Big-brand halo: Fujifilm is a well-known Japanese brand, which provides a certain boost to your external résumé.
Many customer resources: There is a stable base of large corporate clients, with many business development opportunities and high average order values.
Complete systems (on the surface): There is a certain SOP, CRM, and performance-management framework.
Solid sales training: New-hire training and client-visit techniques follow standardized procedures, allowing newcomers to quickly grasp the fundamentals of sales.
Comprehensive product line: From OA and document management to copying and printing solutions, the offerings are highly integrated, making solution-based sales easier to discuss.
Some managers are willing to mentor: In certain departments, more experienced managers help newcomers become familiar with the environment (this is not a universal situation).
However, choose your interviewer/manager carefully. If your future manager is old-school, don’t join.
Labor Standards Act: No one enforces it for you.
Sales accountability system: You are required to arrive at work on time and clock in on time, but after clocking in, you are expected to return to your seat and continue working.
Meeting culture: Meetings every day~~
Old-school managers: One plays the good cop and one the bad cop; policies change according to their mood. For example, a policy is issued requiring all employees to comply with not coming into the office and visiting clients, but I (the manager) don’t have to follow it because my clients are important.
Corporate culture: Ability comes second. As long as you are willing to obey and flatter your manager, you don’t need to worry about performance reviews or sales results.
Reporting culture: During meetings, managers only harshly criticize people, without providing conclusions or practical actions.
If you have the stamina and tolerance for everything above, welcome aboard—you will definitely get to experience what a terrible manager is like.
Taoyuan branch: If you have an interview, keep your eyes wide open. Good managers are few and far between, while the bad managers occupy those positions.
Finally, based on my experience, I think Fujifilm is a good company, but it has been ruined by bad managers. If you are interested in joining, skip the Taoyuan branch option.
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1. A standard Japanese company... Before joining, I thought this company had a very good image, but after just a few days in the office, I discovered that there were an incredible number of problems.
2. Supervisors only look at results and fail to see the areas that need improvement among their subordinates.
3. It is just a sales company with no technical capabilities. If you want to join in a technical position, be mentally prepared.
4. This experience has made me decide that I will never touch any product bearing this company’s brand again.
I work in the field. The work is flexible; everyone handles their own responsibilities, and when it’s time to clock out, you can leave. The colleagues are easy to get along with.
The company is very large and offers year-end bonuses, so it can serve as a stepping stone.
The salary is low—basically just the base pay. The male manager next to me is overly controlling; besides work, he also lectures people about their character.
The fieldwork aspect depends on how well each person adapts.
Moreover, the company’s business as a whole has been gradually shrinking. Although it still has its largest business—selling semiconductor manufacturing materials to TSMC—another area is the photocopier business. However, without growth among large companies and with the technology no longer continuing to advance, in the current poor economic environment, people will basically choose cheaper machines or ones with comparable technology.
Before I left, we were basically just dismantling and removing machines.
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Employees have to pay out of pocket for company events (including venue rental and the like). This is the first company I've seen like this. Is this legal?
Good company location
1. The interview process was extremely long because it included tests on logic, images, connecting dots, speed, and so on—tests that most companies generally do not have.
2. There was a woman administering the test (explaining the questions), who sat directly across from me and watched me write my answers...
3. I don't know whether I performed poorly or my salary expectations did not match the company's range, but the male manager wearing high-waisted pants asked only a few questions before ending the interview. His attitude was not very NICE either. (Later, I happened to have a friend who had worked at this company, in a different team within the same department. They said this male manager was really not OK and was not very polite to his female subordinates.) Not being hired was probably for the best!
The interior décor and the employees I saw passing by gave me the impression that it was an old-fashioned and oppressive company, rather than a vibrant one.
The above describes an interview experience from some time ago, so I am not sure whether things have changed recently.
The company location is good, and the female hiring manager was fairly professional during the interview.
