雄獅鉛筆廠股份有限公司

I can’t think of any at the moment

When I left, I was finally able to get away from that group of so-called “professionals.” Some supervisors, you know, rely on their seniority every day. The moment they open their mouths, it’s always, “I have more experience; what I say goes,” as if they can order everyone else around and keep them frantically busy without doing anything themselves. Whenever you try to ask a question, they start reciting the classic line, “Back in my day, this is how I did it...” and then don’t come down to do the work themselves.

They spend all day on the phone. Going to work means checking emails and talking on the phone—nothing else.

The supervisor is always assigning a pile of work that has absolutely nothing to do with our responsibilities. They keep talking about having a “capable assistant,” which would be fine if they didn’t always give special treatment to their beloved female colleague. They probably don’t care at all who is busy working or who is working overtime. As long as their favorite person can smile, nothing else matters.

There is also a team in one department that is incredibly relaxed every day. They come to the company like civil servants, strolling around without a care in the world. They do their own thing during work hours, and whether their performance is good or not apparently doesn’t have much impact on their bonuses. I have to admit, I’m quite envious of that leisurely, carefree attitude toward work. Compared with those frontline workers who work themselves to the bone and constantly put in overtime, it’s a world of difference.

And then there are all those “things I didn’t do” that they insist on pinning on me. The company’s unreasonable behavior really makes you feel that there is no justice or logic—only the exercise of power and domineering decisions. This management style is so absurd that it makes you wonder whether you’re living in a joke. You might as well treat it as one, since I don’t want to waste any more time in a place like this.

After working there for so long, I finally decided to leave. I still feel that getting away from these people was the right choice.

There are no pros.

This is an extremely terrible family-run business.

The management in each department is, on average, around 50 years old or older.

The chairman and the plant manager each have their own favored “management teams.”

When problems arise, they do not read emails, shirk their responsibilities, and do not resolve issues even in meetings.

There are no consequences for passing the buck because someone has their back.

Those who have no responsibility do not need to retire and can happily collect their salaries until they are buried.

The entire company’s expertise is stuck in the last century, and they still love to misattribute the causes of problems; when proven wrong, they become angry and embarrassed.

After working there for 20–30 years, they still cannot even control their own processes.

Worse than furnace slag—a complete gathering place for garbage.

Anyone who reads all of the above and still wants to work here has only themselves to blame.

Not a single review is positive. It is truly pitiful.

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There is hot water for instant noodles and ice-cold water that is refreshingly cool.

If you’re considering applying because of the company’s reputation, think twice. The exterior is polished, and inside there are enthusiastic “senior colleagues” who will guide you in all kinds of tasks.

The senior colleagues have a strong sense of justice. Whenever they see something unfair, they will definitely set the record straight and demand fairness. Their guiding principle is that a team should share both hardships and successes. You can’t use your phone or slack off during work; if you do, it means you’re not working. But when the senior colleagues have nothing to do, chatting, browsing their phones, and ordering lunch are considered reasonable!

The managers understand both life and work. During downtime at work, they browse their phones, check the stock market, and share stories about their families so you can gain experience.

In summary, the work itself is simple. If you’re too straightforward, think twice. Highly recommended for people over 40 who just want to get by and earn a living; there are many colleagues who joined when they were nearing 40 or already in their 40s.

There is free lunch every day

Although it’s not very tasty

80% of the pain in life comes from going to work

But if you don’t go to work, 100% of the pain comes from having no money

So between going to work and having no money

I chose to go to work...

What I find most unbearable is 【meetings】

I’ve found that during meetings,

everyone is:

Moved while listening, excited while thinking, but does absolutely nothing afterward

Meetings with many people are not important

Important meetings have few people

Small problems are solved with big meetings

Big problems are solved with small meetings

Major problems are solved without meetings

The people who attend meetings don’t do the work

The people who do the work don’t get the chance to attend meetings

Colleagues and supervisors only know how to mock and scold, spouting off as if they know everything

They think they’re coming from Banqiao to help... pretending to help while actually mocking us

Even more ironically, the supervisor of a certain department doesn’t seem to have a quality-control background either

I can only advise newcomers not to offend him

BTW, there’s also a little giant on-site whom you shouldn’t offend either

Perhaps I work so hard

just to give my supervisor a better life

The Longtan production line is an otherworldly place, with a new factory building, a clean environment, and employee meals.

