佳世達科技股份有限公司

It’s almost disappeared.

The boss spends all day setting traps for employees to fall into. When something goes wrong, the boss refuses to take responsibility and pushes it all onto subordinates; when employees do a good job, the boss takes the credit. Employees leave work after 10 p.m. every day, work overtime on holidays, and start working from the second day of the Lunar New Year—this has been going on for years. The boss habitually uses LINE and WeChat on holidays to require employees to prepare reports; even when taking leave to see a doctor or accompany a child taking the high school entrance exam, employees are required to join conference calls. Last year, senior employees were encouraged—and pressured—to retire, forcing them to leave. Chinese employees have learned to slack off and do nothing, and Taiwanese employees cannot manage them, so everything is assigned to the Taiwanese employees instead.

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Job responsibilities: Everything is pushed onto the software and firmware teams, while the mechanical, panel, and circuit aspects are disregarded and the software and firmware are prioritized first.

Salary: Not high, around 50K.

Working hours: When projects are being launched, it is often necessary to work past 10 p.m. Overtime on Saturdays and Sundays is common. On weekdays, overtime after 9 p.m. cannot be reported, and overtime on Sundays cannot be reported either. Overtime can only be recorded as compensatory leave, not paid as overtime.

Culture: Many of the older employees really like the factory-style culture of sarcastic and abusive remarks, especially toward newcomers. As a result, turnover among new employees is high, and those who stay are almost all somewhat older.

Additional note: Often, engineers are executing a project, but the supervisor cannot decide what to do and is also afraid that the information engineers provide to the client will affect other projects. At the same time, the engineers do not have the authority to decide what to do, so everyone ends up working overtime together.

The food is pretty good.

As a newcomer, you have to take the initiative to participate in many activities.

People: If you run into an RD, you’ll be overshadowed.

Things: Whatever the veterans don’t want to do, you’ll have to take over.

Equipment: Only desktop computers are provided; figure out the meeting arrangements yourself.

Weird

I could talk about them for three days and three nights and still not finish

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The company culture is very poor, the systems are problematic, managers have terrible attitudes, it is very difficult to take leave, the pay is very low, overtime is forced, the promotion system is not transparent, and employee turnover is very high!

Do not join this company under any circumstances, or you will regret it!

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1. Departments and units are very good at passing the buck and pretending nothing is happening.

2. New employee training and education within the unit: 0%.

3. Senior employees bully newcomers and only make sarcastic remarks after they make mistakes.

4. There is a high chance of having to work on Saturdays and Sundays.

5. Long working hours, and overtime cannot be reported.

6. Salary and benefits are average, with very little room for raises.

7. The Labor Department’s records show quite a few violations by the group.

The company has a strong reputation.

The supervisor explicitly stated that there is no overtime pay, but there will be a lot of overtime because computer monitor products have short lifecycles and there are also a large number of projects. This position requires independently coordinating and collaborating with other departments, attending meetings with major clients, and frequently traveling to mainland China for prototyping. Just hearing about it makes me feel exhausted @@.

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The managers of Monitor’s organization are very good at squeezing employees. There may be a hundred reasons to exploit employees: For the sake of growth, you must work overtime and study harder; to meet customers’ high expectations and demands, you must work late into the night to do everything as well as possible; so the PM won’t lose their temper, you must work hard to debug and complete the project perfectly—perhaps you may even have to come in and work overtime on Saturdays and Sundays. You might think that, since the overtime hours are so long, there should at least be overtime pay, right? Don’t be ridiculous. Qisda is a habitual violator of the Labor Standards Act and basically has no such thing as overtime pay. If the company saves NT$3,000–4,000 in overtime pay per person each month, with several thousand employees, it can save nearly NT$10 million a month, or NT$100 million a year. Even when the labor authorities come to inspect every year, they only issue a fine of a few tens of thousands of dollars as a token gesture. If saving on overtime pay is so profitable, why pay it?

As for bonuses and performance bonuses, whenever bonuses are distributed each year, they always say that everyone should endure these difficult times together and not take too much this year, and that the company will pay more when it makes big profits next year. But when next year comes, the managers still say the same thing. Year after year passes, so that future never arrives. In short, the level of exploitation is one hundred percent; benefits and bonuses are cut wherever possible. If you have a tendency to enjoy being abused or enslaved, you are welcome to submit your résumé!

Pros

The hiring manager showed great regard for the candidate. The questions were fairly in-depth, including technical analysis and long-term perspectives on projectors and panels, as well as an effort to understand the motivation for changing jobs. During the process, they were also generous in sharing information about the BU’s systems and job responsibilities. Overall, the interview process was quite pleasant.

Cons

The factory facilities clearly have a long history, and the testing equipment is also quite old. From the security guards to the reception staff, everyone seemed quite senior, so it did not really feel like being “received,” although I would not say they were impolite.

The salary is not high.

Applied-for position: PM

Salary: After comprehensive consideration, approximately NT$48,000–52,000 per month (master’s degree from National Chung Cheng University / 2 years of PM experience in a related industry / TOEIC 885)

Annual salary: Guaranteed 14 months; bonuses depend on operating performance (but this is a sunset industry, so......)

No overtime pay

1. The supervisor was very polite and willing to share the company’s and the position’s future plans.

2. The company location is relatively convenient in terms of transportation. I also heard that shuttle buses are available to transport employees from other areas to and from work.

1. During the interview, you first go to a building at the back of the facility specifically used for testing. The receptionist in charge was not friendly and often spoke in a condescending manner. The testing equipment was also outdated. When problems occurred, she not only failed to provide assistance but also blamed the interviewee.

2. Interview times are only available on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday afternoons, which is not very convenient for people who are currently employed.

3. The company’s exterior looks quite old, and the interior of the aforementioned testing building also has a weathered feel. According to the supervisor, employees currently use their own laptops, which indicates that the company does not provide laptops.

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Last year, I received an interview invitation from the Medical Imaging Department of the Hsinchu Healthcare Business Group. The manager, surnamed Yao, notified me by phone the following week that I had been hired, but then there was no further news. When I called to inquire, they only shifted the responsibility to HR... and told me to keep waiting. After two months, they said they wanted to look for someone again. No integrity!

The work atmosphere is good, and colleagues get along well.

Want to leave work at five... Wake up! That’s only possible for department managers or certain brand account teams.

Anyway, the department manager isn’t the one doing the projects. Their job is just to keep clicking Send/Receive in Outlook every day,

then send emails going back and forth with “Dear” or “Hi,” and all they know how to do is highlight the vendor, without offering any constructive opinions.

When you’re assigned a high-end model, being able to leave at 10 p.m. already feels like a blessing from a previous life. By then, the manager has long since gone home to get ready for bed! As soon as you arrive at work the next day, they chase you for progress again—who cares what time you worked until the night before, or how hard you worked? You can work yourself to death, but someone else still gets the A+ roast chicken!

Bonuses and profit sharing are about the same as for people with normal working hours, and your raise might even be smaller than theirs, because you’re not one of the favorites.