The male HR manager had an extremely poor attitude. Because I had a few relatively short-term jobs in the past, he kept pressing me about the reasons for leaving. If he cares so much about interviewees having had several short-term jobs, he shouldn't invite people to interview in the first place—it's a waste of everyone's time!
No advantages
HR aggressively pressed me about my second-highest educational qualification and had an extremely poor attitude.
Pros
Convenient transportation, a five-minute walk from MRT Taipei Arena Station.
The work is very easy to coast through. A lot of people have no idea what's going on, so it's easy to bluff your way through.
Also, if you go out to buy lunch at 11:30, you'll often see that some people have already finished eating and come back.
The three traditional-festival and birthday bonuses aren't much, but basically, the benefits that should be there are provided—usually NT$1,000 in cash or gift vouchers.
1. The company relies heavily on fresh graduates; on average, one-third leave within a year.
2. Managers are basically all from sales backgrounds, including those in non-sales departments such as HR.
3. The HR director very frequently walks around saying that they are extremely bored and have nothing to do.
4. When you resign, you may be threatened with having to return your performance bonuses, and you are also required to personally train veteran employees to use new equipment; otherwise, they won't let you leave.
5. Taking advantage of young employees' limited experience, the company operates on the fringes of the law, assuming you won't dare sue. If you actually do, the company will immediately settle by paying compensation.
6. The information systems are unbelievably terrible, like something from the year 2000.
7. The head of the IT department has over 15 years of tenure and earns around NT$80,000–89,999 per month. Whenever there's a computer problem, they tell you to restart it, while also complaining to you about how exhausted they are.
8. The company is very proud of its training programs, but the content is basically teaching you to cross the street by stopping at red lights and going at green lights, as well as greeting older people when you see them.
9. Employees are also required to perform at the year-end banquet. The awkwardness level is 87%, and the company likes to objectify women, asking female colleagues to accompany clients in drinking.
10. The extra prizes at the year-end banquet range from NT$500 to NT$100, with some even worth NT$50—extremely stingy.
11. The year-end bonus is approximately two months' salary; it is no longer four months.
12. Performance bonuses are paid to you in installments—24, 36, or 60 installments—so to receive the full bonus, you have to stay until all payments are completed.
13. The bonus system operates like a pyramid scheme, so managers will keep hounding you because they can sit back and collect your bonuses.
None
Basically, the company’s bonuses are visible but impossible to receive, because the company has an unwritten rule that when a customer assigned to you has outstanding payments, your bonus will not be paid until you clear the customer’s debt in full.
Also, because customers of employees who previously left the same department are assigned to you not long after you join the company, many unexplained outstanding payments end up being counted against you. Then your bonus gets held up, and you have to start chasing payments from customers you never personally handled, urging them to pay.
And, due to what seems to be an issue at some level of the company or with the system, customers’ long-overdue payments often suddenly come to light, with you being told that the customer failed to pay an invoice from a particular year and month. The customer has long forgotten about it and therefore will not acknowledge it.
In the end, if you want to clear the balance, you can only pay out of your own pocket.
The person conducting the assessment had a good attitude.
1. The player ran out of battery during the assessment, so the questions kept cutting in and out.
2. After completing the assessment, I was taken to the waiting area and left waiting for over an hour for the interviewer.
3. At the beginning, the female interviewer asked me to introduce myself. She then gave a very brief and vague explanation of the job responsibilities. After asking me some personal questions, the interviewer wanted me to leave and seemed eager to end the interview. The entire interview felt like it lasted no more than ten minutes.
It felt like the entire afternoon was wasted waiting.
Although it is a sunset industry, the basic benefits are still provided. In addition, there are many opportunities for online learning and meetings with overseas colleagues, which also gives you a chance to practice your English.
Most of the colleagues are older employees, and the turnover rate among younger employees is extremely high. One week after I joined, our section manager required me to memorize all the hiring terminology (more than 300 terms). I later discovered that she did not know most of the terminology herself; she simply wanted to make things difficult for me.