The Longtan production line is an otherworldly place. There is no technical knowledge to speak of. To learn anything, you also have to make small talk and gossip for X people to hear. They teach you when they feel like it and refuse to teach you when they do not. In the end, when some people who cannot stand it teach you, things become serious once X people find out. Whenever a machine breaks down and you go to ask X people, the first thing they say is, “Why did you move or touch things randomly?” It is truly baffling. During repairs, they always send you away, and after the problem is resolved, they do not tell you why the machine broke down. In the end, all you learn is how to start the machine and produce, then shut it down when production ends. From time to time, you are assigned non-machine-related packaging work and have to fill out a pile of reports. When you make a mistake, the person managing the reports appears beside you with an X-face and does not tell you what was wrong—you have to find it yourself. What the heck!

They constantly target and make things difficult for people who belong to the wrong faction, and occasionally spread a pile of rumors to make people prejudge who is bad. In the end, people become disheartened and leave the company. It happens in an endless cycle. Some of those who have not left the company are already dead inside; they quietly do their work and avoid trouble whenever possible. There is no prospect for development at all.

As long as your hands and feet work, you do not talk back, and you do not have ideas of your own, you can work there until retirement without a problem. But if you have ideas, talk back, and do not equip yourself with the Longtan production line’s otherworldly system’s SSR skills (having a sweet mouth, knowing how to flatter people, and digging up secrets to report), then I advise you to think carefully before applying.

Free parking, employee meals, a large and clean venue, bonuses when business is good, and in winter—which is the off-season—it can be somewhat quiet, allowing you to leave work on time.

I also work at Longtan Imagination Factory. It is a somewhat desolate tourist factory located partway up a mountain. My experience and comments are about Longtan; I know a little about the Banqiao location, and coworkers pass information back and forth. The key point is that the core management team is sent from Banqiao, so in terms of company culture, both locations are managed under the same system. However, after working there for a while, managers from Banqiao deliberately emphasize their own status and hierarchy. They treat you merely as an employee who carries out assigned tasks—someone who follows orders and waits for assignments.

At first, I applied because I was attracted by the four characters “雄X文具” in the company name. During the interview, the manager repeatedly emphasized how large and impressive this long-established company was, how excellent its systems were, and how good the salary and benefits were, saying that if you stayed loyal, it would be a stable job. Only after joining did I realize that I had truly been daydreaming... My sincere advice is to think very carefully and exercise caution before submitting a résumé to this company. Basically, employees who leave this tourist factory are not very happy, regardless of which team they were in. Alas! If you follow this company, you will notice that positions at Longtan are almost always being advertised. That is because people do not stay long—not because business is good and the company is expanding. As for the corporate culture, the department heads are basically all old-timers—truly very old ones. Except for relatives of the owners, second-generation executives, and the so-called princess, you always have to speak to them in a deferential, asking-for-permission tone when working with them. Their views are deeply entrenched, and they love bringing up past events to flaunt their seniority. Simply put, they do not really listen to employees’ ideas; even when they appear to, it is only for show. Over time, you may become assimilated and lose your ability to make independent judgments. For this old company to innovate, it may genuinely have to wait until this group of veteran officials retires before anything changes. If you are willing to obey, accept your place, and have extreme patience when dealing with elders, you might consider it.

