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They use an online test as an excuse to have interviewees work on projects they are currently working on. Whether or not they hire you, it’s free labor.
Overall, there’s not much good to say. When you leave, the contract states that you cannot speak badly about the company.
So I don’t really have anything to say~
I’ll leave it at that.
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I'm posting this for a friend.
My friend went there, and on the very first day I quickly told them to quit.
Then, after 11 p.m., they still sent work-related matters for you to deal with.
Absolutely awful.
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A work experience from a few years ago. Fortunately, I wasn't successfully brainwashed.
The boss's title was COO, and the chairman was his father.
The boss's office was directly behind the employees' seats. He loved watching employees' every move through the glass and smoking in the office.
Yes, that's right—smoking indoors. “I'm the boss, so why can't I smoke indoors?”
The father and son loved requiring employees to run the company as if it were their own, and often used Ma Yun quotes from the internet to motivate employees.
They often said that the company wasn't a cram school: the company hired employees to solve problems, and employees had to figure everything out for themselves.
They often used the year-round, never-closing news website to encourage employees to get moving.
Each editor had to publish 20 articles every workday, 15 articles each weekend day, plus handle client projects.
There were no dispatched reporters or photographers; the articles and photos were simply taken from the internet.
Online news has a high risk of being misinterpreted—the “spectacular scene that caused a sensation on PTT” was a case in point.
In addition to producing content for the website,
we also had to write advertorials, create Knowledge+ content, manage the company's and clients' fan pages, and, despite having a design department, make graphics for the editors ourselves.
When a client held a press conference, everyone had to turn out to set up, inspect, and dismantle the venue, and act as receptionists to guide guests to their seats.
Every employee had to post articles daily to 20 Taiwanese forums and 10 mainland Chinese forums, redirecting traffic through links and taking screenshots.
The assistant manager required us to use our own phones' mobile data when posting, to avoid the company's IP being blocked, and we were not allowed to do it during work hours.
We often received urgent assignments just before the end of the workday. Usually, upper management delayed things until the deadline, then required junior employees to finish them before leaving.
If you were called in to work overtime at short notice on a holiday, refusing would get you harassed.
There was no overtime pay. There was a deduction system, with the money put into a “public fund” for afternoon tea.
Not turning off the air conditioning: 200. Not turning off the lights: 200. Not bringing your access card: 200. Losing your access card: 500. Afternoon tea, haha.
There was a compensatory leave system. Work started at 9 a.m., but I had seen senior employees arrive as late as 11.
It turned out that compensatory leave was a “blessing” granted only after working overtime past midnight the previous day.
Leaving on time would draw scrutiny.
When the boss saw you packing up, he would start asking questions and discussing things—meaning various delay tactics.
Meetings were not scheduled during work hours, supposedly because they didn't want to delay everyone's progress.
It was no big deal for meetings to run past 8 p.m. Had you made personal plans after work? “What does that have to do with me?”
Messages on LINE had to be answered within 30 minutes, and phone calls had to be returned within 30 minutes. Everyone was required to change their LINE nickname to their real name, so no one would be unsure who was who.
There were gift boxes at the three major festivals and performance bonuses. How was performance calculated? According to the sales staff, every boss had their own yardstick.
Each month, 0.x% of our pay was deducted as a welfare fund.
Only the cheap snacks that had been offered at the first and fifteenth of the lunar month were available to eat. Don't ask what people of other faiths were supposed to do; no one forced you to offer incense, and if you didn't eat, so what?
Occasionally, they would buy extra potato chips and then take credit, saying they were worried employees might be hungry and had kindly bought everyone some snacks.
They claimed that there were no companies outside with such broad capacity, and expected everyone to treat the company like home and give it their all.
The job listing said “salary negotiable.”
Actual pay: 2yk+1k≦25k; the 1k was available only with perfect attendance and no lateness.
The base salary was (2y)k−1k8, with 1k8 as a meal allowance.
Each month, you could be late by 10 minutes. After that, 10 was deducted for every minute.
Accounts were settled at the end of the month, and salaries were paid on the 10th; if it fell on a holiday, payment was delayed.
Oh, right—the thing they were most proud of was that salaries had never been paid late.
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The interview process was extremely long; after I finished filling out the information, I was left waiting for a long time. When the process reached the point of speaking with the boss, they actually asked me to wait for a second notification because a client had arrived. This was very disrespectful to the interviewee.
The frontend technologies used there are very outdated. During the practical test, I was only allowed to use Notepad++ or Notepad to write code. Before the test, they did not clearly explain all the required functionality. Only after the test did they point out that our example had certain features and ask why I had not implemented them. They also made simple JavaScript operations sound as if they were extremely sophisticated.....All applicants, please think twice.
A company that operates a content farm
Extremely disrespectful of professionalism; the interview process is cumbersome
A tremendous waste of interviewees’ time
The worst company I’ve interviewed with so far...
The owner and his wife are incredibly ridiculous.
On a new employee’s first day,
they don’t show up until the afternoon.
They leave the person waiting there.
The turnover rate is extremely high.
And it’s a responsibility-based system with no clear working hours or overtime pay.
The job before the interview and the job after the interview are completely different.
The owner speaks disrespectfully to people and loves showing off.