The manager may not necessarily teach you anything. For example, our section manager just gave me some Excel files and materials provided by vendors and told me to study them on my own. Some formulas in them were incorrect, some information was missing, and some data had to be researched online. After I asked questions twice, she immediately humiliated me, then continued telling me to study on my own, followed by more humiliation—an endless cycle.
When a manager above you does not like you, her colleagues and colleagues from other departments will also dislike you (after all, they have worked together for more than a decade). I gradually came to understand why the turnover rate among new employees was so high.
The department manager clearly knew that some of the senior employees under her had problems, but still pretended not to notice. When I resigned, the department manager gave me an additional week of paid leave as compensation.
In addition, the company is often reported by its employees for violating the Labor Standards Act and has been fined several million dollars. If similar situations occur in the future, those fines may be deducted from the year-end bonuses or other bonuses of all employees. So... evaluate things carefully before joining.
The salary and year-end bonus are very stable, totaling approximately 14 months’ pay.
The internal processes are cumbersome, with a bunch of systems that haven’t been integrated. Policies often change from day to day. The company lacks cohesion, and many longtime employees are just waiting to retire and like to shirk responsibility. The enthusiasm of younger employees is also easily worn down completely...
The environment is clean and pleasant, and the staff are friendly.
During the interview, I don't know what the male manager was acting so arrogant about.
He was doing his own thing
and not listening at all.
Easygoing
Enjoy the thrill of stagnating new resources
The HR person was nice.
First, there was a written test covering logic and visual reasoning, and even the speed of drawing dots. I thought I was signing up for an aptitude-test prep class... Then I had to wait another hour before finally meeting the marketing manager.
Top-notch company, ha-ha.
I worked here in sales for two years...
My main responsibilities involved selling office multifunction printers and commercial output equipment.
Here are the pros and cons of the position:
Pros
1. There is a base salary: the starting salary is NT$28,000, rising to NT$30,000 after six months. You still receive the base salary even if you make no sales. Commission is calculated based on the sales amount for each quarter; including the base salary, the monthly average can reach around NT$65,000.
2. Two days off per week; public holidays are off.
3. The basic year-end bonus is four months of full salary.
4. Flexible working hours and plenty of autonomy; you do not have to stay in a boring office.
5. You are assigned a fixed quota of existing customers, with only a small amount of cold-calling and new-business development.
6. Seasonal and birthday bonuses; NT$150 for employee movie outings and NT$5,000 in employee travel vouchers.
7. Each employee is provided with a brand-new Dell laptop and a Sony phone, including 5 GB of data and NT$300 per month in call credit.
8. More than one month of training is held at the Wugu Training Building. Meals and accommodation are provided, and you continue to receive your salary.
9. Fuel allowance: NT$4,500 per month for cars and NT$1,500 per month for scooters.
10. New-vehicle purchase subsidy: NT$20,000 for cars and NT$12,000 for scooters.
Cons
1. The manager is a real piece of work: they flip-flop constantly, say nice things to your face, and stab you in the back.
2. There is intense internal infighting and undercurrents everywhere—a power-struggle game. Great.
3. The manager is obsessed with sales targets. Every day there are meetings to chase performance and questions about that day’s customer-visit schedule, and so on.
4. Long working hours; working 10–12 hours a day is routine. (It is a responsibility-based system, and overtime is unpaid.)
5. A 47-year-old company that is traditional and conservative, unwilling to change outdated practices.
6. The company’s system is unbelievably frustrating; everyone who has used it says it is terrible.
7. Internal administrative staff love passing the buck. They always make it clear that the responsibility is not theirs, or else they disappear and stop answering calls.
8. They often organize extremely boring activities and treat employees like dogs to order around.
9. Women are objectified. At year-end banquets and spring dinners, female colleagues are told to sit beside senior executives for company.
Summary:
You can make a decent amount of money.
It is quite suitable for fresh university graduates and offers a chance to observe workplace culture.
While visiting customers, you can also gain a general understanding of how businesses in different industries operate.
There are branch offices throughout Taiwan.
Anyone who is not afraid of dying is welcome to join~