明台產物保險股份有限公司

Unexpectedly

The person responsible for the car insurance system doesn't even understand the system themselves. All they know how to do is evade responsibility and shift the blame to the outsourced team. No wonder the turnover rate is high—even the outsourced staff want to leave.

Beautiful on the outside, S headquarters

1. Overtime approval involves endless questioning, and employees are asked to take compensatory leave instead of receiving overtime pay whenever possible.

2. Different departments (teams) are each pursuing their own interests and lack cohesion. “One Ming-Tai” is merely a slogan. Team collaboration is inefficient; people shift blame when problems arise, focus on people rather than issues, and apply double standards everywhere. IFRS is a classic example that exposes this.

3. A number of employees with no ability have held deputy manager-level positions for years. Their work capabilities are inferior to those of senior specialists, yet there is no sign of underqualified deputy managers being dismissed or demoted. The same applies to some managers.

4. The pay raise is so low that it is laughable. Anyone considering an interview should think carefully about whether an annual raise of less than NTD 600 meets their expectations—it is downright insulting to employees. KPIs have also been unfair for years. You can be harshly criticized by other departments yet receive good performance ratings year after year; you can work yourself to the bone and sacrifice your health, only to be transferred to another department. Pathetic!

5. System problems are becoming more and more frequent, the quality of outsourced vendors is getting worse and worse, and project after project is delayed. Endless, pointless project meetings waste employees’ time and even cut into lunch breaks. What is the point of gathering a group of managers, team leaders, team members, and vendors for meetings lasting more than an hour and a half? Can’t you let frontline employees get their work done properly?

None! A waste of time—the HR department is unprofessional, and the company has no integrity! Terrible!

This company is truly unethical. After issuing me a written job offer, HR said they would arrange an additional time to discuss the salary. Instead, they internally submitted an approval request with a fixed salary of NT$30,000 without discussing my salary expectations with me at all. I ended up waiting a month for this company’s offer, only to find that there was a gap between my expected salary and what the company offered. The company later backed out and was afraid to hire me, telling me to look for another company myself. I had already completed all the onboarding documents requested in the company’s email, yet they then told me not to report to work. Absolutely terrible. Anyone interviewing with this company should be extremely cautious—do not wait too long for this stingy company.

I had a brief chat with a few longtime colleagues. The company is pretty good, with good pay and benefits, plenty of leave, and fair promotion opportunities. I don't know what the hell all those comments are complaining about. If you don't like the job, then leave. What can all that bullshit change? If you want overtime pay, go apply for it. If you want to move up, request a transfer to a headquarters unit. These are such simple issues—everyone has at least a bachelor's degree; is it really that hard to understand? What do you mean, older employees are pushing work onto others? I can only say that's not the case. There are plenty of highly capable longtime employees. Those of you with less than ten years of tenure keep talking, but you haven't even met your performance KPIs. What do you have to compare with others? You just keep taking the company's money while badmouthing it behind its back. You'd better just get lost.

It would be best if all the young people left. A bunch of young people who only know how to complain are completely useless. Think first about what you've actually accomplished.

All you do is blame others—no wonder you're part of the strawberry generation.

The company is great—slacking off and coasting can still make you an outstanding employee. What a wonderful workplace!

As long as you cling to the Japanese employees and devote yourself wholeheartedly, you can get promoted. Remember to devote yourself completely!

Managers treat us like family, so when something happens, of course subordinates should shoulder the blame. How could we let managers who treat us like family shoulder it?

When cutting year-end bonuses, just cut ours. How could we cut those of the assistant managers, managers, and executives?

Remember, managers are great people—gods, even. When something goes wrong, those below them should shoulder the blame. That’s the way it is.

With such a wonderful company, aren’t you going to join us? Welcome to Mingtai!

How could such a wonderful company have any shortcomings?

The newly appointed manager of the IT department recognizes talent wherever it is: letting an employee who spends all day berating colleagues from other departments over the phone with offensive language, and who says, “I didn’t work on this before” whenever a problem arises, be named an Outstanding Employee of the Year. This gives all employees unlimited hope of winning this annual award.

It is truly, truly, truly, truly a waste to have such an outstanding employee responsible for only one already-stable system.

A system related to auto insurance or sales operations would certainly allow this colleague to demonstrate their ability to eliminate ineffective requirements, meeting management’s expectations of reducing costs!

The manager of the head office’s auto insurance department is the idol I admire most in my life.

Whatever he does, he always handles it personally. He would absolutely never put his name on something and then refuse to do the work himself, leaving it to rank-and-file employees in other departments.

He would absolutely never, after making a mistake himself and being promoted, immediately try to retaliate against people who regularly worked overtime—including working overtime during long holidays and the Lunar New Year—to help the company verify data and shoulder the burden, thereby preventing the company from being fined.

Nor would he ever, when one of his subordinates made a mistake, spread rumors, and then immediately join forces with superiors to frame, scapegoat, smear, spread rumors about, and send anonymous denunciations against them.

