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Read the community guidelinesA few days after the interview, HR called to ask whether I could accept working overtime. My inner monologue: So there’s a lot of overtime???
About two weeks later, they called to say I got the job. The salary was 900,000 per year, excluding bonuses. Overtime could be claimed, and the overtime usually lasted until around 8. It wasn’t every day (really???). People online all say there’s a guaranteed 14 months, but the manager said there wasn’t. If I calculate it as 12 months, I’m OK with it.
HR was really unhelpful—when I asked questions, they didn’t know the answers, yet they loved bringing up the Labor Standards Act and saying everything followed it, blah blah. How would I know whether your company actually complies with the Labor Standards Act? Am I supposed to be a fortune-teller? After looking around online, it seems the salary is relatively high, but I still hesitated for a while....... Although the Chinese parent company is listed on the Taiwan stock exchange, based on my understanding of that kind of distorted mainland Chinese corporate culture, overtime is definitely going to be reported to the death. There’s a monthly limit of 46 hours, so I still feel the base salary is a little too low. But looking online, for a non-engineering-background newbie like me, this seems to be pretty acceptable.
Not much overtime
The job posting on the human resources website requires an EE RD with many years of experience in R&D and designing circuits for consumer electronics. However, the actual job is to help customers confirm whether their completed circuit designs have any issues when having them fabricated and tested at Sander. This job doesn't require an R&D background or many years of experience, does it? The manager is also very good at making big promises, and the benefits are just average.
Very little work, and it is very disorganized, with no clear division of responsibilities.
Because the company is backed by investment from mainland China, many benefits have already been eliminated. Taiwanese and mainland Chinese employees are in conflict; Taiwanese employees are treated like second-class workers, and some mainland Chinese colleagues are unfriendly toward others.