along prayers, while interfering with the management of every department under the guise of being above and independent of all departments, then criticizing each department from the perspective of an outsider.
The company’s products are difficult to bring to market, which may be related to the boss’s perfectionism. They keep circling around the same things and getting stuck on the same specifications.
As long as you get your work done, you can leave on time. There’s no need to put on an act, because everyone leaves work on time. Most colleagues are pretty good; some are willing to teach newcomers. It depends on whether you’re lucky.
There are often opportunities to travel to the United States on business. People in departments such as sales, customer service, logistics, and R&D may have a chance to go to the U.S. if they are fluent in spoken and listening English. You can even use company money to attend Apple’s WWDC in the U.S. When applying for a laptop or desktop computer, you can request an Apple device. Employees in the red division can buy a higher-end model and upgrade it further at their own expense. Employees in the black division can also apply with a legitimate reason, but they will only get the lowest-tier model.
The office design is quite unusual, with trees and grass, and somewhat resembles a minimalist construction-site style. I was pleasantly surprised when I first came for an interview, but after working there for a while, I was shocked, because rats frequently appeared during the workday.
I had not been here long when, after the vice president left, several senior managers began resigning one after another—RD, PM, Sales, ID, and QA. I heard that none of them received certificates stating that they had been involuntarily laid off, and most did not receive severance pay. As I understand it, each person’s departure was related to the “witch.” They had not made any major mistakes at work; perhaps they had offended her privately or failed to follow her ideas completely, so she would find ways to spread rumors and discredit them. People online say that unmarried women are dangerous, and she certainly gave me a firsthand demonstration.
I later found out that, in order to target someone in ID, she went to great lengths to swap the seating of people on the third and fourth floors and separate the ID equipment from that person’s seat. This also forced us to change seats and suffer the consequences. It was truly outrageous. Now that the person has been driven out, the seating has been restored. It was simply a complete mess.
The company’s organization has now become very strange. A brand-design company has no ID or PM staff; salespeople have been transferred to the Planning Department to do product planning; software testers are working as FAE staff; and software developers are managing QA. The atmosphere in the office is very strange. It feels as though no new products are in progress, and nobody knows what everyone is busy with. Some colleagues think the company is deliberately cutting longtime employees to reduce personnel costs, and told me not to worry too much. For now, it seems that only Sales and Software are busy. Sales staff can attend exhibitions in the U.S. while traveling, which is pretty nice, but don’t expect to learn anything from the sales manager—she only tells us to keep trying. Meanwhile, the general manager now appears only about once a week. His focus is no longer on this company, and he has left everything to the “witch” to manage. It’s time to start looking for another job.
There is a small factory where you can make models, giving you the opportunity to work hands-on. You can also experience some new technology products alongside the PM.
From a work perspective, I feel that the company’s direction and guidelines are unclear. Although the managers and the boss believe the direction is very clear—even wondering how employees could not know what it is—the company went two years without producing a new product. At first, a vice president who headed the PM function provided direction, but one day the vice president suddenly resigned for unknown reasons. Senior management became very anxious about having no new products to sell, and as their anxiety grew, the schedule became increasingly compressed and urgent. We often had to attend impromptu meetings arranged according to senior management’s schedule, but proposals had to be presented with models. The direction given by our manager did not necessarily align with what senior management wanted, so it often felt as though we had gone in circles without making any progress. This led to a period when we frequently had to work frantically until midnight, yet the company provided neither dinner nor overtime pay. Senior management once said that when the company’s performance grew rapidly, they definitely would not treat everyone unfairly. In fact, the company’s performance had already improved and it was making money—we even once opened champagne to celebrate—but I never saw any notice of a raise.
The work in the design department is very diverse. In addition to the product design we were originally responsible for, we also had to design exhibition spaces for the annual education expo. To save money, the company asked the design department to help the sales department produce all the props and booths needed for the exhibition, including everything that would be used, advance testing, assembly instructions, and planning in advance what each display item was for. Like a mother, we had to pack everything they needed neatly into suitcases so they could simply pick them up and leave. Product descriptions, packaging boxes, all sorts of things needed for the boss’s private gatherings, repairs to the female owner’s broken jewelry, props for the princess’s birthday parties, and other miscellaneous tasks were also handled by the design department. However, performance evaluations only counted whether new products were produced.
The products primarily target teachers and students in the U.S. K–12 education market, but we had not received an American education ourselves. We suggested to senior management that they help us communicate directly with customers, but nothing came of it. After countless proposals, the feedback from senior management was different every time, leaving us powerless and physically and mentally exhausted. After the company was inspected by the labor authorities, we were effectively made to clock out first and then continue working. Then, one morning, the company suddenly laid people off on the grounds that a change in business operations had reduced the need for workers. Those being laid off were also required to leave by noon that same day.
That night, I dreamed that someone told me they had heard the company had been inspected by the labor authorities three times, and that it was only fined after the matter could no longer be suppressed. It seemed that someone felt they had lost face, so they targeted the department most likely to work overtime in the entire company. This dream reminded me that the first time I stayed at the company until 10 p.m. was to handcraft gifts for the boss’s private gathering... Oh, right! The company may look American-style at first glance, but it is actually still more like a traditional manufacturing business; you need to understand some unspoken rules, such as knowing how to flatter people.