People in the Planning Department are constantly resigning. Some have their probation periods extended, some are considered insufficiently capable, and some are disliked by their supervisors and eventually forced out. In short, this department is quite peculiar. They never proactively seek out work or develop activities to improve the tourist factory’s performance; they always wait to be assigned tasks. After staying for a while, you finally understand how they feel: every matter requires endless waiting, requests for approval, and long-winded, circular analyses, only for the supervisor to make the final decision. The process completely wears down people’s patience. Repeated rejection damages your confidence, making you passive and eventually unable to act. Senior managers will not proactively help you either; they only tell you to discuss it with the relevant people and then present a concrete argument. It is not as though you are writing a master’s thesis or submitting a government forward-looking development proposal—yet everything has to be made extremely complicated before they tell you, “I! Don’t! Want! It!” Middle managers will only keep brainwashing you, saying that the princess likes proactive people and that you need to come up with activities quickly and find ways to improve performance so that your evaluation will be good... They only ever talk, talk, and talk; they never help.

In on-site operations, you often do not know whose instructions to follow, because everyone wants to be in charge and wants to probe the boss’s intentions. Even scheduling sometimes depends on reading other people’s moods. During peak season, you had better be mentally prepared for the work allocation, because it will keep you busy to the point of exhaustion. Although you can ultimately receive a bonus, you need to have the all-around odd-job skills of someone who can do everything, because staff are rotated and expected to handle anything. Management here relies on surveillance cameras. If you occasionally slack off and are not good at pretending to be busy, you may get labeled. Some people love filing petty reports; to curry favor with supervisors and seek promotion, they criticize you harshly to highlight their own importance. So, if you want a promotion, do everything possible to accommodate the supervisor’s needs. When they come to Longtan at unpredictable times, write your little notebook as fully and meticulously as possible so you can claim credit.

One additional thing worth sharing is that coordinating with the factory can be hell. It is a group of elders—called “workplace old-timers”—who completely fail to understand what is being requested. They blindly flatter the director, while paying no attention whatsoever to the matters you ask them to handle. Sometimes their attitude is even arrogant and uncomfortable. They really resemble the kind of company on the verge of collapse that you see in mainland Chinese dramas: resistant to change, trapped in their own world, and focused only on pleasing the director. If you truly need their assistance, you may have to bow very low and learn to flatter and accommodate them.

The DIY instructors are generally considered stable. Compared with other teams, their turnover rate is relatively low. Oddly, however, activities here are led not by Planning but by them, because their supervisor is a veteran from Lion Travel’s Banqiao office with more than twenty years of seniority. Basically, everyone has to listen to him. Put simply, his team must take priority because the supervisor is accustomed to being in charge, and everyone has to defer to this senior veteran. He often directs everything. Even if you propose any idea, he will shoot it down and keep bringing up past events until you give up. Previously, the company organized a “野X” activity, with coworkers from Banqiao providing support. Everyone told this supervisor that the vendor was genuinely poor, with an inflated quotation and excessive profit margins, but he insisted on holding the event anyway. The result was that everyone was unhappy. The work was exhausting, the company did not make money, and instead spent a large sum paying the vendor. I really do not understand why they insist on doing things that are burdensome and unrewarding. Throughout the process, on-site operations could only cooperate and endure endlessly, allowing this vendor to take advantage of everything.

Coworkers who have stayed here longer also say that planners who have worked with this supervisor always resign after completing a project; some could not take it and left during preparation. He cultivates a sense of superiority and deliberately divides Banqiao and Longtan into two separate companies. Because he has been there long enough, he has also implanted the culture of the old company into the tourist factory, placing great importance on hierarchy and job titles. He knows nothing about numbers and has no concept of revenue. In this respect, the Planning Department is stronger. Besides the instructors, he is also responsible for the Design Department in Banqiao, whose staff are generally easy to communicate with. Whenever the boss suggests optimizing the tourist factory’s displays and merchandise, they merely listen without acting. Execution is very weak, and new company products are perpetually nowhere to be found.

I am less familiar with the Food and Beverage Department. As far as I understand, they also simply wait to be assigned tasks and imagine improvements without taking action.

In conclusion, you should really think carefully before applying. This place is seriously short-staffed, and the turnover rate is ridiculously high. If you are looking for a stable job with good compensation and benefits, you can PASS on this one.

1. The venue is newly built, with a pleasant and clean overall environment, and clean restrooms.

2. Free underground parking is available.

3. The expected benefits and bonuses are provided, although they are not substantial.

First, to clarify, my experience was at the Imagination Manufacturing Center in Longtan (a tourist factory), so everything mentioned in this review concerns the manufacturing center. However, I believe the situation at the Banqiao headquarters is probably similar, since the management team is the same and this is simply the corporate culture.