The manager is the idol I admire most in my life.

I believe that with such outstanding abilities and noble character, he will certainly become an assistant vice president, rise to vice president, be promoted directly to general manager, and become chairman.

As the saying goes, “If you have never entered the auto insurance department, your time at Mingtai was in vain.”

If any of you join Mingtai, you must join the great auto insurance department.

When you see the manager, you must bow down in worship, express gratitude, and praise him. To witness a perfect person is truly a blessing and fortune cultivated in a previous life.

Such an outstanding manager should be promoted to general manager immediately, or even become the president of the parent company; otherwise, it would truly be a waste of his talents.

None

Too many

There are a bunch of shitty positions in every department

Understaffed—one person does the work of three

No overtime pay

An overtime culture

Leaving work on time is considered wrong

High turnover rate

The company’s senior executives just sit back and collect their salaries

They only chant slogans and take no action

Japanese managers have the final say

Salaries are not high, and employee benefits are constantly being cut

Completely not OK

In short, if you’re looking to work in the insurance industry, go somewhere else…

The benefits are pretty good.

The HR department here is really bizarre.... I strongly advise everyone to make sure you have actually received an offer before resigning. Don't trust a verbal offer from HR—they may even slash your salary to the bone. It's really unprofessional.

High salary, good benefits, short working hours, fast promotion, solid training, and harmonious relationships among colleagues.

The supervisors in the auto insurance department are excellent. They never take credit or shift blame, nor do they ask junior staff in other departments to handle work they cannot finish or are incapable of doing

(or work they never did in the first place).

They certainly would never directly send an anonymous complaint accusing junior staff in another department of not doing their work properly while mocking them,

only for it to turn out that the problem was actually caused by their own department.

The company is great, and I will continue working hard. I hope that one day I will be promoted to manager and then become an assistant vice president.

For such a perfect company, how could there possibly be any shortcomings?

It has been over two years since my interview and joining Mingtai. During the interview, I met a very good recruiter who was very NICE. One major reason I decided to work for this company was because of him. Unfortunately, he recently left the company. I am truly grateful for the help he gave me back then, and he also had a very good reputation among his colleagues.

Mingtai's salary is slightly above average in the industry. In recent years, the year-end bonus has been more than four months' salary, which is quite good, and the benefits are generally very good.

Activities such as sports days and barbecues are great for young people.

The evaluation process is not transparent.

The executives are too old, and the company cannot accept new ideas.

The company cannot retain good talent.

Some head-office departments only make things difficult for the business units. They have little combat capability externally but are very aggressive internally.

It's a large company with an impressive image.

You need to stay healthy to be able to work here for long.

Otherwise, once your supervisor finds out that you have a related illness, especially a chronic one,

they will “treat you differently,” and in the end, try to force you to leave!! Absolutely despicable!

The leave policy is better than that of its peers.

The position in the initial interview was completely different from the one in the second interview.

The job responsibilities were also different.

Whether you get hired depends on whether HR feels like calling you.

The attitude of this Japanese company is nothing to write home about.

Ridiculous.

A large company with an impressive presence and a pleasant environment.

1. Unprofessional and impolite internal staff:

The day before the second interview, which had been scheduled in advance, I received a call from a woman at the company. In a rather unpleasant tone, she questioned me: “XXX, you know you have an interview scheduled with us today, right?”

I replied: “Huh? Sorry, it’s not today—it’s the day after tomorrow.” (??? Endless question marks in my mind ???)

The woman said: “But HR said it was today!!”

I said: “HR and I scheduled it for the day after tomorrow over the phone, and the interview notification I subsequently received by email clearly stated that the date was the day after tomorrow.”

The woman said: “But our supervisor has already set aside time for today!”

Me: “Uh... but we scheduled it for the day after tomorrow...” (Thinking: Are you serious? Do you not understand plain English!? I rolled my eyes countless times.)

The woman said: “Oh...okay, then I’ll tell our supervisor again.”

She hung up on me immediately after saying that.

What the...? Even if your internal staff simply miscommunicated, why misunderstand someone else and not even say a word of apology or “sorry”? Instead, I was the one who said sorry = = My impression of the company dropped instantly. But there was nothing I could do—job seekers are in the weaker position, so I still had to obediently go to the interview QQ

2. The job responsibilities mentioned in the first and second interviews differed enormously:

I’m too lazy to go into detail. In short, the main duties described in the first interview might have been A+B, but in the second interview they suddenly became A+B+C+D. Most outrageous of all, it turned out to be a management position!!?? These are important details that should have been made clear during the first interview, yet they were not mentioned at all......

By the end, I no longer wanted to continue with the interview and only wanted to go home.

They completely wasted my time. On top of that, after being irritated by that woman the day before, I blew up on the spot and gave the three interviewers in front of me a piece of my mind.

I could not feel any of the professionalism or rigor they claimed to have as a Japanese company—there was only one word for it: ridiculous!!!