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Read the community guidelinesYou can learn things because they are seriously understaffed and don’t have the capacity to train you gradually, so they are very willing to let you take ownership and do things on your own.
At some point, the company will present you with a choice between resigning and being stationed on the mainland.
It is not impossible to suddenly receive a request on a holiday to submit a new report that very evening. Needless to say, the same goes for after-hours on weekdays.
The annual salary you were promised may not necessarily be paid; if you want to negotiate, be sure to have it specified in the contract.
The starting salary for fresh R&D graduates is 30K.
There is a dormitory (if you live more than 40 km from the company, you only need to pay 3K).
The office environment is fairly decent, although it leaks badly whenever it rains.
*The company does contract manufacturing, but factory management is chaotic, so its cost structure is often far worse than that of the factories in Guangdong. Document management is
careless as well, so sometimes a project comes to a standstill when the person previously responsible for it leaves.
*The latest news I heard is that all employees were placed on unpaid leave and transferred to China to open accounts and receive their salaries in RMB.
As a result, even though they clearly work in Taiwan, they have no labor relationship with the company.
*The computers provided by the company are extremely poor; it is practically impossible to work with complex files.
Everyone brings their own computer, but the company will not let you install its licensed software.
If you install pirated software to do your work, the company will even ask you to sign a statement accepting full responsibility for the consequences.
*Part of the company’s R&D capability consists of buying competitors’ products, stripping them for parts, and then
asking designers to draw a casing for them to exhibit at trade shows. They even send these machines to customers—truly audacious.
*Although most of the employees are young, the company culture makes everyone seem dispirited and lifeless.
*A presentation must be held once every three months. A lot of work is often produced at the last minute merely for management and shareholders to see, disrupting the development process.
Applied design, and although they initially said the offer was confirmed, two weeks later they changed their tune and said the manager wanted to replace me!!! Terrible experience!!