Before submitting your résumé, you might want to observe the job-posting activity for this company on the job bank. Positions are constantly opened and closed, then reopened after a few days, and every position is marked as urgent. Employee turnover is extremely high: more than 1x people have left since the beginning of this year, and over half of the full-time employees have already resigned or are preparing to resign. One entire group even left all at once, which gives you an idea of how astonishing the turnover rate is here.

There are truly many problems here—enough to write a thesis about. I suggest reading the reviews above carefully. The biggest source of chaos is the person in charge here, namely the chairperson’s daughter. Everyone privately calls her the “princess,” not only because she is the owner’s daughter, but also because her behavior is exactly that of a tower princess who knows nothing of the hardships of ordinary life and has no ability whatsoever.

The princess has extremely little ability to make decisions, yet every company decision must be approved by her before it can be carried out. Even worse, although she is the director, she only comes to work at the manufacturing center one or two days a week (starting close to noon). As a result, every decision, big or small, is endlessly delayed. When a response is finally received, it is usually still unclear, followed by an infinite cycle of waiting. Delaying, shirking responsibility, and framing others are everyday occurrences here. Over time, you stop wanting to accomplish anything; when something happens, you push it away if you can, because avoiding an extra task is better than creating an extra problem. After all, doing more only gives you more opportunities to make mistakes.

The princess does not like working in the Longtan office and almost never goes to the site to see the actual situation. Instead, she hides in her castle (office), so she learns about issues within the organization and even complaints from outside visitors by “listening” to others. As mentioned above, the princess is indecisive and therefore easily believes the slander spread by certain employees she favors. She uses this to judge other employees’ performance. Even if she does not know you at all or has never seen you, if you have just joined the company and accidentally crossed these people’s boundaries, they will whisper in the princess’s ear regardless of whether they are in the same department. The princess accepts everything they say without question. With arrows stuck in your back, you are powerless to fight back and can only wait to be dismissed after your probationary period. Of course, this probably is not much of a concern at the moment, since half the company has resigned and they are short-staffed.

Finally, here is an interesting anecdote. When the princess encounters an issue on which she truly cannot make a decision, she does not ask colleagues to analyze or discuss it further. Instead, she finds an employee who knows fortune-telling and has them draw Tarot cards to decide. The princess has drawn cards to decide things such as event pricing and whether an employee should stay. In addition, when supervisors interview job applicants, HR attaches a numerology chart to the end of the résumé to determine whether you are the kind of talent the company wants. So if, after reading this article, you still really want to apply, I suggest looking up your numerology numbers online first. If you do not have the numbers 1, 5, and 9, sorry—you do not need to submit your résumé.

Can't think of anything yet

The systems at this company are truly appalling. The company's managers are coasting toward retirement and relying on seniority, which hinders internal competition and innovation. If the company cannot give capable employees more opportunities and freedom, these people may leave, thereby affecting the company's development.

In short, this company needs to change the status quo and establish a healthier and more stable work environment. The company should do its utmost to safeguard employees' salaries and livelihoods, while providing capable employees with more opportunities and challenges. Only in this way can the company continue to develop and achieve success.

In addition to the issues mentioned above, this company has another serious problem: internal infighting. People who once performed well at the company can be unfairly smeared based on incomplete information after making even a minor mistake, and this phenomenon makes employees feel extremely unfairly treated.

Furthermore, some department managers do nothing but talk, without providing any substantive help or support. The presence of such managers makes employees feel helpless and unvalued. Worse still, if an employee offends such a manager, they may very well face retaliation, leaving the employee feeling frustrated and afraid.

In short, this company needs to take these issues seriously and resolve them, creating a just and fair work environment where employees feel respected and valued. The company should establish effective complaint and feedback mechanisms so that employees can safely raise problems and opinions, enabling the company to identify and resolve issues promptly. Only in this way can the company establish itself and succeed in a fiercely competitive market.

