安普新股份有限公司

One pack of toilet paper per month.

The location is in Nangang Software Park, with convenient transportation, dining, and nearby amenities.

Flexible start time, up to 9:30 a.m.

There is a snack cabinet.

Don't trust HR...

Business trips to mainland China and Vietnam require working at the factory on Saturdays, but there is no compensatory leave upon returning to Taiwan.

The company basically has no electronic processes; everything is signed and circulated on paper.

One pack of toilet paper every month for wiping away your tears.

The year-end bonus paid in three installments is really hard to receive.

As soon as you mention resigning, even if you are still employed on the payment date, the company will not give it to you anyway.

After all, the contract does not say it is guaranteed. The year-end bonus is a favor from the company to you—if you get it, be grateful; if you do not, do not complain.

Everyone at this company really does their own thing. Loud talking, arguing—you name it, they do it. Several people spend work hours reading novels, watching sports, or slacking off.

Some departments are staffed to the brim: two or three people work on a single project, and some people are not responsible for any project at all. They have it incredibly easy.

The year-end bonus is split into three portions, with one-third paid every three months and the full amount paid out over six months.

If you are disobedient or resign early, it is forfeited.

Working overtime until you are exhausted and giving it your all is useless. Those who know how to manage people and say what sounds good get the top performance ratings.

You can only hire the kind of employees that match the kind of boss you have. Ultimately, the company lacks vision; as for the stock price, who knows.

One pack of toilet paper per month. Overtime meal allowance. As long as you want to join, you’re basically hired on the spot after the interview. Lots of people chat at work and have nothing to do.

Business trips require taking public transportation. Low travel allowances. Poor accommodation.

No compensatory leave for overtime. There is no compensatory leave for overtime during business trips or working Saturdays; even when returning to Taiwan during consecutive national holidays, you cannot make up the leave.

They pretend to offer birthday leave, then cancel it later. They’re very afraid that employees will take advantage of it.

The performance-review leave process is decided by the boss. The year-end bonus is split into three installments paid over six months—it’s really damn frustrating.

Chairman Huang has the final say. He often loudly berates people at the company. Everything has to be done immediately; as for molds, just start making them first—money is no object.

Getting things done isn’t important; you have to know how to manage people. Everyone from top to bottom is taught this way. It’s the mindset of a contract manufacturer that will never improve.

The atmosphere differs between departments: some departments have every perk imaginable, while others are extremely stingy.

If you follow the right person, you can get through your days securely, with someone shielding you from everything. If you follow the wrong person, everything gets dumped on you. All I can say is, if you want to join, remember to burn plenty of incense and pray you don’t get assigned to the land-and-sea division. Well, one advantage is that your salary is guaranteed to be adjusted every year. As for how much, you’ll find out after you join.

The year-end bonus, equivalent to two months’ salary, is paid in three installments.

There is no overtime pay; all overtime is converted into compensatory leave. How that compensatory leave can be used depends on the supervisor of each department.

Business trips are rather grueling. Days 1–6 are workdays, and even after returning, you cannot apply for Saturday overtime because business trips are supposed to follow the working hours of the “local area.” (The accommodation in Vietnam is at the level of China several decades ago, while the accommodation in China is actually quite nice.)

The office is noisy and chaotic, with a whole bunch of people chatting, surfing the internet, and slacking off. Those who seriously do their work are worked to death.

The year-end bonus is paid in three installments over six months, and if you submit your resignation, you won't receive it.

One department is even more bizarre. An employee-initiated resignation should be based on the date the employee submits their resignation, but a supervisor with no education and no proper management training says that the employee's resignation date is whatever they say it is, and even requires employees to leave early.

Brother Mei gives out one pack of free toilet paper per month

No overtime pay or compensatory leave for overtime

For business trips, you can only take public transportation; the food and accommodation are poor, and the travel allowance is lower than at other companies

Vietnam is quite remote; if you died there, probably no one would know.

There are deceitful HR personnel and deceitful managers (the Vietnam GM) who work together to put on a double act.

After their fraudulent tactics are exposed,

they start showing their true colors, calling the employee’s former company to smear them and leave the employee with nowhere to turn.

Specifically assigned abroad to lay off Taiwanese employees

The people there keep setting traps for new employees and laughing at them behind their backs, waiting to see how long the newcomers can hold out

A normal 14 months’ salary, with no bonuses; the starting salary is better than that of typical companies.

In 2018–2019, all the capable people left, both one after another and in groups. Later, R&D rapidly recruited a batch of junior employees from Macro X, most of whom had no real ability to contribute. After capable managers gradually resigned, people who had been around longer from other departments took over, but most lacked actual management skills.

The turnover rate is extremely high. For women, there are no obstacles to promotion as long as they know how to put on an act and curry favor with the boss. Those who work hard end up working themselves to death, while those who do not work but know how to put on an act get to take it easy.

The main pressure does not come from the work itself. There are no processes or systems, and no sense of cohesion. People privately push responsibility onto one another, while most managers only look out for themselves and make those below them take the blame.

The boss is the only person above everyone else, and whatever the boss says is absolute.

Recommendation:

If you want to make money, you can come. But if you have aspirations for career development, don’t come.

HR and managers use various methods to lure employees from competitors into joining the company, then dismiss them for various reasons, disrupting their careers in order to undermine and compete against competitors. Their tactics are extremely malicious.

The Vietnamese manager surnamed H uses various deceptive tactics to lure employees from competitors into joining the company, then dismisses them for various reasons, preventing them from returning to the industry in order to undermine competitors. The tactics are extremely malicious.

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13 months, often requires overtime but no overtime pay/compensatory leave, only a merit dinner, slaves, slaves, slaves

For friends accustomed to working in traditional industries without established systems, it’s worth giving it a try.