欣臨企業股份有限公司

One of the larger agencies

Outdated systems and office environment; bureaucratic, old-fashioned culture; very poor atmosphere at work; the boss often throws their weight around and berates employees, disregards professional expertise, and has poor internal communication.

Many agency brands

Benefits and salary need improvement, the environment is poor, senior executives and directors frequently berate people, there is no respect for professional expertise, and the team lacks a spirit of division of labor and collaboration. Only those who have worked here can imagine what it is like... Outsiders may think that having many brands means the company is very professional, but it really isn't.

1. Represents many products, with many employee purchase options

2. Business is easy to expand, as there is an established customer base

1. The system is outdated. I heard they are implementing a new system, but they seem to be rushing for quick results...

2. There is mutual deception between upper and lower management; I heard the bosses are surrounded by many lies...

3. Everyone does their own thing, with no communication....

4. The culture of currying favor is widespread...

5. They do not seek thorough understanding and do not value professionalism...

During the interview, the chairman kindly shared information and introduced the company, giving me a deeper understanding of the industry. Although I may not necessarily be hired, I still gained a lot from the interview process.

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After attending the year-end banquet, I heard that the Group's overall performance last year was nearly 5 billion, representing growth of over 20%. Achieving such results despite the somewhat sluggish consumer goods market in Taiwan makes me feel that this company offers great opportunities for development and a promising future!

Everything is pretty good; there aren't any at the moment!

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Heavy workload and unpaid overtime. If you work slowly, you’re said to lack ability; if you work quickly, you’re considered too idle and not given enough work.

The company has no established systems. The business team has no say and is treated as a messenger. Rules and procedures are changed back and forth.

The bonuses are pitiful. A quarterly bonus may be delayed for half a year before being paid.

Detaining employees’ bonuses

Frequent group dinners seem to help build relationships, with discussions about work and a drinking culture. Holiday bonuses are provided for the three major festivals, as well as a year-end bonus, though the amounts are pitifully small.

The company has been losing money continuously and has no future. The bonus system provides very little, and bonus payments are often delayed for several months. Even after employees resign, the company withholds their wages.

There are an overwhelming number of work tasks, the policies keep changing, and there is no system or standard.

They also expect employees to work under a responsibility-based system. If you do not want to waste your time or jeopardize future friendships, I suggest not joining.

The group represents a great many international brands, and a PM position is very suitable as a stepping stone to your next job.

Applicants are advised to first find out exactly which company they would be joining, and to clearly ask what brand and job responsibilities they would be handling.

- No systems or structure; it is a family business where the family has total control, filled with a culture of superficial political correctness and one-person rule.

- No strategy: treating symptoms instead of causes, taking things one day at a time, and sweeping matters under the rug whenever possible without regard for the facts (I even learned the abbreviation “BS” here!).

- There are many unaccountable, redundant employees at every level.

- Absurdity is the norm here; currying favor, flattery, burying one’s head in the sand, and being a sycophantic conformist are the ways to survive.

- The laughable company values are “fairness, friendship, and excellence”; their antonyms are the real truth.

- The company’s hardware and equipment are terrible overall. It uses difficult-to-operate old systems and laptops that regularly crash with no solution.

- The PM’s work covers everything, from A to Z, as a one-stop shop. You are expected to know every kind of subject (finance, management accounting, procurement, international trade practices, food regulations and labeling, marketing, customer service, warehouse management, and so on)—both what you can imagine and what you cannot. There is no customer service department, so PMs are the customer service themselves, and there is no legal department either. The whole company is full of “excellent” redundant employees. There is no such thing as training; PMs are simply expected to know everything. If you answer that you do not know or cannot do something, prepare to be chewed out. You may then also be held retrospectively responsible for all the unresolved, poorly handled messes and liabilities from before you joined the company or before you took responsibility for the matter.

The only advantage... The company is very large and multinational.

- A family-owned business; during working hours, employees are often asked to handle miscellaneous tasks for the chairman/general manager.

- During my employment, all the company computers’ Windows 10 systems were pirated versions~ Cracking the OS activation was one thing, but the IT department’s shared folders often contained illegally cracked copyrighted files (including pirated instructional materials... showing no respect for legitimate licenses).

- The department regularly required overtime, but I was unable to claim the meal allowance that should have been provided!

(After working hours, many sales assistants and sales staff were still working overtime! This was completely different from what I was told during the interview—that overtime would not be required.)

- The environment was dirty and messy, with cockroaches; the candy at the entrance often included expired products.

- The restroom was very small (although it was cleaned by dedicated staff, people still had to wait when it was occupied).

- The work was complicated, and I was frequently asked to do things that had not been discussed during the interview.

(This was supposedly part of the supervisor’s assigned tasks, but many of them were strange miscellaneous duties, as mentioned above.)

- Even for professional work at Shin Lin, employees had to search the internet and teach themselves~~ The company placed no emphasis on professional training and had no system at all!

(If I wanted to work as though I were at Google, why would I apply to Shin Lin? I should have submitted my résumé to Google instead.)

- Weak antivirus and cybersecurity awareness; the internal email system was frequently placed on external organizations’ blacklists because of the poor usage habits of a few people.

- This workplace is suitable for people who are good at handling miscellaneous tasks.... If you want to learn professional knowledge from your work, this is not the place for you to learn; instead, you will be sacrificing your health to handle miscellaneous tasks for a huge organization.

Regular working hours

The office environment is very dirty and messy, with cockroaches. Turnover is quite high. The systems are all internal and not very helpful, and they are also very cumbersome.

...Employees can use the holiday shopping credits to buy the company’s food products....Even after work, you can still see many people at their desks....

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High employee turnover

Some benefits do not comply with the Labor Standards Act…

A one-person-rule culture

Limited marketing budget; the sales team has no authority and can only act as a messenger

For channel sales work, you can apply for NT$8,000 per month for fuel and vehicle maintenance.

Clock in when you arrive at work; colleagues take turns clocking you out when you leave.

One month’s year-end bonus.

You can learn a lot because you have to do everything yourself.

The Taichung office is an old, run-down townhouse with a betel-nut stall sign hanging outside; the interior is simple and cluttered.

There is no monthly bonus, only a quarterly bonus (based on the quarter’s marketing profit).

For the three traditional festivals, you can purchase company products at an extremely low employee discount (there are no gifts or bonuses whatsoever; apparently, buying company products is considered a benefit).