The off-season is really slow.

I don't know about the factory; all I know is that working on the front line at the manufacturing site is so busy that it wears you to death, and you constantly have crazy upper management looking for trouble!

Then you encounter coworkers who shirk their work, making it impossible to keep going—the capable ones work themselves to death 🙃

You can get by just by relying on connections, but unless you can keep coasting all the way to retirement, you won’t learn anything at all—and you’ll end up being corrupted and becoming worse yourself.

Every day is just about getting through one day at a time. Every project is all thunder and little rain: the managers are like clowns, only wanting to amuse the old boss and placate him. They go along with one another to deceive the old boss. Your conscience can’t accept it, and you make no progress yourself; all you learn is how to deceive yourself and deceive an old man. Project after project, product after product, process improvement after process improvement—you’ll see them still treading water after several years. (Sometimes they even move backward.....

Moreover, the company also looks like it’s close to falling apart. The factory and quality control report to the same supervisor, so when quality problems arise at the factory, quality control doesn’t really investigate. There are only endless meetings, with everyone passing the problem around, then jointly soothing the old boss and putting on a show for him. When something goes wrong next time, it will still be the same problem.

Quality control lacks the ability to identify the root cause and has no authority to make the factory improve its methods. R&D, planning, and design are also completely lacking in originality, since they can only listen to the old-manager’s orders. They operate at the very tail end of trends set by others, and their methods are extremely conservative, so the market response is naturally not very good either.

The extent to which they are out of touch with consumers can be illustrated by the fact that one ticket to the tourist factory costs NT$500. It’s truly astonishing. Although I really want to say, “Go and see for yourselves,” I kindly advise you not to go. (After all, it’s also in a very remote location........

Not one of the 13 reviews is positive......... Think carefully before deciding....

1. You get gifts on your birthday: lots of pencils, and occasionally even expired colored pencils, or one or two dozen pens of the same color. Even if you discover as soon as you open a pen that it has no ink, you can keep opening, exchanging, and opening more until you find one with ink. You definitely never have to worry about running out of ink. Great!

2. Team leaders and section managers frequently sexually harass people during meetings, and nothing happens. They don’t even spare young women who have just graduated from school. When they finish speaking, everyone bursts into laughter. It’s a company with a very harmonious atmosphere.

3. The company has an extremely high proportion of long-term employees, who will constantly inquire about your private life and offer advice. They proactively show you endless concern: why you’re not married yet, whether you’ve bought a car, how much you’ve saved, whether you’ve bought a house, whether you invest, how much rent you pay, how much you save each month, and so on. They guide you like your own elders. Very heartwarming.

4. There are truly far too many long-term employees. There are countless old managers who are already able to retire, but nobody is willing to leave. Newcomers run into obstacles everywhere, and nobody genuinely wants to teach them properly. They suppress anyone who stands out: the more capable you are, the more the veterans hold back. They tell you the wrong things, leaving you in an impossible position. On top of that, the grudges between departments run deep—after all, each manager has been there for 30 or 40 years. They only care about staying longer and receiving a higher pension. They don’t care about young disposable employees coming and going, and will push you out to step on land mines and die at any time. Every workday is thrilling. It’s great—like playing real-life Minesweeper.

5. Following from the above, although the chairman actively wants to reform and innovate, the long-term employees only ever want to muddle through each day. The company will never improve; it preserves its old-fashioned charm.

6. Also following from the above, a lot of information looks as though it has been digitized, but it is actually just for show. When you really need to look something up, you still have to search through old documents or ask the long-term employees. The long-term employees will also use this as an opportunity to bargain with you for some benefits, fostering closer relations, saying that telling you these things is “teaching you.” Very touching—teaching and learning from each other. Many key pieces of information and technologies are also kept by the long-term employees and have never been put into written form. The boss even thinks it’s impressive that the long-term employees can solve every problem whenever one arises. What a humorous company, so interesting.

7. HR is especially kind when you resign. They will tell you things like you shouldn’t insist on looking at the Labor Standards Act for everything. Company rules take precedence over the Labor Standards Act. The company will try to decide your resignation date for you directly, so you won’t have to waste extra energy on these boring matters when you leave. So considerate.

Personally, I think they’re all advantages and there aren’t really any disadvantages. If I had to force myself to name one, it would be that although it’s an old Taiwanese brand, it sells many China-made products—for example, Butter Lion~

Everyone, hurry up and submit your résumés!! Highly recommended~ I sincerely mean it~~

1. Lunch, tea, and water are provided. During special holidays, stationery benefits and bonuses for the three major festivals are offered.

2. The work pace is moderate.

3. Some supervisors—whether in terms of professionalism, character, or management—are capable, and their conduct and behavior can be clearly assessed.

4. Those with more experience, diverse perspectives, and strong logic are advised to learn more and evaluate the situation from multiple angles before deciding. Alternatively, set clear stop-loss points regarding compensation/year-end bonuses, benefits/overtime, supervisors’ character and professionalism, gender equality, promotion systems, talent development, departmental conditions, and so on.

1. Whether the company’s technology, management, market positioning, and core values can keep pace with today’s rapidly changing and fiercely competitive society is something to observe.

2. Slogans about reform and change mostly go no further than talk.

3. The actual content of some positions differs from what was discussed in the interview, leaving considerable room for role growth and pursuing a side career.

4. There are many senior employees, and their thinking is conservative.

The salary is quite good for a recent graduate or someone just starting out.

The manager almost exclusively invites attractive women to interviews.

You can judge for yourself whether the motives are innocent.

Employee management is poor, and work assignments are extremely strange.

Basically, more than half of the work falls outside one’s own area of responsibility.

When there is a problem and you need to contact the manager, they are almost impossible to find.

Projects that are submitted are almost always sent out without even being reviewed.

Only when there is a problem do they come back and start criticizing people for not having done things properly, and so on.

Whenever an employee resigns, it is turned into something resembling a witch hunt.

They constantly defame and verbally abuse former employees.

The goal is to brainwash the remaining employees into believing that the people who resigned were the ones at fault, rather than the department—or even the manager themselves.

The whole impression is that of an immature child who has never grown up.

Everything is someone else’s problem, never their own, and they even force others to see things the same way.

If you unfortunately join this department, you should be able to notice these signs very quickly.

When that happens, don’t hesitate to leave, lest staying too long result in you being vilified even after you resign.

Beautiful scenery

If you want to claim unemployment benefits,

you can come here,

because Lion Pencil lays people off

very readily.

You can choose whether to be laid off

or resign voluntarily.

If you choose to be laid off, the HR lady will scare you by saying it will remain on your record! (Who would believe that?)

If you are lucky!? enough to come work here,

you can quickly get to know the so-called

Longtan Plant’s Iron Triangle (L, H, T).

L’s specialty: Leadership skills aren’t the point; the point is my surname.

H’s specialty: Ability isn’t the point; what matters is whether someone likes you.

T’s specialty: Known as the occupational-safety killer; getting things done isn’t the point—it’s all about how you deal with people.

After all that nonsense,

let’s get to the point.

If you want to gain interview experience, you can,

but if you’re thinking of working here,

you’d better think it over first.

Come here as a stepping stone,

kill some time,

see how things go,

and look for a better job while you’re here—okay.

But if you want to make this your long-term workplace,

you might as well give up now.

At the Lion Longtan site I know,

from 2019 to 2020, at least around ten people were laid off,

and around five resigned because they couldn’t take it anymore.

(The above refers to staff positions.)

The occupational-safety department’s turnover rate and layoff rate: 100%%%%%%

The above experience was purely a dream, so please don’t take it seriously.

Almost no one manages or keeps an eye on you

Family-owned company

The Longtan plant manager, Mr. Li, has little decision-making ability.

He listens to the opinions of his “dear” at the plant about everything.

It makes it seem as though it is that “dear’s” company.

That is why there is infighting within the family and why cousins end up blocking one another.

If you are thinking of working here, think carefully.

Because colleagues on the same floor who report directly to the plant manager

often inexplicably disappear the very next day.

It has probably dealt with around 10 people over the past year.

The reasons are invariably that they are unsuitable,

or that their attitude is poor.

Do you think it is possible for all 10 of those people to be unsuitable?

Or perhaps they simply did not fit the plant manager’s preferences.

I am also anxiously looking for another job while staying here.

Good luck.

Let’s encourage one another.

1. There is water to drink

2. It probably won’t go under

1. The written test uses a bunch of professional theory questions to intimidate applicants (the kind that wouldn’t be used at all, even in a high-tech industry), but the actual job duties discussed in the interview are at the level of a general operator.

2. The supervisor’s expertise is clearly only at the level of a traditional industry, and the salary they can offer is as well.

3. It may relocate to Taoyuan in a few years.

Conclusion: If you don’t have high salary expectations and want stability, you can probably come take a look.

There is a cup of water to drink

At first, these reviews seemed fine, so I still went to the interview.

Only after going did I realize it was a waste of time. You really don't need to come at all!!

I interviewed for a quality control position at a factory in China.

The interview was in Banqiao. After I spent two hours completing the test, they told me that I would have to undergo training at the company in Banqiao for one or two years before being assigned to work in China.

I almost fainted when I heard that.

Then this isn't a position in mainland China at all.

It's a position in Taiwan, with development in mainland China as one possible option.

Neither the interview notice nor the two phone calls mentioned this.

Why didn't they say so earlier? Telling me only after I arrived was a complete waste of time.

Furthermore, I already have experience, and I felt that offering a salary of around 30K was far too exploitative.

Finally, I asked whether HR understood the culture and operating methods of mainland Chinese factories, and they didn't understand them either.

Then I really don't know what you were interviewing me for!?

Careless HR personnel who make people feel that they don't put in the effort can really leave a very poor impression of the company.

There is water to drink.

At first, these reviews seemed okay, so I still went to the interview.

Only after I got there did I realize it was a waste of time. You really don't need to come at all!!

I interviewed for a quality control position at a China plant.

The interview was in Banqiao. After I spent two hours taking a test, they told me that I would have to undergo training at the Banqiao company for one or two years before I could be assigned to work in China.

I nearly fainted when I heard that.

Then this isn't actually a China-based position at all.

It's a Taiwan-based position, with development in China as one possible option.

Neither the interview notice nor the two phone calls mentioned this.

Why not say so earlier? Telling me only after I arrived was a complete waste of time.

Moreover, I already have experience, yet offering a salary of around 30K felt far too exploitative.

Finally, I asked whether HR understood the culture and operating methods of factories in China, and they didn't understand them either.

Then I really don't know what exactly you were interviewing me for!?

HR staff who give people the impression that they don't take things seriously can really damage their company's image.

At least there was a cup of water to drink

I came to interview for position A, but they kept asking why I hadn't considered B or C. You can also learn a lot from B—if I wanted B, I would have applied for B in the first place! Moreover, the salary was below market rate: only 32 for someone with a master's degree and one year of experience.

I spent a lot of time taking tests during the interview, and ultimately received no response.

The company relies mostly on exports

Overall, it is fairly stable

Suitable for people who need a stable salary

The work content for design staff changes after a while

There is a discrepancy from the work content described in the original job application

Projects often go around in circles

Management has no understanding whatsoever of its own product’s target audience or positioning

A project is repeatedly extended indefinitely

Don’t expect to have anything to show for it once it is released

Design and drawing are basically just production artwork

Although the chairman is very proactive and wants to accomplish something

there is a lack of planning and integration capabilities underneath

At the grassroots level, it can be said that it is difficult to accomplish anything

It’s a company with quite a long history and a relatively stable internal organization. If you want to work regular hours, it’s a place worth recommending.

The pace of innovation is slow, and it’s difficult to change old ways of thinking.

Working hours are fixed, and even when there is overtime, it does not last too long. Overtime pay is provided.

The company’s managers have conservative mindsets. Although they say they want to change, they actually do not.

Overall competitiveness is low, so it is suitable if you want a relaxed job until retirement.